FOR ALL THE FOOTSOLDIERS : HOW DO YOU FEEL?

A great deal is being written about the star players of the SNP leadership race: “Who should be leader of the SNP? Should it be Humza?  Or Ash? Or should it be Kate?” And most of it isn’t an examination of what they propose to do or whether they know how...

Douglas Ross is Wrong.

DOUGLAS ROSS IS WRONG. In a recent article in The National, Douglas Ross proposesing that Holyrood have an Upper House, a House of Lairds in response to “a succession of bad laws passed in Holyrood”. Actually isn’t so bad in theory. Numerous democracies around...

A TINY OVERSIGHT

A TINY OVERSIGHT One of the purposes of this blog is to protect you from people who are wrong. These people exist and many of them are on the internet. I know. It’s true. But don’t worry.  I am here, to protect you from their wrongness.  I have this argument now and...

RESOLVE

Resolve When I was a kid, my parents took me to a department store in Glasgow.   There was a Santa’s grotto in the toy section.  We could meet him in person.  At these events, a special ritual is enacted across the Western world.  The parents introduce the child to...