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Jill Stephenson
The Flat Earth Society is alive and well in Scotland
THE SCOTLAND of my youth had much to be proud of. It had, after the Treaty of Union in 1707, spawned the Scottish Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, a flowering of intellectual and cultural endeavour ...
What can Eurosceptic Unionists bring to Scottish politics? Causality…
A TEDIOUS DRAMA has been played out in the last week or so. Nicola Sturgeon once again went into a bar, twirled her hair and tapped her trotters against the bar, then ever so subtly ...
Is now the time to change the BBC's culture through a new business model?
IN A FREE SOCIETY with plural news media there is probably little point criticising the content of its output. But Britain’s broadcasting plurality is moot; the BBC dominates, and these are strange times when the government ...
WE ENTER the decade (no pedantry please about when decades kick in) in new political conditions: it’s not so much a Tory government with a healthy majority for the first time in 23 years and ...
Filling the vacuum increasingly left by Scotland's Conservatives
SCOTLAND is increasingly looking like a one party state, which wouldn’t have been out of place in the 1970’s Eastern Europe. We have an SNP which is ever more authoritarian and whose politicians believe in high ...
CONVERSATIONS in the South of England over the festive season have convinced me of a change taking root. It’s a driven by the political re-focussing towards the needs of the North of England as an ...
YOU MAY NOT have heard of it but the University of Edinburgh’s General Council consists of graduates, academic staff and members of the supreme governing body of the university, the University Court:
Scottish Conservatives: a dearth of energy imagination and courage?
NO MATTER how they spin it, the general election result for Scottish Conservatives was grim. The party lost more than half the Scottish MPs it won less than two years previously. The failure was all ...
Come together post-Brexit? We are hardly a knocking shop in Marrakech
SHOWING CONTRITION, or indeed mercy to enemies is a very curious British trait. It's part of our heritage, from when we were far more powerful, when we could afford to appear magnanimous in victory as ...
Beware the “level playing field”– it is a dangerous myth
WE ARE GOING to hear a lot about “level playing fields” in the upcoming months of EU negotiation. Consumers should beware; what sounds like a sentiment for fairness ends up being precisely the opposite.
