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For people of my generation, porn was something you found in bushes on the way to school or in your friend’s father’s toolbox. The reason buses...
Well, what the hell was that about? A week ago, last Monday, we were all going about our lives, getting up for work, going to Lidl for our mince, and...
Asked which issue is most important to them when casting their vote few, if any, Scots would say the cost of building ferries. Fewer still would...
Some policies are so flawed that their catastrophic shortcomings can be articulated in a single image. General election campaigns are peppered with...
I knew there was a need for radical social and economic change when I first saw the £10 loaf. I’d heard the rumour of this fabled retail...
Were you still up when Michael Portillo lost his seat? It’s difficult to believe now that the genial presenter of TV railway journey programmes was...
The car you drive can say much about the kind of person you are and, for people who love their cars, that’s just the way they like it. In...
Every school had one: a golden girl or boy super-achiever who swept all before them and was voted one of the most likely to succeed, only to end up...
Every school had one: a golden girl or boy super-achiever who swept all before them and was voted one of the most likely to succeed, only to end up...
Every school had one: a golden girl or boy super-achiever who swept all before them and was voted one of the most likely to succeed, only to end up...
Do you ever long for a time when the world was a simpler and more enjoyable place, when food tasted better, people were more pleasant and tolerant,...
In some small way, George Galloway helped me to decide on my future career. As a student, I campaigned for him in the 1987 General Election, when he...
In some small way, George Galloway helped me to decide on my future career. As a student, I campaigned for him in the 1987 General Election, when he...
For someone who never ventured north of the Border if she could possibly avoid it, there’s a bitter irony that Margaret Thatcher continues to...
Do you believe that every morning is brighter and sunnier than the last; that simply getting out of bed is a special gift – another golden...
At what point do you admit that one of your longest standing friendships, which you’ve shared since way back when, has finally run its course? You...
That we never properly understand something until it’s considered in hindsight, has rarely been more evident than with the misogyny, in all its...
That we never properly understand something until it’s considered in hindsight, has rarely been more evident than with the misogyny, in all its...
The question of whether we have the right to know details of the private affairs of public figures is one that excites, and divides, opinion in equal...
As a young schoolboy, I recall the torture of the weeks leading up to the annual St Andrew’s Night Dance, when gym lessons were given over to...
It is telling that Humza Yousaf has waited almost a year in office to make his first significant speech on the economy. The beef of his presentation...
In the mid-1980s a friend moved from Glasgow to Los Angeles, where he met Javier, a fellow immigrant who had been born and raised in desperate poverty...
Radical political action usually happens in response to significant physical changes in circumstances experienced by voters, rather than from mere...
By I first came across Michelle Mone when she gave a speech at a journalists’ charity lunch in Glasgow in the early noughties. Addressing an...
The Court of Session’s landmark ruling that the UK Government was within its rights to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill should...
The Court of Session’s landmark ruling that the UK Government was within its rights to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill should...
The regular resurfacing of the row over the Elgin Marbles – and other hardy perennials, where Britain takes a high-handed stance against upstart...
You know you’re at the fag end of a government when the ruling party abandons the pretence of even trying. It’s like when both parties in a...
What constitutes objective reality? It appears that this most intractable of questions – first posed by Plato 2,500 years ago – has a simple...
As a child I remember the muffled voices of my soon-to-be-separated parents rowing noisily as I lay upstairs in bed, frightened and bewildered. I...
It’s a truism of political life that a party sinking in the polls and facing electoral defeat, inevitably reverts to its base. Nothing says panic...
The link between sport and politics has a long and distinguished history. From the 1936 Olympics in Berlin - when black, US athlete Jesse Owens...
The appearance of JK Rowling at a conference held to discuss violence and discrimination faced by women, earlier this month, was eclipsed by her less...
Before Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has had a chance to put pen to paper, to draft his party’s manifesto for the next Holyrood election,...