Sturgeon's Scotland offers a model for America’s enemies of freedom and order

ON BOTH SIDES of the Atlantic, two sets of agitators are indulging in victimhood. Their aim is to try and acquire or consolidate power.

In the United States left-wing radicals are exploiting ...

Scottish Conservative & Unionist? What’s in a name?

CONCERNED that during this lockdown its readers, their children and their children’s children might be suffering academic deprivation, Think Scotland has come up with its very own essay question.

Proposition: The current ...

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She's not the Madonna, she's a very nippy sweetie

IT IS AN ODD THING to live through a crisis. One expects it to be sudden, and then over as quickly. The truth is just like with the financial crash of 2008, the 2020 Covid-19 ...

Boris’s gamble

AS I WRITE, I have no idea if Dominic Cummings will eventually fall on his sword, deciding à la Alastair Campbell that the advisor has to go when he becomes the story. 

Sturgeon’s Intolerance of dissenting views is not entirely bad

THANKS TO A VOTE by the Scottish parliament on 19 May, some transparency has been restored to the workings of the devolved administration. Severe curbs on freedom of information that were hastily introduced by Nicola ...

'Stay Alert?' Johnson trusts the people – Sturgeon does not

THE UNEASY STAND-OFF did not last long. The First Minister of Scotland seems not to know what ‘stay alert’ means and has made it very clear those living in Scotland should “stay home,” with unsubtle ...

Nurses and farmers should define our futures, not unionists and nationalists

WITH ALL that is going on in the world, to think that there are still people in Scotland talking about the constitution is just pathetic, and shows just how shallow our politics and those who ...

Universally Based Indifference will not help the poor.

NICOLA STURGEON has suggested that a Universal Basic Income may be an idea whose time has come.  Actually, it’s more probable that it’s another bandwagon she’s realised it would be good to jump on. UBI is, ...

The retreat of reason accelerates in Scotland

THE GRIM TRUTH about politics in Scotland for at least twenty years is that it disproportionately attracts  destructive people (warriors or else those unable to promote improvement) rather than builders or visionaries.  Office holders predominate who achieve ...

Bunker down for the Contango Fandango that Scotland's missing out on

OIL HAS TAKEN QUITE A BEATING in recent weeks. A rollercoaster of policy gaffes by Washington and European countries has seen oil demand slump from Covid-19's forced shutdown of the global economy while the Saudis ...

As long as Tories underestimate the ruthlessness of their foes, Britain is in peril

NEVER IN ITS HISTORY has the European Union been faced with a crisis of such gravity as now, owing to the coronavirus exacerbating the systemic failings of the single currency. But, at the same time, ...

Community peace is a casualty of Sturgeon’s type of rule

NICOLA STURGEON has pulled off the feat of shrinking the size of the Scottish political stage in order to accommodate her own needs as a ruler. Most decisions are taken with a single, overriding calculation ...