THE SCOTTISH Language Society last year produced a series of small articles commemorating what it pleased to call ‘Scotland’s last uprising’ of April 1820: ‘Long
THE DEATH of Prince Philip last Friday, 62 days short of his one hundredth birthday, led to most parties suspending their electoral campaigning in Scotland.
THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT election on May 6 will be like no other in recent Scottish history. Every local, Scottish and UK election for the last
THE MICHAEL MOORE type docu-activist approach to making a point has never seemed entirely conducive to debate. Gathering together a set of visual ‘facts’ that
MAY 5 THIS YEAR will see the two hundredth anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte. He is easily the best known Frenchman despite having
AT LEAST TWO new parties will be on the ballot paper in the Scottish parliament elections of 6 May, the pro-separation Alba and the anti-separation
IN NORTHERN IRELAND, the most reliable opinion polls show consistent support for the Union with Great Britain. So why has overheated chatter about the province’s
THESE ARE STIRRING TIMES for Alex Salmond and internal critics of Nicola Sturgeon’s record as the chief custodian of the nationalist cause in Scotland. Salmond claims
THE HEADLINES were straightforward. “Scottish Church leaders celebrate as church ban ruled unlawful’. The reactions unsurprising. If you are a lockdown sceptic, you hailed the victory of
IT IS NOW A YEAR since the lockdowns began – it is not something we should be celebrating or be proud of. As long ago
LAST WEEK I pointed out the various political delusions that Scots suffer from. Believing Sturgeon can survive is perhaps another one, but that is something
IT WOULD BE deeply ironic if, in a Scottish spring that looks like being a momentous one, roles will be swopped by some of the
