On Friday 18 September Vivian Linacre, a few years into his nineties, slipped away from us in his Perth home after an illness born bravely.
THERE ARE of course many different reasons why the British people voted against the siren advice of almost the entire Establishment to leave the EU
IN THE TWENTY YEARS since 9/11, instinctive unity has been replaced by officially-imposed uniformity in the United States and across the West. As planes crashed
THE GOVERNMENT is digging a hole. Yes, another one. The rising cost of care of the elderly is not a new issue. It has been
With apologies to Rumplestiltskin ONCE UPON A TIME in Scotland there was a First Minister who promised the people they would all live happily ever
AFGHANISTAN being ‘the story’ is never good, that much is certain. But this time, it is worse than ever before. There has been a lot
SUPPOSING that the Taliban had never invited Osama bin Laden into Afghanistan or that he had never plotted the destruction of the Twin Towers, these
REJOICE, rejoice. Independence is over. The most recent GERS figures, the Cambo oilfield debacle and mass redundancy at a biscuit factory have hammered yet more
WAS PRESIDENT CLINTON right? He thought by enabling China to join the World Trade Organisation in 1999 they would cease their authoritarian ways and become
THE WEST’S abrupt and calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan is, for British consumption at least, being compared to the rude awakening to its impotence without US
THE DECISION by the Biden Administration to abandon Afghanistan is obviously foolish. The reputation of the West as trustworthy and competent will be undermined. International
THE CULT of transgenderism has taken a very ugly turn. As a libertarian I consider sexuality, whisky and voting in the same bracket. For adults
