The response to a protest against an anti-immigration, xenophobic political party has been as hard to believe as it has been distorted. The impact on Scottish politics is alarming.
Read More »Farage debacle a chill wind for Scottish politics
Disclosure is telling facts; transparency is telling facts with the expectation that you will be held to account. Why does Better Together not seem to know the difference?
Read More »The difference between disclosure and transparency
Article for Scotsman on Thatcher’s legacy – she succeeded politically and culturally but structurally she failed Britain completely.
The British State’s attitude to inquiries is like the Hapsburg’s attitude to marriage – who cares if the outcome is deformity and an inability to function properly. So long as we don’t let outsiders meddle in our affairs we’ll still be Kings of the World., even if we can’t see and our fragile skeleton will no longer sustain our weight.
The so-called whisky industry is calling our bluff once again. If only we had the courage to stand up to their distorted PR and demand that Scotland benefit from its own assets.
Read More »One more bluff from the so-called whisky industry
The Scottish Politician of the Year nominations appear to reward a certain kind of politics – those that are moving towards the right…
Claiming the spurious poll on NATO membership tells us anything shows a complete disregard for the science of measuring opinion
It’s not just that Sir Sandy Crombie is so utterly ridiculous in his defence of Creative Scotland, its that he reveals the utter hypocrisy at the heart of public police in Britain
The campaign against the welfare state is now in full flow in Scotland. As we gear up to fight it, this is a simple guide to who is in the campaign, how its strategy works and the lexicon through which it is delivered.
Read More »The campaign against the welfare state – know your enemy
The use of opinion polls by lobby groups is not to gather information but to create false opinions and use those to make politicians think the public is on the side of big money. We need to get wiser about opinion polls or we’re going to start falling for this stuff like they do in the US.
Read More »83 per cent of people say opinion polls are rubbish