The left shouldn’t ignore the importance of sport – and Scotland doesn’t need to accept losing its talentRead More »From Greenock to the Super Bowl along the road to prosperity and social mobility
Once again the Catholic Church has converted an important question about the nature of religion in education into an inverted witch-hunt
Read More »Denominational schooling and the manufacture of victimhood
The Tory Government’s plan for a competition to identify innovation is an X-Factor answer to a Nobel question
Read More »Where Dragons’ Den should stop and some proper work begin
Salmond’s views on rugby opens up a difficult question for balanced discussion of Scotland’s future
In today’s Scotsman academic Arthur Midwinter claims that the Scottish Government is not being honest about statistics. This would not make them an isolate case…
Read More »Entirely neutral government statistics? Really? Where?
Rector-elect of Edinburgh University looks at the proposals for reform of the governance of universities and finds a promising start.
Read More »This is real progress in the reform of universities
Sometimes it really is a bit galling to hear Westminster politicians criticising the level of scrutiny at Holyrood – and today is one of those days…
Read More »Parliamentary democracy and the art of the expected
People on the left might be expected to be first in line to celebrate the removal of Fred Goodwin’s knighthood – but we know a distraction when we see one…
Read More »Why amn’t I cheering about the lynching of Goodwin?
Not only is Knighthood-gate a distraction from the rest of the annual bonus round, can it be a coincidence it comes as the Welfare Bill makes the commons?