Think Politics

March 24, 2026

The struggle for Brexit continues

BREXHAUSTED though many of us are – and happy to get the trade deal over the finish line as we might be – hear this:

Jonathan Saxty January 18, 2021

Don’t Panic! Don’t Panic! The UK should hold its nerve

DESPITE her looming showdown with Alex Salmond, British politicians are still scared stiff of Nicola Sturgeon and her threat of Indyref2. Only Boris has the

Alan Sked January 12, 2021

A new hope for Britain, a new hope for Scotland

THIS IS THE TIME to stand up and be counted. Our society and way of life is under attack like never before at so many

Ewen Stewart January 11, 2021

Panicking the public? How Covid stories don’t stack up

ON FRIDAY Nicola Sturgeon addressed the nation yet again and openly considered the possibility of tightening current Covid restrictions further. Where is Scotland now? How

Christine Padgham January 9, 2021

THAT fishing deal – what really are the facts?

SO, THE DEAL HAS BEEN DONE and the new fisheries arrangement agreed. At the outset of the negotiations the UK government declared in The Future Relationship

Neil Stratton January 4, 2021

ThinkBooks: Despised: why the modern left loathes the working class

IN THE AFTERMATH of Labour’s crushing electoral defeat minds quickly turned to speculating how such a thing could have happened. Was it Brexit? Or perhaps

Dean M Thomson December 21, 2020

Covid-19 in Scotland – what does the data really tell us?

WITH SCOTTISH EXCESS DEATHS approaching 6,000 for 2020 it is critically important we identify the causes of excess mortality. Historically, this has been an unprecedented

Christine Padgham December 18, 2020

Scotland’s drug death shame is due to Nicola Sturgeon’s wrong priorities

THE GRAPH BELOW of drug deaths in Scotland is so bad it looks like fake news. But this is real. As a GP I

Bruce Halliday December 18, 2020

Solidarity is why Britain works and the EU doesn’t

THE FAILURE of the UK Government over the last four years to resolve the Brexit impasse – coupled with its incoherent response to the Covid

Jonathan Saxty December 15, 2020

If Brexit will deliver independence why does Sturgeon fight it so much?

VICTIMHOOD has always been the core of nationalism. We are oppressed by Them: if we were free, our problems would be solved. This has been the lure of

Robert Tombs December 11, 2020

The stark truth about Covid and the SNP

THERE IS A PERCEPTION in Britain that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP have handled the Coronavirus pandemic well. Support for Scottish independence has, apparently, been

Bruce Halliday December 10, 2020

Brexit and the drive for a second independence referendum

GLOBAL HISTORIANS ARE very interested in what they call ‘The European Miracle’, the title of a famous book, which has gone through several editions, by

Alan Sked December 7, 2020