2016-03-19 18:53
Long suffering readers of this blog will be pleased to know that it will soon cease to be. I have gravitated to the sunlit uplands of Wordpress. Hopefully, if you click on this link, you wil… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
In the wake of the former CIA analyst Edward Snowden's revelations about state surveillance, I thought I'd reread George Orwell's 1984, written nearly70 years ago on the Island of Jura. I wa… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Neil Kinnock made a speech before the 1983 general election in which he said: "I warn you not to be old. I warn you not to get sick. I warn you not to lose your job..." Today, he might have… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It's not exactly been a happy pre-anniversary for the Yes Scotland campaign. Looking at the deluge of one-year-to-go opinion polls, the only sensible conclusion is that very little has chang… Read More
2013-10-04 07:29
Is politics back in fashion? People like me have been moaning for years about how all the parties are the same at Westminster, crowding the centre ground and pursuing synthetic focus g… Read More
2013-10-04 07:16
He may not move the voters, but Ed Miliband has certainly rattled David Cameron's cage. The PM name checked Labour no fewer than 25 times in his address to the Tory conference yesterday in M… Read More
2013-09-27 08:30
From Herald, 26/9/13Reaction to Ed Miliband's plan to freeze energy prices has been, well, electric. Energy UK warned of “black-outs”; Centrica said it might go out of business;… Read More
2013-09-06 17:23
Talk about an open goal. The most unpopular Chancellor since Nigel Lawson, George Osborne, came north again this week, bearing Treasury propaganda disguised as objective analysis - and he se… Read More
2013-08-22 13:38
"Snowden", "surveillance", "Islam" , "bomb", "terrorist". That's all it takes. Those key words, written in any order on an email - or indeed this column - could be enough for my name to be i… Read More
2013-08-12 10:12
Road to Referendum, the TV documentary. To be shown on ITV, 19th August 2013 at 10.30pm. Repeated, STV same night, 11.30. This is condensed version of… Read More
2013-08-12 10:05
from Sunday Herald, 10/8/13Suddenly, everyone's doing it. Following the royal baby. and the news that Edinburgh Zoo's giant panda, Tian Tian, may be pregnant, we hear that the birth rate i… Read More
2013-06-14 11:42
Another 'here's tae us' press release from the Scottish Government on jobs. “The employment rate is now higher in Scotland than in the other four nations of the UK”, it proclaims… Read More
2013-06-09 12:53
My documentary series on the national question "Road to Referendum", continues this week with part 2 on Tuesday at 8.00pm on STV. See the stars of the poll tax era - and I mean st… Read More
2013-06-08 11:35
from Herald 6/6/13The Herald-STV Road to Referendum documentary series was sabotaged by technical difficulties on Tuesday. Apparently 65% of viewers in Scotland were unable to watch the firs… Read More
2013-05-20 13:51
FROM HERALD “Do you think that the United Kingdom should remain a member of the European Union?”. That's the question that looks increasingly likely to be asked of Br… Read More
2013-05-20 13:44
FROM SUNDAY HERALDIt seems only yesterday that everyone was talking about a "Grexit" - the forecast, made by most of the UK press, that Greece was about to leave the European Union because o… Read More
2013-05-20 13:43
FROM SUNDAY HERALD. She was as divisive in death as she was in life - or so everyone has been saying about the passing of Lady Thatcher. In fact, you could equally argue the reverse. The Lef… Read More
2013-05-20 13:40
Wull ye no come back again, Arch Duke Franz of Bavaria? The Kirk dropped a constitutional bombshell into the referendum campaign last week by suggesting that Scottish monarchs should be crow… Read More
2013-05-20 13:22
It was typical of the Guardian to try to suggest some equivalence between Nigel Farrage's UKIP and Alex Salmond's Scottish National Party. At an editorial level the Guard… Read More
2013-04-08 09:26
David Cameron raised the stakes in the independence debate last week by insisting that it would be “foolish” to abandon Trident in the Clyde when there is a growing threat from c… Read More
2013-04-08 09:22
From Herald, 4/4/13 Scottish and Southern Electricity has been charged £10m by Ofgem for mis-selling its gas and electricity. Apparently, its telephone sales people w… Read More
2013-03-18 10:33
'Africa is giving nothing to anyone - apart from AIDS'. A rather nasty remark, and untrue. Africa gives us many things, including most of the world's gold and diamonds, and you can't blame a… Read More
2013-03-09 16:58
When the temperature fell below -11 even my Macbook froze. I didn't think they did that, but they do. When I finally thawed it out it had reset the date, for some reason, at 1st Februar… Read More
2013-03-01 09:40
Imagine being asked to pay your bank for the privilege of depositing your money in it. Most of us think that we are victims of reverse bank robbery already. But actually give… Read More
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