We are heartened by the recent remarks by the Deputy First Minister that she is considering strengthening the provisions for ...

The astonishing revelations about the lack of democracy within the Alba party keep coming. On March 1 the blogger Craig ...

Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, Born to Rule: the making and remaking of the British Elite, Harvard University Press 2024.

It’s Winter in our world: harsh, unforgiving. Will it ever end? Yet Spring is coming: the seeds are sown, and green shoots ...

The Opening Address to the Convention on Scotland’s Future Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh, 1 March 2025 Alastair ...

America is a shadow of itself and now cast a dark shadow across the world. The spectacle in the Oval Office was a disgraceful ...

From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn Before he became a politician, “Sir” Keir Starmer was the Director of Public ...

As Keir Starmer touches down in Washington the British media uniformly continue the now bizarre folklore of a ‘Special Relationship’ between Britain and the US. This is long past its ...

Necropsy – meaning: an examination of a body after death. Today Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that defence spending will ...

It has become completely normalised that we live in a society that has a built-in bias in its media. The landscape of ...

I like the idea of Bella as a Sandbox, a lab for ideas, a space where people can run with things and try them out. This has ...

Paul Mason has been widely criticised, for good reason imho, but some of his analysis here was right. But where I think he’s ...