
Kafka’s Castle and the closed doors of Holyrood
THERE IS A SPECIFIC, QUIET HORROR in realizing that the record of a journey has been wiped clean. I was

THERE IS A SPECIFIC, QUIET HORROR in realizing that the record of a journey has been wiped clean. I was

MOST SEASONED OBSERVERS of political campaigning realise an individual poll is only ever a snapshot of a particular moment. Care

ONE OF THE REASONS I was attracted to Malcolm Offord becoming leader of Reform UK Scotland, was that he not

REFORM’S EMERGENCE has unsettled something in Scottish public life. It has done so largely because it challenges a long-standing and

REFORM’S Scotland conference at Bishopton last Thursday marked another watershed for the party. The party introduced its 73 candidates and

IN THIS WEEK’S Scotsman I wrote about how “Brexit Derangement Syndrome” lives rent free in the minds of many politicians,

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform

I WAS DELIGHTED recently to hear Kathryn Porter in Edinburgh give a tour-de-force guide to Scotland’s energy position. Kathryn is

FORTY YEARS AGO when I was at Oxford, the SWP, aka the Socialist Workers Party, were a thing. They sold