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This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater should have quit as Green Party...
My position on nuclear weapons reflects that of many folk, I reckon. Like a mountain switchback road, it has altered course at times over my life. ...
I knew Still Wakes the Deep was special when it blind-sided me with an insulin joke that Kevin Bridges would be proud to have written. For the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It makes you pine for the good old days of the Cold War. That wasn’t a...
I’m beginning to feel like Benjamin the Donkey in Animal Farm. Benjamin lived so long, the world turned him cynical. He knew that whether the pigs...
All Prime Ministers have a grand vision for the nation, though they seldom express it clearly. We must intuit their megalomanic mission from the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It's a sorry indictment of this country that opponents of Nicola...
Picture yourself in 1995 and your average day. I was 25. Every morning I got the train to work. Onboard, everyone read newspapers, magazines or...
Occasionally, we find ourselves without the necessary words to express an emotion or idea because the language hasn’t yet been invented. Over the...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Unfortunately, I’ve met far too many psychopaths throughout my life....
There's a speech at the end of Christopher Marlowe’s play Doctor Faustus which stands as eulogy for the political careers of so many leaders from...
If humanity survives this cursed century, I imagine our future ancestors looking back and wondering if it wasn’t the way we entertained ourselves...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. There's a strange imbalance in Scottish society. As a nation, we’re...
Since I hit 50, my life has become a bad British sitcom, featuring me as the halfwit man-child character causing chaos while his family watches in...
Hieronymous Bosch was damn good at paintings of humans in hell, yet even he’d have struggled to capture the look of eternal damnation on Marco...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. For an accurate assessment of Keir Starmer’s White House pilgrimage,...
As the song goes, "all my life, there’s trouble in America". But never trouble like this, and never trouble that’s turned the United States in...
We've all been there. That moment when you realise you’re out of your depth professionally and start scrambling around for something – anything...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. There’s been what’s called ‘an instructive moment’ over on the...
I’ve spent a lot of time lately talking to disabled people and learning about their hopes and fears. It was a chastening experience. A large...
Want a good way to get the measure of someone? Look at their enemies. If the goon squad hates them, they’re probably a decent sort. The Scottish...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Recently, I spotted some graffiti which seemed to sum up what motivates...
There's a moment in Make it to Munich which floods you with happy-sadness, that feeling when you want to smile and cry at the same time, when the...
Somewhere in hell there’s a snowball laughing at Anas Sarwar. I’m old enough to remember last summer when everyone was convinced that the SNP...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. I’ve lost count of the number of historians and educators I’ve...
I’ve been thinking of democracies threatening democracies, of once great nations turning on their allies, of war crimes and liberty perishing, of...
This is a story I’ve never told. Frankly, it’s been too painfully intimate to recount, and when I was younger the story was the preserve of my...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Perhaps I should be thankful for Storm Eowyn, it’s certainly blown...
In the beginning, the drift to authoritarianism is a push-me pull-you exercise. The push side comes in two forms: fear and grooming. Fear doesn’t...
In the end, for the end has surely come, it was just a blip. The Liberal Order which governed our lives, the lives of our parents, and the lives of...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. “I had to change an incontinent, frail patient with dementia in the...
If you listened to the recent edition of Any Questions on Radio Four you’ll have got a flavour of just how contemptible the British public find Elon...
If the legends are true – and pray they’re not, as this legend is so awful it would whiten your hair – then James IV of Scotland was a monster...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Gloating, politically-motivated schadenfreude should never be a response...
In a world now mostly shorn of truth and authenticity, it is – with the kind of irony only a poet could marshal – to fiction we must turn if we...
There are now two inviolable rules of Scottish politics. The primary rule is this: independence support depends upon Westminster failure. The more...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. The Yes movement has been in need of fresh blood for quite some time, so...
I know it’s like asking some folk to moonwalk on a unicycle while doing handstands at an ice rink, but let’s try, just for a moment, to imagine...
Some folk believe I hate religion. Not true. Whoever wrote my Wikipedia entry (what a strange job that must be) might be nearer to the mark. They...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It’s quite something to come off as more unpleasant than Kemi Badenoch,...
I WAS chopping carrots in desultory fashion the other day when Radio 4’s PM programme gave me what the author William Burrough’s called a ‘naked...
Sir Keir Starmer's Christmas present to John Swinney is the pervading sense of hopelessness among the centre ground of Scottish voters. The new...
Independence is a project much better suited to opposition than government. It is, after all, quintessentially anti-establishment. That’s its...
The gatekeepers of culture in London are wearyingly dull - as pedestrian, derivative and unimaginative as Hollywood executives with their...
The future is here and it’s up for grabs. The protocols and ideas which dominated the West from 1945 now exist only in the minds of centrist...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It appears that while Nigel Farage knows he won’t become the UK’s...
The SNP is on its way to becoming the Ozymandias party. If you know Percy Shelley’s eponymous poem, you’ll get the similarities. In Ozymandias,...
I WANT to say "I get it", which I do. But I also want to say "this is unfair, in fact, it’s even cruel." I understand - partially - why some are...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It’s common to hear those of a republican persuasion refer to the Royal...
In an age when the cult of youth has never mattered more or swept more away, I remain an unrepentant and unfashionable believer in the wisdom of...
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