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For many people old enough to remember, June 7, 1978, will live long in infamy as the day that Scottish sport died. On that date our national...
In the suffocating cocoon of today’s 24/7, opinion-frenzied world, it’s tempting to believe that everything is unprecedented and the worst example...
All political careers end in failure and, if the lessons of history are anything to go by, some of the biggest failures are those who go at a time of...
Despite the many undoubted benefits of modern communications technology, there are some egregious drawbacks. The ubiquitous ability to access and...
It’s a general rule of politics, as it is in life, that when you’re backed into a corner and have nothing else to say, you should mention the...
In times of political turmoil, it’s comforting to seek historical comparisons with current events as a way of assuring ourselves that we have been...
Long before she had developed a booming, baritone timbre and an air of psychopathic omniscience, Margaret Thatcher sought to persuade swathes of the...
Anyone seeking fictional forewarning of the dystopic nightmare of a second Trump administration might consider the 1979 film Being There, in which a...
To misquote the great PG Wodehouse, it is never difficult to distinguish a teacher with a grievance from a ray of sunshine. With the possible...
Asked to name the most pressing challenges facing governments north and south of the border, most people would point to low economic growth,...
Could Britons ever vote for someone like Donald Trump? It is a question exercising the minds of many rational, fearful people in these parts, as the...
Depending on your footballing allegiances, the ongoing soap opera in the G52 postcode of Glasgow is either a tragedy of ancient Greek proportions, or...
There was a time when political parties in the US and the UK laid claim to the fabled title of being “the natural party of government”. In the...
Events currently unfolding and economic, social and political forces that have impacted the lives of people in the UK since 2008, will take decades...
In the painfully slim journal of Scottish sporting greatness, there is a chapter that remains little referenced and, if landed upon by...
Have you heard the Christmas fairy tale about the prince and the spy? An odious royal, who happens to be the King’s brother, gets in league with...
There are some things so irrationally, quintessentially British that they defy categorisation, or even explanation. I’m not talking about quaint...
When my dear old grandmother was in politically expansive mood, she would often opine that the best way to sort out Britain’s (in her view,...
One of the most predictable developments following a violent outrage, or exposure of abuse or wrongdoing, is the slew of subsequent new stories...
I can clearly remember reading about the death of Elvis Presley as I walked across Glasgow's Arran Drive, at the foot of Mosspark Avenue. It was on...
For anyone with even a vague sense of history, one of the most perplexing things about the current age of populism is how it has normalised the...
If the first duty of a government is to keep its citizens alive, then the government at all levels in Spain, has epically failed the people of...
The public revelation by Sir Chris Hoy that he has an untreatable form of cancer, which started in his prostate, was a selfless act by a remarkable...
The Scottish Government’s decision to scrap free bus travel for asylum seekers is, in the words of the Scottish Greens’ transport spokesman Mark...
The key to understanding what made Alex Salmond tick is to know that he was a gambler. Depending on who you speak to, his habit ranged from...
One of the first things you notice when visiting Denmark is how utterly, beguilingly pleasant everyone is. Unlike their counterparts in Germany,...
The cut to the winter fuel allowance, rows over ministers accepting gifts and donations, conflicted advisers working at the heart of Downing...
Who doesn’t love a freebie? I mean, what’s not to love? You get something you can’t afford, or wouldn’t otherwise buy for yourself, and it’s free....
“The people have spoken, the bastards,” declared Democrat hopeful Dick Tuck in his concession speech, following defeat in the 1962 California...
You wonder what went through Alex Salmond’s mind when a producer from Firecrest Films called to ask him to participate in a documentary called “...
“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to...
Long ago and in a different life, when I lived in Edinburgh, I used to dread festival time, not least because my place of work was just off the...
Who benefits, asks Neil Oliver in a recent episode of his doomsday monologues on YouTube, understatedly entitled “Civil War”. Attired in a fluffy...
In a depressing survey of electric car use published this week, the most significant statistic was that only 1.4 per cent of motorists in Scotland...
The Olympics is one of the few occasions when we have an opportunity to feel collectively and unashamedly British, without the distracting taint of...
Paul Wilson was a Lance Corporal in the Royal Highland Fusiliers and a member of the regimental band, who played at some of Britain’s highest...
I was not even a year old when England won the football World Cup in 1966. While I have no memory of the event or its aftermath, it has cast a long...
The polls had yet to open, far less close, when the predictions began. The 2024 General Election would be remembered as the moment when the threat...