TWENTY-FIVE years into devolution, and the outcomes for health, education and the economy don’t so much scream success as much as whimper to be put
THE SCOTTISH GREENS were clearly delighted and relieved when ‘continuity’ candidate Humza Yousaf was installed in Bute House as SNP leader and thus First Minister.
WHAT IS IT about so much of Scottish media news reporting that it has to see everything through the prism of nationalism? I fully understand
I AM WHITE, from a working class background and now in my 50s, and I tend to not just ‘be kind’ when someone tries to
IN ITS USUAL distemper brush rhetorical approach, the Scottish Government claims it wants to “promote a culture of entrepreneurship that will help to grow and
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Europe’s Leadership Famine: Portraits of defiance and decay 1950-2022 IRONICALLY, after years of the pooling of national powers within the framework of the European Union,
DESPITE all the challenges from pizzas, burgers, Indian and Chinese take-aways, kebabs, chicken buckets and other fast foods – fish and chips continues to remain
IN THE 17th century, James Francis Edward Stuart, the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, was born just months
MSP and ex-First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was at Holyrood last week, where she bumped into the media and gave an impromptu little speech in the
WHO HASN’T been spell-bound by the drama unfolding in Scottish politics since Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation? When she resigned, I wrote about tectonic plates shifting,
THE Black Maternal Health report, published this month, looked at ‘Disparities in outcomes for ethnic mothers’. Any study that looks for ways to improve health