THE NICOLA STURGEON of 2021 is no Adolf Hitler. But she is in the vanguard of an attempt to weaken and discredit democracy that is being rolled out across the world. Democracy has arguably never been ...
THE PLACE of the EU in SNP policy has been anything but consistent. Yet to listen to Nicola Sturgeon and her adjutants, we might be forgiven for thinking that the SNP has been consistently pro-EU ...
THE PORTUGUESE writer José Maria Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) created a series of novels portraying Portugal as a society in decay. Family dramas involving infidelity, deception and tragedy are at the centre of them. He was well-placed ...
IF YOU WERE TO EXAMINE the pillars of our democracy and had to choose one that was the foundation on which all else rested, what would it be? My vote would go to the process ...
FOR THOSE who don’t read German the last few years have seen the publication of at least three real page-turners on the history of Central Europe. I cannot recommend them highly enough. Not only are ...
THE GRAPH BELOW of drug deaths in Scotland is so bad it looks like fake news.
But this is real.
As a GP I have had patients come ...
IN THE COURSE of revising the history of Scotland in my recent series of articles (full list of fourteen chapters at foot here), I noted how several leading Scottish Nationalists during the Second ...
EVEN IN THIS AGE of unpredictable politics, when Boris Johnson embraces Green causes with a fervour perhaps not seen anywhere in Europe since Germany under Hitler, offering comparisons between contemporary politics and the era ...
GLOBAL HISTORIANS ARE very interested in what they call ‘The European Miracle’, the title of a famous book, which has gone through several editions, by Professor E.L. Jones. The miracle referred to is not the ...
THERE COULD NOT be a worse time to break up Britain, yet listening to Nicola Sturgeon you would think it was the great panacea for Scotland. Britain will be paying for Coronavirus for a long ...
WE ARE LIVING in extraordinary times. Whatever your view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting mitigation strategies undertaken by governments worldwide, there has never been a time when governments had such wide-ranging control over ...
IT IS DIFFICULT NOW to remember what life in Scotland was like a decade or so ago. Part of this is because of the Coronavirus, but, even before it struck us this year, there were ...