WOULD YOU Adam and Eve it? The SNP’s propaganda rag, The National, has published an article called ‘Fears for pensions in an independent Scotland quelled in Yesser’s new video’. The fourteen-minute video in question is made by ...
EDWARD GARNIER, a former Conservative MP and now a peer, is an experienced lawyer who, at one stage was advising John Major in his bid to oppose Brexit. In the House of Lords last month, he ...
IT STRIKES ME both Angela Merkel and Nicola Sturgeon are regarded in the media as long-serving leaders who are pleasant, capable and successful. I don’t know how pleasant Sturgeon is since I have never met her but she seems more ...
WHEN A MARRIED COUPLE effectively control politics and government, it is sufficiently unusual to evoke interest. When such a duumvirate leads to a collapse of governmental standards and impairs public morality, it breeds alarm. This has ...
JUST WHAT kind of regime does Nicola Sturgeon and her SNP lead in Scotland? It is no longer what we would consider a normal parliamentary democracy to be. It is true there is still a ...
NOW THAT we have satnav, it’s rare to feel the frustration of travelling in a car where the driver resolutely heads in the wrong direction despite being told repeatedly that “it’s the other way!”
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Troubled dictators were keen to learn why a seemingly all-powerful Nicolae Ceausescu fell almost overnight. Tom Gallagher thinks it is normal for democrats of all hues to ask why, in one corner of the West – Scotland – the political system is, in worrying aspects, starting to resemble Ceausescu’s.
THE UK IS ON TRACK to meet its target of 15 million Coronavirus vaccine injections by the 15th of February. Some 1.8 million jabs were given last week, and the daily average is accelerating.
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THE EMERGENCE of Covid-19 and its subsequent variants has seen decisions being made that would have been unthinkable only a year ago. The idea our liberties could be restricted, our livelihoods threatened and our children’s ...
PLURALIST democracies as well as communist People’s Democracies have legally codified rules setting out how their political systems are supposed to function. The separation of powers is supposed to be the bedrock of liberal democracy. ...
THE POLITICAL EDITOR of the Financial Times, Philip Stephens, has just published a 464-page dirge on our exit from the EU called ‘The Path From Suez to Brexit’. The title is presumably meant to emphasise the ...
DESPITE her looming showdown with Alex Salmond, British politicians are still scared stiff of Nicola Sturgeon and her threat of Indyref2. Only Boris has the measure of her. As far as he is concerned any ...