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THERE has been a craze in theatre for dramas where actors play multiple parts. A production of The 39 Steps saw four actors taking on 139 roles....
It’s almost impossible to quell feelings of sheer, bleak nihilism when contemplating the state of government at both a Scottish and UK level. The...
If you’re feeling benevolent, you could perhaps say that like all battle-hardened veterans of a certain age who’ve earned their stripes, the SNP...
My family and friends had a little get-together on Saturday night. There was good food and wine, laughter, and music. Around midnight, we were still...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Economically, the SNP-Green government has presided over disaster, as...
Any unfortunate independence supporters still labouring under the misapprehension that the Yes movement will come out of the upcoming General Election...
SOMETIMES I wonder what it would be like to have a son. My wife and I have two wonderful daughters. They’re grown up, forging careers and...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. You've got to feel some pity for Humza Yousaf. He’s not a bad guy....
If I wish, I can say religion is a belief system for idiots. If you wish, you can call a trans woman a man. The freedom to be unnecessarily...
IT’S been a strange, discomfiting time lately in Scotland. Talk of hate has lain over the country like a sheen of cold fever-sweat on the body. ...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. There's many failures to lay at the feet of the SNP-Green government,...
You can feel the winds of culture war already blowing around Holyrood’s Assisted Dying Bill, and it was only lodged in Parliament yesterday and...
At last, after years of division, the leaders of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party have come together in the face of a terrible national...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. The SNP finds itself in a curious and unsettling position this weekend...
BACK in the deep past, it’s thought our ancient ancestors consumed kings and queens, literally ate them, probably after death. At the root of this...
Everything has worked out just fine for Scotland’s most notorious spymaster. Brigadier Gordon Kerr from Aberdeen, who’s now in his late 70s, can...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. There's been some very unfair headlines in the press regarding the...
The Broken Window Theory was once all the rage within law enforcement. The idea is this: if police show zero tolerance for minor offences like...
The housing crisis unlocks the reasons for Scotland’s political dysfunction with the elegance of a Pythagorean equation. The parts of the equation...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It would, perhaps, be easier and more fun to mock the Scottish...
My old pal Professor Matt Qvortrup must be delighted. Matt is one of the smartest folk I know. An expert on independence movements worldwide, he’s...
Today, SNP Finance Secretary Shona Robison asks parliament to vote for her draft budget. On the menu is a £196 million cut in funding for...
Scientists have discovered “the biggest and hungriest” black hole, spinning monstrously in the depths of space. It consumes matter equivalent to...
When my children were very young they’d sometimes cheat at board games. On rainy Sundays, we’d pull out Monopoly and try teaching them some life...
Let's talk about the eggs of Lilliput. There’s some lessons for Scotland in the tale. Lilliput, the land imagined by Jonathan Swift in...
Here's a bald statement of fact. Article Three of the US Constitution defines treason as “adhering to” or “giving aid and comfort” to...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Might Northern Ireland get there first? Might the union die in the Irish...
Everything the SNP once stood for is being shredded at the Covid Inquiry. The very clothes it wore are in tatters. The garb of honesty and integrity...
I’VE read the news coverage of knife crime in Britain of late with the words ‘there but for the grace of God go I’ in my mind. Our society is...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Last week, I pondered on these pages if the disintegration of global...
Recently I had a conversation with a very high-ranking British civil servant who has worked right at the heart of the UK Government. It crystallised...
A curious event occurred this weekend. Carol Vorderman, someone I often find myself in agreement with politically, appeared to abandon the very...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. If Scotland was independent – which it clearly isn’t – then Humza...
Sometimes, during family dinners, when we’re talking about the wild and fearsome events sweeping the world, I’ll look across the table to the...
We're back in Rwanda fantasy-land today. The Tory immigration bill returns to Parliament. It faces the ire of Conservative rebels who claim it’s...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It seems that Sturgeonism is rapidly becoming a thing of the past in...
THIS isn’t just about dangerous dogs. It’s about the bovine stupidity of the Scottish Government. Though that sentence may be unfair to cows....
I’M STRAIGHT, so the idea that someone could try to make me gay or surrender my heterosexuality, either through prayer or some form of counselling,...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. Let’s hope Santa is kind to Humza Yousaf. He’s going to need...
I loved my father-in-law Jimmy very much. One of the hardest years of my life was watching him die of cancer. He was just 48. So young. I’m only...
Cops, teachers, nurses, fire-fighters. My family is full of public servants. Let me tell you this about them: they’re exhausted and angry. All...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. It’s hard to see how Piers Morgan survives. Then again, this is the...
I’VE a confession. I’m unfit for society. I’m a medieval German serial killer, you see. Alternatively, my social exclusion should be predicated...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. The Conservatives' Rwanda Bill is an assault on the rule of law which...
Readers seldom learn what happens after victims of childhood violence or abuse lift their anonymity. What the world witnesses is the single moment of...
Any writer who dares correct the legend HG Wells must be either stupid or so arrogant their head is the size of a 1970s space-hopper. Well, it...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. One of the great pleasures of newspaper journalism is the letters page....
MUCH pointing and laughing has been done when it comes to Rishi Sunak’s half-mast trousers, the hems hovering a few perturbing inches above his...
Defeat at the next General Election. How can the SNP expect anything else? The party has been engulfed in scandal after scandal. It’s offered...
This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter. If anyone imagines Scotland is immune to the far-right virus sweeping...
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