
When scholarship becomes heresy: defending academic courage in Scotland
When justice becomes emotional theatre, scholarship becomes heresy. DR STUART WAITON has done what good academics are supposed to do, he asked difficult questions. Last

When justice becomes emotional theatre, scholarship becomes heresy. DR STUART WAITON has done what good academics are supposed to do, he asked difficult questions. Last

Happy Hour in A&E makes everyone miserable ANOTHER SHIFT finished, the night is young, and I for one am glad happy hour is over. Late

Five years inside Scotland’s political machine “Faith without works is dead.” — James 2:26 FOR FIVE YEARS I’ve lived inside the slow, grinding process of

THERE IS A SPACE where worlds collide and create the most unexpected of challenges. Sociology like chemistry is a study of interactions and reactions at

THIS WEEK’S report on drug related deaths in Scotland gives food for thought on one of the largest public health disasters since devolution started. Like

I RECENTLY rediscovered my first online post of April 2015, an early debunking of the climate change hoax and what later became Net Zero. I

IF WESTMINSTER were a horse, the humane thing would be to shoot it. Holyrood? I’d send for the knackers’ van before lunch. Yet we saddle

Kate Forbes built the SNP’s feel-good economic model and sold it as progressive. In reality, it’s an incoherent, anti-market disaster enabled by Forbes’s intellectual vanity.

How a nation sedated by spin and slogans must rediscover truth, virtue and courage DELUSION is the last comfort of a collapsing regime. It turns

WHENEVER John Swinney suffers an election reverse, as he did in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on 5 June, he assures us he will focus on

Why Scotland’s political class keeps us circling the same drain SCOTLAND doesn’t suffer from a lack of politics. It suffers from a surfeit of politicians

IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest legal authority in the land, makes a definitive ruling. Let’s say