FLAGS have long been emotive emblems. From 1789 and throughout the nineteenth century, the warring sides in France were recognisable by their respective flags, the
HISTORIANS are sure to pore over this ‘unprecedented’ period for centuries to come. It is my belief that in the fullness of time, they will
THE SNP HAS FAILED to tackle poverty in Scotland, which has become appreciably worse under the Salmond-Sturgeon administrations. While poverty rates had been steadily declining
PRESUMABLY, when the SNP Government set out to toughen up the law in relation to hate crime, it wasn’t the intention to criminalise conversations over
THERE ARE TWO ways to fight elections. One is to pose sincerely an alternative vision for the country, to contest the throne of government and
AS A BLOSSOMING lockdown sceptic, I developed a big problem in the summer, which has tortured me since – this does not feel like an
LAST FEBRUARY Colin McKay of STV described a conference in Newcastle run by that mildest of pro-UK campaign groups, These Islands, as “ultra unionist ….mostly male and
IT HAD TO HAPPEN eventually. A Stalinist party machine has disappeared an erudite Trotskyist. The ice pick was swung in the dark, no press release
I HAVE been thinking about fear a lot recently and the power that it has to alter and control peoples’ behaviour. At the beginning of
ON THE 7TH OF AUGUST 2012, the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act received royal assent. It was the most radical step yet taken in
WHEN AN UNEXPECTED virus has wrought pain and suffering across the land, leaving many families grieving; when the Government response has caused the economy to
ACCORDING to a Sunday newspaper faith in Britain is disintegrating although its polling figures are not as alarming as they seem. They indicate that 49