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Alan Sked
Don’t Panic! Don’t Panic! The UK should hold its nerve
DESPITE her looming showdown with Alex Salmond, British politicians are still scared stiff of Nicola Sturgeon and her threat of Indyref2. Only Boris has the measure of her. As far as he is concerned any ...
THIS IS THE TIME to stand up and be counted. Our society and way of life is under attack like never before at so many levels and in ways that would have seemed totally improbable ...
Musings of a REAL tank commander – Part 24 Did somebody say there’s a war on?
OVER KUWAIT and Iraq the air war raged on. Back at the Permanent Joint HQ in the UK (our superior HQ), they were beginning to get a bit twitchy at the number of RAF Tornado ...
“Let me be clear – I want to be judged on this. If you are not, as First Minister, prepared to put your neck on the line on the education of our young people then ...
Will Sturgeon’s totalitarian waltz speed up in 2021?
THE NICOLA STURGEON of 2021 is no Adolf Hitler. But she is in the vanguard of an attempt to weaken and discredit democracy that is being rolled out across the world. Democracy has arguably never been ...
Panicking the public? How Covid stories don't stack up
ON FRIDAY Nicola Sturgeon addressed the nation yet again and openly considered the possibility of tightening current Covid restrictions further. Where is Scotland now? How did we get here? Where are we going?
THE ECONOMIST Milton Friedman once suggested the US Federal Reserve could be closed down and replaced with a money supply rule targeting the control of inflation.
No-Deal Nicola: does the SNP really care about EU membership?
THE PLACE of the EU in SNP policy has been anything but consistent. Yet to listen to Nicola Sturgeon and her adjutants, we might be forgiven for thinking that the SNP has been consistently pro-EU ...
SO, THE DEAL HAS BEEN DONE and the new fisheries arrangement agreed. At the outset of the negotiations the UK government declared in The Future Relationship with the EU: The UK’s Approach to Negotiations (February 2020) that, ...
SOVEREIGNTY in the minds of the proverbial man on the Clapham omnibus is a simple concept. It is that as a country we are the sole determinant of the laws and regulations that govern our ...
