Today's Thinking
No human being is born into the wrong body
AS WE READ in The Times that Moray Council is considering guidance for supporting so-called ‘transgender’ children that will prevent teachers from using the correct
Dr Catherine McCall
May 13, 2024
Swinney’s Government starts as damaged goods
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT is a reputationally challenged disaster-zone, struggling beneath myriad policy-outcome failures. There is a good reason John Swinney has emerged as SNP leader
Dean M Thomson
May 9, 2024
April haters day has a fascist past
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Monday 1st April 2024 GIVEN THAT Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act
Hamish Gobson
April 1, 2024
Free the market and end the guff about the ‘wellbeing economy’
Scots are rejecting the SNP-Green coalition’s ‘wellbeing economy’ as quickly as disavowing the ‘net zero’ policies. But the Scottish Government refuses to listen. It’s time
Dean M Thomson
February 21, 2024
Think Politics
The power of education matters
MY VIEW of education is a very simple one. Education is empowering. Without education, or with an inadequate education, a child’s life chances are stunted.
Jill Stephenson
May 13, 2024
Scotland under the Conservatives, 1979-1997 Pt.2
THE FIRST PART of this section concentrated on Britain’s relative economic decline in the 1960s and 1970s. Thatcher was well aware of the country’s reputation and on 13
Alan Sked
May 10, 2024
Scotland under the Conservatives, 1979-1997 Pt.1
MRS THATCHER is a much hated figure in Scotland even today. A retrospective assessment of her premiership in The National on 26 June 2018, for example,
Alan Sked
May 10, 2024
Challenger 3: A review of the British Army’s ‘new’ tank
THE UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made a bit of a fanfare over Britain’s new main battle tank (MBT), the Challenger 3, and its
Stuart Crawford
May 9, 2024
Think Culture
Political ice cream is a hypocritical confection
ICE CREAM is a joy that ought not to be spoiled by poor ingredients and self-serving sanctimony. It should be velvety and smooth, not coarse
Brian Monteith
May 13, 2024
The Netflix ‘Ripley’ will make you pine for the 90s
A NEW VERSION of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ has been remade for a new audience. It’s been 25 years since Anthony
Gail MacDonald
April 9, 2024
April haters day has a fascist past
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Monday 1st April 2024 GIVEN THAT Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act
Hamish Gobson
April 1, 2024
Are Southgate’s prospects going south?
SO, ‘it’s 1-0 to the Brazil’. England beaten by a boy. Cue bedlam. Cue pandemonium. Cue clamour for his head. But this handwringing, this haranguing
Hector Crawford
March 25, 2024
Think Business
When a rejoiner’s heid’s full o’ mince
FOR THOSE who don’t know her, Liz Webster is a keyboard warrior on behalf of the unofficial rejoin movement. She is, if anything prolific, but
Catherine McBride
April 19, 2024
Time for the OBR to admit it got Brexit wrong
THE OBR (Office for Budget Responsibility) published its annual report evaluating its fiscal forecasting record last month. The report doesn’t mention Brexit specifically but does
Catherine McBride
November 24, 2023
Now is the time to deliver a new era for Scotland’s fishing fleet
ROCKETING ENERGY PRICES, exacerbated by the illegal war in Ukraine, have hit people and businesses across the UK, especially those that are highly dependent on
Struan Stevenson
September 22, 2023
Taxing wealth more? The wrong answer to a stupid question
I AM NOT a regular reader of the New Statesman but occasionally it’s worth enquiring into the strange world of the left-liberal mind. I was
Ewen Stewart
September 6, 2023
