ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this was first published on 10 August 2021
FACE IT John Swinney – you owe Malcolm Offord an apology. Worse still, because apologies cost nothing, you are due the Scottish taxpayers a £22m
FORGIVE ME for not falling for PT Burnham’s Circus act. It is a complete and utter fraud, taking us back to the supposed feelgood days
THE DEFINING economic legacy of the Starmer government will not be any single tax rise or employment reform. It will be the acceleration of Britain’s
THE ESTABLISHMENT has just suffered two severe setbacks to its climate change Net Zero narrative in the form of official publications which show unequivocally that
Andy Burnham is wrong: group think trumps devo divergence and cannot save Port Talbot, Scunthorpe or Aberdeen GROUP THINK is a problem in many settings. It
In political movements where a single constitutional goal becomes dominant, governance can begin to feel secondary to the pursuit of resolution. Policy becomes refracted through
KEIR STARMER’s premiership ended much as it began: sealed inside an ideological terrarium, insulated from criticism, suspicious of dissent and detached from the country he
FOR DECADES, Scottish politics has argued over how much money Scotland receives. The debate has revolved around the Barnett Formula, fiscal transfers, oil revenues and
BY-ELECTIONS are straws in the wind – a side-show that cannot change the Government of the UK, but give people a free hit to express
Peter Murrell, collective denial, and the reckoning Scotland hasn’t had THE SOCIOLOGIST Eviatar Zerubavel observed that denial is never merely a personal act. It is
First published on 17 June 2021 WHEN Nicola Sturgeon was pressed by an STV journalist for comment on swirling allegations of a missing £600,000 independence