IS IT POSSIBLE to find a more unsuitable candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than a forced labour programme of a communist state that is used to fund its efforts to repress its own citizenry ...
“IT’S JIST GREAT to see folk coming round wi’ oor side’s leaflets son”. So said an old woman in Brickfield, Stonehaven, a few weeks before the referendum in 2014. She had been bombarded by Yes ...
IRONICALLY enough it was a former campaign manager of the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson who first coined the name of the political strategy that’s probably had the biggest influence on the Scottish Government’s ...
LAST WEEK saw some unwelcome headlines. ‘Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share trading hub’ crowed the Financial Times.
At one level the headline is shocking as London’s position in financial services is ...
ONE OF THE THINGS that I love about Scotland is our cultural tradition of thinking creatively. We seem to be blessed with a distancing that is not available to more urbanised communities living with more ...
FAILING AND DELAYED procurement projects are burning a very big hole in Scottish taxpayers’ pockets – SNP ministers’ can’t seem to stop themselves from scuppering contracts they oversee themselves.
Take the scandal ...
A LOT OF HEAT can be produced from economic forecasts, but as we know from the Brexit debate such modelling efforts do not really shed light on the future. Events have a habit of taking ...
AT JUST THE MOMENT when post-Brexit Britain should be seizing global opportunities – not least in the long-neglected Commonwealth – the spectre of Scottish (and Northern Irish and Welsh) independence is on the march again. ...
YOUNG PEOPLE face more than enough challenges these days without also having to cope with Covid-19. The pandemic has shattered their world in so many different ways principally by reducing or, in some cases, ...
THE UNION OF SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND has been a force for good, not just in Britain but globally over the last three centuries. It has helped provide mutual prosperity, security, benefits of scale, cultural creativity, ...
NOW THAT we have satnav, it’s rare to feel the frustration of travelling in a car where the driver resolutely heads in the wrong direction despite being told repeatedly that ‘it’s the other way!’
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WHAT MUST it be like to be Donald John Trump at this very moment? Imagine, if you can; you have lost an election that you guaranteed you would win, have seen a mob organised in ...