AS A TEENAGER in Scotland in the 1960s I joined the Liberal Party under the spell of Jo Grimond. I subsequently became Chairman of Glasgow
MEDIA ATTENTION galore has been lavished on the supposed incipient Scottish revolution. London-based political journalists breezily asserted last week that a constitutional tsunami was imminent which
BACK IN 2014, during the ‘Once in a generation’ independence referendum, you could barely move for outlandish claims that “Only a Yes vote can guarantee…”
ACTORS EXCEL at presentation. They earn millions creating a false impression of themselves. From the fanfare afforded to Hollywood actors Alan Cummings you’d think he
THE VERY ATTRACTIVE, beefcake actor, Henry Caville, who plays Superman and was runner-up to Daniel Craig for the role of Bond (and is sometimes tipped
THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT that Gordon Dean is right to point out the dishonesty of the SNP position on a future borderwith the rest
AS THE SCOURGE of Covid is halted in its tracks by medical breakthroughs pioneered in Britain, the watchword from the media and officialdom is that
IT’S OBVIOUS there’ll be no ProUK single party gaining a working majority in May. Even though the SNP will probably see its vote share, in
LAST WEEK an SNP MSP proclaimed that a hard border would create jobs – “we can show that a border will work – there are
‘THE BIG LIE’ (die große Lüge) is a propaganda technique used for political purposes; defined as “a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially
DURING Andrew Marr’s verbal mauling of Nicola Sturgeon on Sunday morning, the First Minister claimed she didn’t know how Scotland’s finances would be affected by
WHY IS THERE so much hatred in Scotland? I don’t remember this as a factor in public discourse in most of the decades of my