AT THIS WEEK’S First Minister’s Questions, the LibDem leader Willie Rennie had his customary go at Nicola Sturgeon about testing. This time he focussed on
THE EMERGENCE of Covid-19 and its subsequent variants has seen decisions being made that would have been unthinkable only a year ago. The idea our
IS THE NHS BRITISH? I ask because early one morning recently I tweeted that opinion. Concluding with the bold declaration that a vote for the
THE SITUATION in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was far from pretty on the eve of Coronavirus’s arrival in Latin America. Struggling through the worst
PLURALIST democracies as well as communist People’s Democracies have legally codified rules setting out how their political systems are supposed to function. The separation of
THE POLITICAL EDITOR of the Financial Times, Philip Stephens, has just published a 464-page dirge on our exit from the EU called ‘The Path From
BREXHAUSTED though many of us are – and happy to get the trade deal over the finish line as we might be – hear this:
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
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
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
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
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