THERE IS a certain type of political satisfaction that comes when a daft pronouncement is swiftly shown up as dangerous by real life evidence. Just
LATE LAST AUTUMN I had the dubious pleasure of attending the recording of Dutch leftist historian Rutger Bregman’s third BBC Reith Lecture here in Edinburgh. He
LET’S BE HONEST about where we are. For the past year, anyone who has raised concerns about drug consumption rooms, residents, community groups, frontline voices,
THE SNP Scottish Government has just published its updated climate change plan for the period 2026 to 2040. It is very long-winded as its tentacles extend intrusively
RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform Scotland candidates were previously members
OPINION POLLS continue to show that immigration is a top three issue for the public. Yet you wouldn’t believe it if you listen to our
LIFE ISN’T FAIR, but how we sound matters. Hollywood knows this. It’s not enough to look good, you have to sound good. Barack Obama’s smooth,
WAR, DIPLOMATS LIKE TO SAY, begins where law ends. Nowadays, the opposite is closer to the truth. Modern international law has become the preferred camouflage
IMMEASURABLY sad Rachel Reeves, flanked Keir Starmer last week at the last PMQ’s before recess. She had the look of a woman about to ask
I WAS wearing a Giordano T-shirt in Hong Kong when my former Edinburgh University student, Aberdonian Robin Munro, pointed out that Giordano was the company
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