MY PREVIOUS ARTICLE in this series, The UK or EU - which is the model union for the Scottish fishing industry?, contrasted the way the European Union and the United Kingdom share out ...
IT HAS BEEN a difficult few weeks for Scotland in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our Prime Minister is sick in intensive care. He cuts a powerful figure because he is also now our Prime Patient. ...
SCOTLAND’S FIRST MINISTER is a boundless talker. Unfortunately for her there is only one inflection – boundless self-assertion. For five years she has used bluster and invective as the facts about how appallingly her administration performs ...
I HAVE BECOME the latest victim of the Coronavirus. I'm perfectly well though, not remotely infected, but my ancient Indesit washing machine has decided just now to silently leave this world, like tears in rain, ...
THE ESTABLISHMENT by Nicola Sturgeon of a separate Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) from that of the Prime Minister is a desperately worrying decision. The obvious thing to say first is that Dr Catherine ...
WE ARE TWO MONTHS into the world's most significant pandemic in decades. In terms of public concern only HIV struck as deep to the heart of the British people in this way. COVID19 is huge ...
HOPE SPRINGS eternal and the gushing of praise laid at the feet of Evita Sturgeon by unionist parties is irritating to many who realise the fight against an idea immune to logic has no rest, ...
A review of: Bruno Maçães, History has Begun, London: Hurst & Co, 2020
BOOKS FROM European authors which seek to lecture, condemn or ridicule America are legion. In the epoch of Donald Trump ...
AS MUCH AS it may upset regular readers to hear, Think Scotland is not the only place that you can find my semi-regular cinematic musings. Occasionally, when I’m quick enough off the mark to bagsy ...
SOMETIMES we can only know in hindsight how significant events have been. Not just events but eras too. Crescendos of logos, ethos and pathos that follow one another. That there is something inherently wrong, that ...
ONE OF THE MOST PERPLEXING outcomes of the ‘These Islands’ conference (first discussed here on 24 February) was the condescension or impatience displayed towards England. England’s poorer regions have made no objections to large ...
I WAS NOT FORTUNATE ENOUGH to attend the conference held by These Islands on the future of Scotland and the Union. Sometimes browsing the media can, however, be informative in a way being on the ...