I WAS SENT a very interesting podcast published by the Scottish think tank Enlighten, discussing Sir Anton Muscatelli’s paper commissioned by the Scottish Labour Party,
A STATUS QUO has settled over modern Scotland in which political debate is shaped through a Glasgow-centred lens that often squeezes out the rest of
THE FRONT PAGE of Friday’s Herald led with a story of rare unity among Labour and SNP leaders: Keir Starmer, Anas Sarwar and John Swinney
The euphoria of fear: On the loss of psyche in modern medicine ANOTHER NIGHT, another shift. The corridor lights hum like old neon, and I
AUGUST, Edinburgh. Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes MSP arrives for a live interview; staff ask for a panic room, as widely reported at the time.
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