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Brian Monteith

Starmer’s lies on defence started with the Tories – neither are fit to resolve it

THANK GOODNESS for the respite! No matter how important it is that we get to the bottom of the SNP’s financial scandal (and it is important) it was set to…

June 12, 2026

Black-and-white image of a British Army helmet resting on a Cabinet table with an empty chair behind it, symbolising defence leadership and political responsibility.

Elsie Hunter

The secret sex lessons taking place in Scottish schools

Sex education in Scottish primary schools

Graeme Arnott

Pittock’s paradox: Why Scottish education needs to be more Scottish

Adam Smith, David Hume and Thomas Reid represent a Scottish intellectual tradition that once made the nation a global leader in education.

Audrey Dempsey

Common sense and multiculturalism: Why successful integration requires shared rules

Woman and children in burkas walking along a run-down UK residential street.

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Mark D on Common sense and multiculturalism: Why successful integration requires shared rules

An excellent article Audrey that illumi…

John McLean on The “Just Transition” myth: North Sea workers are being abandoned

Yes I agree with the analysis, I was a…

John McLean on I dropped a truth grenade in Holyrood – and watched MSPs flee rather than face it

This is my first perusal of the site an…

Jun 12, 2026

Human nature always wins: The fatal flaw in left-wing politics

MY BOOK, CLIMATE CHANGE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, explored the “science” of climate change and the flawed energy policy response, but also considered the psychology…

Human nature always wins: The fatal flaw in left-wing politics

Jun 11, 2026

Beyond Murrell: The five mistakes that broke the SNP

Stuart Crawford

WITH THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY'S POLITICAL STANDING at its lowest ebb for decades and the Scottish independence movement now holed below the waterline by…

Beyond Murrell: The five mistakes that broke the SNP

Jun 8, 2026

From the front-line as a councillor: Why more Scots are turning to Reform

Claire Mackie-Brown

SINCE JOINING REFORM UK in February 2025, I have found myself in a unique position within Scottish local government. As far as I am…

From the front-line as a councillor: Why more Scots are turning to Reform

Jun 8, 2026

Scotland’s malaise: The need for a full separation of powers

NICOLA STURGEON'S RESIGNATION IN 2023 signalled the beginning of the end of the SNP (as I suggested on Think Scotland), prompted as now seems…

Scotland’s malaise: The need for a full separation of powers

Jun 5, 2026

The SNP wants to move on: Scotland should not

WILL THERE BE a public inquiry into the financial affairs of the SNP during the period when Peter Murrell was its chief executive? That…

The SNP wants to move on: Scotland should not

Jun 4, 2026

What if I’d got Murrell’s job?

Stuart Crawford

UP HERE, NORTH OF THE BORDER, in Bonnie Scotland, it’s hard to get away from the wall-to-wall coverage in the media of the Murrell/Sturgeon…

What if I’d got Murrell’s job?

Jun 3, 2026

Positive discrimination is still discrimination

THE CIRCUMSTANCES around the tragic murder of Henry Nowak should not be used to encourage the woke ideology that the world is made up…

Positive discrimination is still discrimination

Jun 1, 2026

Scotland’s Mrs Midas: The cost of looking away

IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO, the Murrells have been the gift that keeps on giving, much as for twelve years party coffers were…

Scotland’s Mrs Midas: The cost of looking away

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