Promises of a Scotland-specific public inquiry unfulfilled, a botched job protecting care homes and an allergy to accountability. Truth is, the SNP have failed our
I’VE BEEN GOING THROUGH a bit of a stressful time of late, the details of which I won’t bore you with but suffice it to
BORIS has much on his plate. The challenges mount and his time is scarce. From the coronavirus to rebalancing the economy and from acting as the
THE EURO 2020 football tournament, played in 2021, has been tremendous, full of good football, goals and drama, and a wonderful tonic for everyone after
FEW THINGS offend the liberal elite like criticism of foreign aid. Critics often rely on tired tropes such as “trade not aid”, as if the
ON MONDAY 5th July I watched the live broadcast from No.10, sitting by myself on the same sofa on which I watched that seminal broadcast
DESPITE the limited tariff-free quotas given to Australian beef and sheep meat imports, the National Farmers Union (NFU) is still complaining. But despite the all
SOME OF US RECALL Kermit felt it ain’t easy being green back in the 70s. But being part of the Green Party in Holyrood must
WITH GREAT FANFARE, the Scottish government announced recently it would spend £1bn over the next ten years to build 23 new ferries to serve our
WHEN THE Scottish government announced its intention to invite the OECD to conduct an independent review of Scottish education, the general public may have been
THE REVIEW of Scottish education by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) had already acquired a mantric status before it was revealed to
AFTER Sir Jeffrey Donaldson lost the Democratic Unionist Party’s leadership election to Edwin Poots six weeks ago, the victor failed to mention his defeated rival