A Fox In The Living Room
From the moment the Conservative Party was elected in 2010, certain elements within the government have been on a mission to destroy the BBC. Their agenda is plainly ideological. They don’t think...
View ArticleSold Down The River
I have a confession to make. I didn’t watch one single minute of the Scotland debate in the Commons this afternoon. I’d like to tell you it’s because I wasn’t able to see it because I’d been awesomely...
View ArticleDo Ya Feel Lucky Punk?
It’s one of the most famous scenes in all of film history. Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry Callahan goes into his neighbourhood coffee shop, where they’ve been serving him for nine years, and he orders...
View ArticleEverything Is Broken
It was Bob Dylan who first wrote the words “the answer my friends is blowing in the wind.” When the song came out, he was 21. He talked about the inspirations behind it, saying “I still say that some...
View ArticleEvery Loser Wins
There’s said to be an old Chinese curse that goes “May you live in interesting times …” I can’t help but think Alex Salmond brought a little bit of magic dust back with him the last time he visited the...
View ArticleBreaking The Silence
I remember the first trip I took outside Glasgow, after 18 September. I wrote about it on this blog, where I described seeing Yes paraphenalia everywhere and thinking “this country is haunted now.”...
View ArticleThe Guardians Of The Establishment
When I started this website I spent a while pondering what to call it, and then I was inspired by a piece I read in The Guardian, in its Comment section, which as everyone knows is called Comment Is...
View ArticleMore Monkey Business
Hot on the heels of dreadful numbers and a collapse in internal discipline at Labour in Scotland, the English version of The Sun is today carrying an incendiary quote. It comes from a party “insider”...
View ArticleA Mile Down The Road
If you saw the Andrew Marr show this morning you’ll have caught something pretty outrageous. You’ll have seen a Tory minister say, on the air, with no contradiction at all, that Scotland voting for the...
View ArticleHow To Rig A Referendum
At some point during the last 36 months, there would have been a meeting at Langley, Virginia, the home of the Central Intelligence Agency, when a senior analyst, faced with the top brass of the...
View ArticleA Year On Down The Line
So, twelve months has passed already, eah? Does it feel, for you, like it does for me? That it all went by in the blink of an eye? That it seems like yesterday that we got up full of optimism and went...
View ArticleA Knife In The Heart
Tomorrow the Scottish electorate will stand in front of the party who once ruled this country. Many of us will have knives in our hands, with the explicit intention of stabbing in the heart a party...
View ArticleThe Terrible Truth About Labour: Even If I Wanted To Go Home, I’m No Longer...
Of all the tragedies to befall politics on this island, one of the worst is to see Labour reduced to its shocking state of infighting and blood-letting. As a Scot I’m pleased to have an alternative I...
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