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Brian Monteith

12 simple reasons Boris, binning the Backstop still isn’t Brexit

FIRST – The withdrawal Agreement – even without the ‘Backstop’ – will put the UK under the de facto jurisdiction of a group of 27 foreign powers, leaving the UK powerless to veto laws or procedures affecting ...

Alan Sked

Slavery, Scotland and reparations

THE NEWS that my old alma mater, the University of Glasgow, is to give £30 million to the University of the West Indies in compensation for the donations made to it in the past by slaveholders ...

Miles Saltiel

What does Boris do next within the rule of law?

THE PRIME MINISTER has told members of his Cabinet (who in turn have told the Commons) that naturally, he is to comply with the law. Let us take it that he is unable to agree ...

Victor Clements

Why we need to change our referendums – and how

THERE HAVE BEEN two referendums in Scotland in the last five years; the Scottish Independence referendum in 2014 and the referendum on membership of the European Union in 2016. Both referendums were intended to address ...

Jamie Nugent

Venezuela’s tragedy – Chavista terror follows a familiar pattern of violence for political ends

ASIDE FROM BRIBERY, fear and terror are the means by which the Chavista regime keeps itself in power. As the regime weakens and has fewer resources at its command it is becoming more reliant on ...

Ewen Stewart

Faux outrage – setting the record straight

SO THERE WE HAVE IT, Bercow has described it as ‘a constitutional outrage’, Sturgeon has said Johnson is ‘acting like a dictator’ and Anna Soubry MP and leader of something called Change UK, which I ...

Jonathan Stanley

Merkel has given us a potato – the consequences could be disastrous

I'VE ENJOYED READING Emma's Mummy Diaries here on ThinkScotland. It had me thinking about our man Boris agreeing with Chancellor Merkel's suggestion that the Irish Backstop is 'ours' to sort out – and that ...

Jonathan Stanley

Slaughter of the lambs all because of Brexit

IT HAD TO HAPPEN. At some point as we close in on leaving the EU the Remoaners would come up with something so absurd that the lunacy of their argument could only be appreciated at ...

Nick Cook

Is it time for a new UK drugs policy?

HURRICANE BORIS already makes it feel like a lifetime ago. But for a brief period early in the summer, the Conservative Party leadership contest appeared set to become the unlikely catalyst for a fresh national ...

Paul Spare

Do we face climate extinction or self-destruction?

THE PRESSURE GROUP Extinction Rebellion has garnered considerable publicity in recent weeks with their demands for policy changes to mitigate Global Warming. Its demands are very generalised but include the UK economy becoming carbon neutral by ...

Linda Holt

Johnson might yet prove to be Davidson's greatest asset

WE LIVE IN AN ERA of celebrity politics, 24-hour media, and the relentless flow of comment on social media, where everyone can be a reporter and a pundit, treating the famous as if they were ...

Ewen Stewart

Smear, innuendo and speaking to the gallery

IN THE SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY let’s just say the last three years have been one of partial truth. We all now know what May’s ‘Brexit means Brexit’ really meant and we all now know what ...