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
THE VIOLENT DEATH last week of Idriss Déby, the President of Chad, produced the briefest of flickers in the news cycle. Rather unusually, the 68-year-old had died
THE SCOTTISH ECONOMY is in a desperate state. It has long been lagging behind the UK economy but now the prognosis must be considered as dire.
AN EARTHQUAKE on 11 March 2011 caused a tsunami to hit the northeast coast of Japan. 18,500 people are believed to have died following the
THE CENTRE-PIECE of the SNP manifesto released on 15 April turned out not to be a road-map for the next independence referendum; that is being discreetly mothballed.
You can download your copy of the report THE SNP RECORD: good or bad? here. “Scotland has not failed; its leadership has failed”. THESE WERE THE WORDS
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
