Today is 1,630 days since the UK narrowly voted for Brexit â and Scotland along with Northern Ireland voted Remain. ‘Taking Back Control’ was meant to be simple, smooth and…
Over the past two months, I’ve spent much time packing and unpacking piles of books: putting them into boxes, labelling them, taking them out of boxes, and putting them up…
The past 18 months have witnessed tumultuous, unprecedented times for everyone on this planet. A global pandemic has ripped through our lives turning them upside-down and in the process killing…
Glasgow Rangers FC have returned to the top of the football game in Scotland. At the same time, twice in the space of two months a section of their fanbase…
These are times of huge challenge â globally, in the UK and Scotland â and an age where we need to get serious, mobilise and prioritise, given the scale of…
The UK is undergoing one of its periodic spasms of concern about Tory sleaze and corruption. Two complacencies underpin much of this coverage. The first is about Boris Johnson’s unique…
Last week, one story gripped part of Scotland. It wasn’t COVID-19 or the independence majority in two polls. Rather, it was the fallout from the Kirsty Wark programme on the…
John Lennon would have been 80 this Friday. To add to the poignancy, two months later is the 40th anniversary of 8 December 1940, when Lennon was killed in front…
The Beatles still fascinate, mesmerise and speak to us â a timeless phenomenon from post-war British society and another age and world. Peter Jackson’s opus The Beatles: Get Back â…
The aftermath of the murder of David Amess has rightly seen a huge public reaction to the politics of hatred and violence, and a yearning for things to be different….