THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT recently announced that, if Westminster fails to deliver a Conversion Practices Bill, it will not hesitate to
I LISTENED INTENTLY to Rupert Lowe’s rant at Nigel Farage about how to unite the right. The message was: “Do as
THERE IS A WAY of telling the story of this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) that has already been
THERE IS A GROWING SENSE in Scotland that the judiciary is not always operating purely as the independent constitutional safeguard
AARON SWARTZ believed the internet could set knowledge free. That may sound naïve now, after years of bot farms, algorithmic
THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS modern Britain keeps trying to avoid because people are terrified of being labelled. That is, in no
SINCE JOINING REFORM UK in February 2025, I have found myself in a unique position within Scottish local government. As
IT WAS A RELIEF to finally say publicly what I’ve believed for years. As I rose to deliver my maiden
FORTY YEARS AGO when I was at Oxford, the SWP, aka the Socialist Workers Party, were a thing. They sold
I RECENTLY STUDIED at a Scottish university and was shocked at what I discovered. I earn my crust as a