BACK IN FULL BLOOM, literally in the pink, Nicola Sturgeon took the stand at the UK COVID Inquiry to talk preparedness. Maybe not the last
THE END of a regime can occur in different ways. There is, of course, violent insurrection. Or the democratic process can unseat an incumbent. Relentless
SOME MEMBERS of the House of Lords have written a letter to the Times complaining the retained EU regulations will be removed by ministers without
Cognitive biases in seven strategic decisions that led to Culloden HERBERT SIMON was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976 for (to quote the
IF GOD MADE Scotland man, then he’d come up with Nicola Sturgeon. He’d mix together a Scottish terrier, a no-nonsense school mistress, a Braveheart script,
IGNORE the usual suspects, the fact is Brexit Britain joining CPTPP is a fantastic long term opportunity, representing a globally significant event. It makes re-joining
THE SHEER cynicism of our Prime Minister is quite something. The Windsor Framework indeed! More like the Duke of Windsor Framework. Something that should have
Nicola Sturgeon has resigned. This piece on polling, reporting what was obviously very bad news for the SNP, was written yesterday before the announcement, I
SOMETIMES It’s impossible to avoid cliché, but today tectonic plates shifted in Scottish politics. Nicola Sturgeon is going. For eight years, she has been, in
WHATEVER ELSE you may say about the First Minister, she is a glutton for punishment. I can’t imagine she looks forward to First Minister’s Questions,
IN THE 1980s, while living in Berlin, I was invited to a Marlene Dietrich party. I was the only woman there and by far the
A FEW WEEKS AGO the trans rights champion, Green MSP Maggie Chapman didn’t know which sex she was because she hadn’t had a chromosomal test;