IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE five years have passed since we voted to leave the EU. Five years of some of the most volatile politics
IT’S AS CLEAR AS EVER that Britain needs a Secession Rebellion because nationalism presents an extinction level threat to the whole United Kingdom. Not four
OF THE TWO great dystopian novels of the twentieth century, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, I’ve never doubted which of the two is
WHEN Nicola Sturgeon was pressed by an STV journalist for comment on swirling allegations of a missing £600,000 independence ‘fighting fund’, she said she was
MANY OF US will remember the night Alex Salmond lost his Westminster seat of Gordon in 2017. It was a ‘were you up for Portillo?’
PERHAPS more than any other case of those I’ve dealt with in the past year, that of Lisa Keogh, final year law student at Abertay
EVEN BEFORE the G7 summit started this week in Cornwall, Joe Biden was expected to lecture Boris Johnson on the ‘peace process’ in Ulster, and
THE CURRENT OUTRAGE about reducing the UK’s international aid budget is yet another example of self-righteous virtue signalling using other people’s money. Cutting the aid
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