Day: 11 June 2026

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

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.

IN THE FINAL PAGES  of his new book The Shortest History of Scotland, Murray Pittock lays out a disconcerting irony: Scotland, once the world’s great educator, now has an education system that is less Scottish than it has ever been. This raises a rather perplexing question: how did we end up with a Scottish education […]

Beyond Murrell: The five mistakes that broke the SNP

Beyond Murrell: The five mistakes that broke the SNP The first SNP Government led by Alex Salmond

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 the Murrell embezzlement scandal, it is worth looking beyond the current political fallout and examining some of the areas where the SNP clearly went wrong in the past. Having been an […]