Enemies of the people in the promised land
“So it is worth reminding ourselves of how lucky we are to be living in the most peaceful, most prosperous, most progressive era in human history… if you had to choose a moment in history to be born,...
View ArticleJournalism or churnalism? Daisley affair symbolises Scottish media decline
Journalists are people too. When I first encountered the trade at the tender of age of 17, such a remark would probably be followed by a caustic “well, aye, but…” Today however it seems that the...
View ArticleGrammar schools and Britain’s class trauma
The political obsessions of a country are often highly revealing. At moments of crisis, such matters become all the more potent. Home truths are all the more palatable when uncertainty is king. A...
View ArticleOn the significance of grassroots politics
There is nothing special about the experience of attending a political gathering. Regulars will attest that they can often be frustrating and predictable affairs full of the usual suspects. They tend...
View ArticleOn the Post-Brexit Tory Party Conference
Across the world governments are having to deal with referendums delivering results that see the instigators fail to return their desired result. This week began with news of two abortive referendums....
View ArticleEurope solved the problem of Britain: only the SNP can save it now
Sovereignty and borders — the great political themes of the current crisis, were a defining feature of both the SNP and Tory party conferences. The casual observer could be forgiv en for seeing two...
View ArticleIn Trump’s new world, Scotland must speak for the stateless
Nigel Farage has already branded 2016 as a year of political revolution. Last week, the UKIP leader beamed, like a small boy on Christmas morning, as he proclaimed from a day-time TV sofa that...
View ArticleCan Scottish Labour find a way back from the brink in 2017?
If 2016 was the year when Scottish Labour was damaged, probably beyond repair, 2017 could well be the year that sees its final collapse. At Holyrood it is a husk: shorn of purpose and intellect. In the...
View ArticleComing of age: 2017 as year of resistance
If humanity is to have a recognizable future, it cannot be by prolonging the past or the present. If we try to build a third millennium on that basis, we shall fail. And the price of failure, that is...
View ArticleWhat is a trump? On the new POTUS and new media
What’s he doing now? Did you see it? What will he say next? How can I rebut his awfulness? Is he mad? What kind of mad is he? What does he mean? Is he serious? Did he really just say that? Whatever...
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