Five years inside Scotland’s political machine “Faith without works is dead.” — James 2:26 FOR FIVE YEARS I’ve lived inside the slow, grinding process of
THERE IS A SPACE where worlds collide and create the most unexpected of challenges. Sociology like chemistry is a study of interactions and reactions at
THIS WEEK’S report on drug related deaths in Scotland gives food for thought on one of the largest public health disasters since devolution started. Like
I RECENTLY rediscovered my first online post of April 2015, an early debunking of the climate change hoax and what later became Net Zero. I
IF WESTMINSTER were a horse, the humane thing would be to shoot it. Holyrood? I’d send for the knackers’ van before lunch. Yet we saddle
Kate Forbes built the SNP’s feel-good economic model and sold it as progressive. In reality, it’s an incoherent, anti-market disaster enabled by Forbes’s intellectual vanity.
How a nation sedated by spin and slogans must rediscover truth, virtue and courage DELUSION is the last comfort of a collapsing regime. It turns
WHENEVER John Swinney suffers an election reverse, as he did in Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse on 5 June, he assures us he will focus on
Why Scotland’s political class keeps us circling the same drain SCOTLAND doesn’t suffer from a lack of politics. It suffers from a surfeit of politicians
IMAGINE, for a moment, that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest legal authority in the land, makes a definitive ruling. Let’s say
ARE PEOPLE finally wakening up to the great harm that NGOs do to our personal freedoms, economic prosperity, cultural values and safety from foreign powers
RETURNING TO SCOTLAND, I look with horror at our politics. From the perspective of someone who has worked in Chinese-UK relations for nearly 20 years,