Today's Thinking
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
It’s time to end the political exploitation of religion
HOW OFTEN have you been warned not to mention religion or politics when meeting people? It is the explosive combination of these two entities that
Struan Stevenson
February 14, 2024
Independence would sink Scotland’s fishing communities
PUBLISHING YET ANOTHER fantasy paper “Our Marine Sector in an Independent Scotland”, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform, and Islands Mairi Gougeon, has laid
Struan Stevenson
December 13, 2023
Think Politics
Blyth Spirit: home truths about Scottish secession
RECENTLY, there was an event in Dundee organised by a group called ‘Scotonomics’, whose self-proclaimed task is ‘Demystifying our economy’. To this end they enlisted
Jill Stephenson
April 8, 2024
Why I think Theresa May’s Brexit would have been better for Britain
SHE MAY BE BETTER KNOWN for her kitten heels and her promise of a “strong and stable” government, or perhaps for her coughing fit at
Struan Stevenson
March 19, 2024
Defending Scotland can be done better than choosing between Haggis and Mince
THE SNP/GREEN Scottish Government’s paper “An independent Scotland’s place in the world”, was published on 4 March 24, the eleventh in a series of papers
Stuart Crawford
March 12, 2024
Iran’s web of intrigue and propaganda exposed
IN SEPTEMBER this year, the London-based TV station ‘Iran International’ and the news website ‘Semafor’, sent shockwaves through Europe and America when they revealed that
Struan Stevenson
December 13, 2023
Think Culture
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
Is Humza Yousaf spouting Artificial Intelligence?
Hamish Gobson’s diary: the view from across the Uisge Tuesday 19 March 2024 THE PIECE PLANNED for today had to
Hamish Gobson
March 19, 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
