Suicide – its not people killing themselves
More than 100 years on from his seminal book, we still haven’t learned Durkheim’s lessons about suicide
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From Greenock to the Super Bowl along the road to prosperity and social mobility
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
New Changing Scotland event announced
A weekend of politics, culture and ideas …. And fun! Friday March 23rd-Sunday March 25th
At the bottom of the rabbit hole, the UN
The sheer hypocrisy in the attacks on China and Russia’s Syria veto is mind-boggling
Call that a backlash?
If shouting ‘anti-business’ seems a bit weak, we can assume it is still only the beginning
Eyes open for the backlash
What a pleasure to see the bonus-vultures on the back foot for once – but it can’t last…
Denominational schooling and the manufacture of victimhood
Once again the Catholic Church has converted an important question about the nature of religion in education into an inverted witch-hunt
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Where Dragons’ Den should stop and some proper work begin
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
The BBC and the definition of ‘political’
Salmond’s views on rugby opens up a difficult question for balanced discussion of Scotland’s future
Sea bass and manufactured normality
David Cameron is in Morrisons picking up his messages? You’d think he was trying to differentiate himself from rich bankers or something…