THE OLD CERTAINTIES have taken a battering this past week. One of British politics’ most gloriously unrepentant characters has been snatched from us in circumstances
DEAR MEMBER OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, Subject to SCVO grant approval – a formality, naturally – you are cordially invited, at the taxpayer’s expense, to
THERE IS a strange magic at the heart of modern British government. Westminster announces that it is “giving power away”, local politicians celebrate their shiny
“TO A FEW OF US here today this is a solemn and most momentous occasion, and yet in the history of our nation it is
Can We Be Rich Again?: The Surprising Potential of Britain’s Economy, Jeremy Hunt Swift Press, 304pp SIR JEREMY HUNT’S ambition was to make a million
This article was first published on Sunday 7th June. It looked bad for the Government then – with today’s resignation of the Defence Secretary it
THE CITY CHAMBERS is a wonderful, historic building and one of the ways it serves the Edinburgh public is through hires for corporate events, weddings
THE ADMISSION of embezzlement by the leader of House Murrell compounds a resignation across Scotland that the SNP has some serious issues with integrity. It
First published on 18 February 2023 The following article is an addition to a chapter on Nicola Sturgeon by Tom Gallagher in light of recent
THERE IS A CERTAIN TYPE of person in politics, media and public life who genuinely believes they understand poverty because they have read reports about
HEADLINES from recent opinion polls suggest that a majority of Brits now want to reverse Brexit. But a deeper dive shows that this support is
IN 1988, Ken Livingstone published a book entitled ‘If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish it’. The Holyrood election of 7 May 2026 demonstrated that sense