Our world is fragile and precarious. Markets tremble, alliances strain, leaders become impotent and people suffer. Insecurity is both the condition of our age and […] Read More
Scotland’s media is in crisis. This crisis is taking place on a number of levels and the symptoms are manifold. They include systemic declines in […] Read More
If Lord Ashcroft’s polling is correct, Labour faces an unprecedented defeat in Scotland at May’s general election. As the party struggles to maintain its heartlands […] Read More
For many, 2014 will be remembered for little that is astonishing or newsworthy. Instead a year may or may not be recalled based on the […] Read More
Last week the Labour Conference came and went with some carefully choreographed nationalist populism. It was made clear that, however the party may have felt, […] Read More
Dear Scotland… When you wake up on Friday, don’t change. A lot will have changed by then, obviously. A line will have been crossed, you’ll […] Read More
Over the coming days, with the upper echelons of Britain’s governing elite paying us a visit, a barrage of rhetoric about the benefits of union […] Read More
Even in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries, there were those who feared that British identity was too dependent on recurrent Protestant wars, commercial […] Read More
There are many stories about the referendum. Yet as journalists become ever more hooked on a daily diet of fanfares and milestones, too many quieter developments […] Read More
Contemporary Scotland is fragmented: but not along the lines of Yes and No. To find evidence of real fault lines, a short journey north from […] Read More