
Nigel Farage has come a long way since Canons’ Gait
AS THE long campaign for the Holyrood election on May 7 began last week, a political tremor has been running through Scotland: electoral politics as

AS THE long campaign for the Holyrood election on May 7 began last week, a political tremor has been running through Scotland: electoral politics as

THE MOST STRIKING aspect of yesterday’s council by-election in Fife is the success of ReformUK. From a standing start, Romano Valente, the Reform candidate, took

Time to stop managing failure and start preventing it. STROKE is one of the most predictable catastrophes in Scottish medicine. We know who is at

NO-ONE with a pulse can really have been surprised at recent events in Venezuela. The USA telegraphed its intent for months before finally taking action.

DESPITE the left wing rhetoric of the government and the BMA, it is left wing economics and derision of the professional class that are the

The third in a series from the Wealthy Nation Healthy Nation paper edited by Malcolm Offord This chapter was by Councillor Tim Jones SCOTLAND’S SCHOOLS

The second in a series from the Wealthy Nation Healthy Nation paper edited by Malcolm Offord This chapter was by Prof A McNeill. Contributing authors:

The first of a series from the Wealthy Nation Healthy Nation paper edited by Malcolm Offord This chapter was by Dr Gerard Lyons SINCE THE

LAST WEEK’S announcement that John B Cox, an independent councillor in Aberdeenshire council, had joined Reform UK Scotland has provoked a mix of reactions. We

ON SATURDAY past, at a Reform UK Scotland rally in Falkirk, something happened that strengthened Reform’s prospects for the Holyrood election in May. Malcolm Offord (The Lord Offord of

FAIRLY RECENTLY, I wrote about how the SNP is not a governing party but a campaigning outfit (‘Campaigning, not governing’, Think Scotland, June 12, 2025).

Ewen Stewart on the real state of Britain’s economy and why redemption, not despair, is still within reach. I’LL BE THE FIRST to admit I