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David LeaskHerald Scotland |
Are we doing nationalism and unionism wrong? I think it is about time we asked this question. We are coming up for a quarter of a century of...
It is the noblest prospect a Scotchman ever sees. The high road, as Samuel Johnson quipped, to England. For most of the last three or four centuries...
With straggly grey hair and a well lived-in anorak, he sure looked the part. It is more than three decades since I encountered my first properly mad...
Did you get the best education in the world? Did your parents? Or even theirs? Politicians seem to think so. Over the last few days there has been a...
It was, said the general secretary of the University and College Union, an act of “academic vandalism”. Aberdeen this week became the first of...
It was, said the general secretary of the University and College Union, an act of “academic vandalism”. Aberdeen this week became the first of...
They are cutting up a tonne of cabbage this week in Alba Iulia. Come Friday the whole lot will be cooked up with sausage in giant cauldrons and then...
He did not want his face in the papers. Or on the TV. As he walked out of Dundee Sheriff Court this week Carl O’Brien – like so many who get in to...
In Glasgow’s Alexandra Park there is a simple block of polished granite that sometimes sparkles in the rain. Etched in gold on its surface is a...
Remember Boris Johnson’s bridge to Ireland? The last PM but one said and did so many preposterously stupid things that it is maybe easy to let this...
There is an ugly little word that keeps being used by some of the very worst people in Britain: quisling. It is hard to understand why anybody...
LET me tell you something very weird. And be rather petty as I do so. There are people – usually on the internet – with tremendously strong...
Please let me start this column with a declaration of interest, a confession of bias. I belong to the Dennis the Menace Fan Club. My membership card...
It was one of those ‘oh my’ moments. This week Andrew Bowie, the grin, haircut and suit for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, went on the...
"Are we the baddies?” It is years since this line from a TV sketch show entered our language, our social media folklore, our culture. Most of us,...
There is a funny wee thing that happens every now and again in the House of Commons: somebody says something Scottish. Back in 2016 the culprit was...
One by one his followers have been put behind bars. And for long, long stretches. Years ago Gavin McInnes founded America’s far-right Proud Boys...
The image is blurry, black and white, perhaps a little out of focus. It shows a dishevelled, shoeless woman running in the street in her underwear,...