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The following article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Journalists aren’t supposed to ‘look away’. We’re meant to...
It sounds paradoxical - indeed it is paradoxical - but scarcity is ubiquitous today. Nothing is everywhere. At my local supermarket yesterday, shelves...
I was a ghoulish child at times. Obsessed with Hammer Horror movies, my bedroom was filled with glow-in-the-dark models of Dracula and Frankenstein;...
The following article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It’s striking how little folk are talking about the death of BBC...
There has been some astonishing nonsense spouted over the SNP’s plan to bring buses under public control, not least from members of the industry who...
You know that habit most of us have where we go on holiday and come back trying to recreate some wonderful experience? It’s usually a recipe,...
There's a strange fairy tale quality to life in the 2020s. In fairy tales, there’s often a child character who is desperately lost and trying...
The following article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. There's something very peculiar and troubling going on under...
If you want an easy explanation for how private equity works, watch Goodfellas. Martin Scorsese’s gangster movie has a famous scene in which a bunch...
We should take cheer in intelligent politics when we see it these days. The Scottish and UK governments have a less than noble history of playing...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Where exactly is rock bottom for America? How low can that nation sink?...
I find myself full of admiration for the young people of France. Unlike so many protestors here at home – usually middle-aged men in black masks...
Today we seem content to just watch as the pillars of society built by our ancestors are torn down and destroyed one by one. The NHS has been...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Scottish independence already exists in a strange quantum state. If you...
In September 1988, I walked out of the front door of my parents’ house and didn’t come back until Christmas Eve. I was off to university. In the...
Hollywood, and the rest of the American film and TV industry, has never been just about entertainment. It’s a values machine. Domestically, it...
It seems the dead are easily forgotten. Men like Michael McGoldrick, Robert Hamill and Frank O’Reilly. Women like Rosemary Nelson. Children like...
There is a long history of Scots right at the top of Britain’s intelligence services. Meta Ramsay, from Glasgow, who I got to know well before her...
Here's a story about two Englishmen. The first was a very famous journalist, a doyen of the liberal media. During dinner with him, and a flock of...
Every time my wife and I go shopping these days, I’ll wait until her back is turned and then slip some tins of repellent awfulness into the trolley:...
I keep getting struck by disturbing similarities between myself and Andy Burnham. I don’t mean this in a positive way - for either of us. You...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. I’m not sure that the BBC could manage to offend and irritate Scots more...
I suppose I should be grateful to William and Kate Windsor. Not for any grovelling reason. I’m certainly no monarchist. But for knocking the last...
It’s the 1950s obedient housewife vibe that really shocks when you see the picture. It demands a double-take. There she is, Nicola Sturgeon, playing...
Soap opera symbolism is always clunky. When scriptwriters want to add some subtext, they don’t tend to follow the Tennessee Williams’s formula for...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Here's the publicly curated image: Nigel Farage, man of the people,...
When I was a kid, I loved the comic 2000 AD. I remember buying the first edition, which I still have and which is apparently worth a fortune, in 1977....
The victims of politics were once merely confined to the likes of you and I – ordinary voters who had their lives maimed and afflicted by the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Most of the Yes movement has long dismissed claims that the SNP isn’t...
It's difficult, if not impossible, to feel anything other than revulsion, and frankly hate, towards American social media giants. The equivalence...
It didn’t take me long as a young journalist to realise all was not well with my profession. I became a reporter long ago, in 1991. Margaret...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. I still recall the first time I saw someone sleeping rough. It was during a...
THERE’S a distinct whiff of barbarism in the way Scotland’s elected officials in the Highlands are behaving today. The matter centres on the bust...
The tragedy of my generation is that we were raised in a period when news and analysis moved slowly enough for even those who didn’t stay across...
It should revolt the entire nation that a Scottish academic is scared to speak about her work because of the colour of her skin. I met with Melanie...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. All eyes are currently on the strange, whacky and cowardly behaviour of...
I had a moment of intense middle-aged horror just before I went on my summer holiday. I was packing my suitcase and reached for my lovely...
Scotland seems divided into three distinct groups. There’s the 10% who obsessively hate Nicola Sturgeon. Hate is a strong word, but these folk...
First, a brief review. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is magnificent. I’ve a few gripes, which drop it from an A to a mere A, but none are to do...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. We were so close, yet so far. So close you could almost taste it - like poor...
I sometimes wonder whether much of the rage which swirls around these days is down to a collective sense of shame at our own suicidal stupidity as a...
I detest the type of person who is my age – mid-50s – and forever sneering at young folk. They forget we were once young – albeit in the last...
As matters stand today, Nicola Sturgeon will never get out from under the scandals that are plaguing her. Most political leaders leave office carrying...
It's impossible to be certain about how our ancestors lived in the ancient past. There’s no recorded history, after all. However, scholars are...
In Northern Ireland, where I’m from, there’s a weird, disturbing cultural quirk found in a minority of folk which, I’m afraid, gives me the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Only the psychopathic or sadistic could remain untroubled by the depths to...
I’ve a healthy distrust of tradition. Ironically, my suspicion was bred deep, from my formative years. It’s hard to respect tradition when...
I imagine one day in the not-so-distant future sitting with my grandchildren on my knee and telling them wild fairy tales so unbelievable that the...
Politics has always been about rich people and their money. Once it was courtiers fashioning themselves into camps to ensure they had the king’s...
Thomas Weber, professor of history at Aberdeen University, is recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis....
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