Today's Thinking
Spain wants strategic immunity, the US should end it
Payback at the Pillars of Hercules? Madrid has spent years undermining Western interests while expecting unquestioned Western solidarity. Ceuta and Melilla offer the perfect point
Bepi Pezzulli
April 28, 2026
We must have the right not to ‘Digitally Verify to Participate’ in society
WHEN Keir Starmer announced in September 2025 the government was bringing in ‘mandatory Digital ID Cards’ or a ‘Britcard’ to ‘stop the boats’ the British
Alan Miller
April 21, 2026
PMQs is a boring Keirologue – and that suits Starmer
WINNING is all that matters in sports. True greats like Novak Djokovic are machines, winning through strong, unfazed, consistent responses. In tennis it works a treat. Bat it back, score a few points and
Dr Gail MacDonald
April 7, 2026
From Govan to Gorton, unionism is an island shared not divided
SOMETHING is shifting in post-industrial Britain. It is not a sudden national swing or a dramatic revolt. It is quieter than that. For decades, London-focused
Jonathan Stanley
March 20, 2026
Think Politics
Did Swinney’s Ancien Régime do as well as he claims?
THE UK MEDIA seem incredulous that the SNP, on the face of it at least, performed so strongly in yesterday’s Scottish election. How can the
Ewen Stewart
May 13, 2026
The WHO’s pandemic agreement still rejected by low income nations
The WHO’s Trojan Horse agreement remains unsigned as unaccountable technocrats and donor interests face resistance from poor nations To the surprise of no-one, the deliberations
Brian Monteith
May 13, 2026
Malcolm Offord has already changed the Holyrood election for the better
HE IS NOT even elected yet, but already Malcolm Offord and his legion of Reformers have started to change Scottish politics for the better. The
Brian Monteith
May 5, 2026
The Four Yorkshiremen of Holyrood want us poorer than poor
TRAVELLING THROUGH the blue skied sunny hills of Shropshire, on my way to pay some more tax to our masters, the Scot within me has
Jonathan Stanley
April 29, 2026
Think Culture
The dangerous uselessness of bureaucratically-minded politicians
Nevil Shute’s experience of Air Ministry incompetence in the crucial 1930s, focussing on the R 101 disaster MANY OF THOSE who enjoyed either reading or
Ian Mitchell
May 12, 2026
Oranges are not the only marmalade
AS THE UK re-aligns itself with EU food regulations (like 2016 never happened) marmalade is being relabelled. Marmalade to the Spanish and Italians can come from
Dr Gail MacDonald
April 11, 2026
How Net Zero threatens curling, skating and swimming
IT IS NOT just industry that is being devastated by the UK’s self-inflicted high energy costs resulting from Net Zero policies – sports, leisure and
Brian Monteith
April 8, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” – the 2026 cover version
REMEMBER Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights? It’s the novel about a sexy romp that scandalised 1820s society written by the enfant terrible of her day? No?
Dr Gail MacDonald
February 12, 2026
Think Business
Debunked! The dodgy stats used by Project Rejoin
A cut-out-and-keep summary of the claims most commonly made about the harm that Brexit has supposedly done to UK GDP, their sources, their methodology and
Julian Jessop
May 13, 2026
Three reasons why you should never trust a “doppelgänger”
The claim that Brexit has already shrunk the UK economy by “as much as 8 per cent” is based on flawed analysis and should not
Julian Jessop
May 7, 2026
The top fifty timeline to the UK’s industrial destruction
POLITICALLY, the UK has been moving toward the dismantling of its hydrocarbon extractive industries for many decades. Almost all post-war UK governments, including those of
Brian Monteith
April 28, 2026
The 21 things you need to know about Net Zero
TOGETHER with David Turver and Brian Monteith, I recently published a paper – Premeditated industrial destruction; How the UK destroyed its industry and a plan
Catherine McBride
April 28, 2026