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
Now that the Labour government has shown itself as disastrous as the Tories and equally incapable of getting to grips with the threats to the
ONCE UPON A TIME, the Scottish Enlightenment gave the world reason, courage and plain speech. Now it gives the world The Hate Crime and Public Order
THE THEORY of planned behaviour predicts whether change is likely in three questions: do I think it’s a good thing, does the wider group agree
When private bankers show better judgment than government ministers, taxpayers should be very worried indeed WHILE THE COLLAPSE of Greensill Capital in 2021 sent shockwaves
ANOTHER AUGUST, another parade of drug death statistics. The papers fill, the politicians posture, the quangos rehearse their lines. Then, as sure as night follows
BRITAIN is changing. In an era of mass migration, the failure to deport illegal migrants is undermining a key feature of what was once called
SCOTLAND’S DRUG DEATHS are rising again. Public Health Scotland’s RADAR system shows 312 suspected deaths in spring 2025 up from 215 only six months earlier.
ON TUESDAY 11th August, Dr Stuart Waiton, at a ThinkScotland meeting, spoke of the need for our teachers to believe in civilisation if they were