IT WAS the Russian dissident Evgeny Zamyatin who wrote that “heretics are the only remedy against the entropy of human thought.” Zamyatin would be surprised
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SOMETHING FASCINATING is happening in Israel. The Holy Land is seeing what must be the most unholiest of alliances being made in the Knesset. Right
ALEXANDER ADAMESCU (pictured) is to be extradited from the UK to Romania, on an accusation of having, with his late father Dan Adamescu, bribed judges
THE MAIDEN SPEECH of Airdrie’s new MP was predictable in too many ways. Having laid on generic platitudes to NHS staff, who were until recently
“Denying the SNP an overall majority was, indeed, a collective effort – at least on the part of Unionist voters, who on the constituency ballot
Your statement on the Jerusalem conflict Dear First Minister, IT IS WITH GREAT CONCERN and sadness that I write to you today following your recent
THE RECENT Scottish Parliamentary Elections signalled another slump in the fortunes of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Just when many of us were thinking it couldn’t
COVID-19 MEASURES have been the most important political issue over the past year, so it’s striking that little has so far been said about what
IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, we will not be seeing another referendum in Scotland. The UK government don’t want one, the SNP don’t want one
WHILE YESTERDAY’S VOTES should offer the first real glimpse of public opinion since the Covid nightmare began last March the politicians’ commitments will still not
IT’S OBVIOUS there’ll be no ProUK single party gaining a working majority in May. Even though the SNP will probably see its vote share, in