AS THE SUN SHINES in June and the fruit swells in the field we should look forward to a welcoming summer. Scotland on a clear
NATIONALISM HAS STALLED. It may not seem like it from the shrill cries of delight from the SNP following the recent Holyrood elections, but the big
RECENT EVENTS have challenged many of my preconceptions, shaken previous articles of faith to the core, and made me re-examine an annoyingly inconvenient number of
THE FRENCH ECONOMIST Jean Fourastie in 1979 published a landmark work entitled ‘Trente Glorieuses’ celebrating an era of progress since the war, three decades of
THIS WESTMINSTER government is keen to talk up its opposition to separatism and claim Boris Johnson practices ‘muscular unionism’. That type of rhetoric is all
SCOTLAND’S nearly 150 years as an industrial powerhouse were sometimes replete with communal tensions. Economic rivalry between workers, religious differences, and occasionally fierce ones over the
AT THE Free Speech Union we are in the business of facilitating free and open debate and pushing back against the insidious and now widespread
SCOTTISH POLITICS is suffering from gangrene, that toxic combination of dead meat and a galloping infection. Reading the musings of what pass now for journalists
IT’S GROUNDHOG DAY. Again. The SNP wins an election and immediately demands a separatist referendum. The SNP has pretty much disowned the White Paper –
THAT PENETRATING legal mind Ian Mitchell recently argued that both Putin’s Russia and Sturgeon’s Scotland are places where the defining trademark of the ruling parties is bombastic
SCOTLAND WILL NEVER go back to being an EU country unless the rest of the UK does as well, and that seems pretty unlikely, not
LAST WEEK, Northern Ireland’s official centenary passed with a relative lack of fanfare and there were several reasons why the celebrations were muted. Firstly, large