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
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;
IN THE PAST FOUR weeks there have been two big, well organised, demonstrations against SNP/Green policy and legislation outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh.
THERE IS an important insight in economics called “what is unseen” – a shorthand description of a treatise offered by Frederic Bastiat about the effects
AGAINST A BACKGROUND of spiralling inflation, an energy crisis, the NHS in meltdown, falling educational standards, soaring drug deaths and a lack of affordable housing,
AS MUCH AS I don’t want to give George Eustice’s comments about the Australian trade deal any more publicity, he did seem to be looking
THEY’RE AT IT AGAIN. As if they hadn’t done enough damage to Scotland, the Labour Party has commissioned a report from a group led by