Lessons in Brexit economics – the chimera of frictionless trade

AMONG MANY other myths and oddities about Brexit is the declaration that our government is seeking “frictionless trade” with the EU. 

No trade is frictionless. And economics has a specific “theory of ...

An open letter to Scotland’s right-of-centre voters

WELL HERE WE ARE, just as I predicted 18 months ago. The one thing more miserable and ignoble than the surrender document Theresa May waves at our nation is the activity of those Scottish Conservative ...

Scotland needs real conservatives more than ever

THERE ARE some people in life I find are intolerant to experience or fact. When they faced with a moral dilemma they find their own compass to be south pointing and who excel in ignorance.

Brexit? Remove the money from the deal and the deal collapses

ART IS LONG as life is short. In moments of history and future we must remember our own mortality and ultimate insignificance when working for ourselves. Yet we must keep faith that through the recognition of a ...

Brexit can be saved - but we need not just a Churchill but a Beaverbrook too!

LAST NIGHT, Theresa May’s Cabinet nominally approved the 585 page document on withdrawal from the EU. It is no surprise that subsequently her Ministers have begun to bolt, as her scheme fails to deliver what ...

EU armed forces are already on the way – ten steps that prove what’s happening

THE WHISPERING GAME IS OVER. Macron and Merkel’s project is already underway. The leaders of ‘Project EU’ are now openly calling for EU Armed Forces.

The real political moves behind their ...

Battle Of Britain latest – the Harris Tweed skirmish

LAST WEEK the Scottish nationalist preoccupation with "flegs" waved its weary head above the parapets again, this time in Inverness.

The stooshie revolved around a new shop in Inverness. (I won't name ...

Mountain Rescue deserves better from the First Minister

AS I WRITE THIS, Scottish Mountain Rescue teams across the country are gearing up and preparing for the winter season. This is a time of year where call-outs spike as our hills are transformed into ...

The Conservative & Customs Unionist Party will bring #Indyref2 down on us all

THERE ARE A FEW salient features of a modern state. The rise of globalism and especially Europeanism have undermined the nation state in ways few predicted. A faceless internationalism in terms of corporatism and a ...

Women in the army? What's the problem?

THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT by the Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson, that all parts of the British Army, in particular the so-called “combat arms” (tanks, infantry, engineers etc), are now open to women is ...

Review: Jordan Peterson in Glasgow – It was emotional

IF YOU HAD told me a few years ago I would be spending north of £50 a ticket to go to go see a Canadian Professor of Psychology give a lecture as part of a ...

Is the UK drifting towards a dictatorship by stealth?

COULD WE END UP under the heels of a dictator and nobody notice? Conservative Party Accounts for the year ending 31st December 2015, item 17 states:

“17. Controlling PartyAs described on page 7, ...