SHOUTING ‘freedom’, ‘down with communism’ and ‘down with the dictatorship’, thousands of Cubans across their island have, for the first time in many years, taken
THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS have certainly been a very challenging time for all of us living through and dealing with the various stages of this
AND SO we now have it. It is stark and it is bittersweet, but the politically charged adjudication, by the Honourable Mr. Justice Colton (pictured),
WHENEVER there appears to be an emerging scandal in NHS Scotland it will inevitably be fulminant. Such is the secrecy that clouds everything the SNP
COLIN BEATTIE, the SNP’s national treasurer has issued a new statement attempting to explain away the concerns surrounding the allegedly missing ‘frozen’ funds for a
THERE IS REALLY only one argument worth having in politics if you are serious about improving the lives of ordinary people, and that is the
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
IN HUMAN AFFAIRS necessity is well known to be the mother of new ideas; but in economics numbers are the grandfathers of delusion and diversion. The
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