The Lurch to the Left

The Times has put up no less than six of its finest journalists to write about the calamity that is Kate Forbes standing down, next year. No doubt there will be more to come, but as it stands Laura Paterson (‘Kate Forbes, the rising star who couldn’t land the SNP leadership‘), Michael Glackin (‘SNP’s last […] Source

The Whole is Shattered and Wrecked

“The whole is shattered and wrecked”: human ecology, relationality and dùthchas in the testimonies of the Free Church ministers of the far north-west to the Napier Commission. This is a script of a paper delivered by Dr. Gemma Smith at the ‘Interrogating the Napier Commission’ Conference held at Glasgow University on 24-25th July, organised by […] Source

Thoughts on the SNP’s independence strategy

We are back from our trip to England, and before writing anything else I have to tell you that both my other half and I are completely besotted with our new baby granddaughter. I realise that I am contractually obliged to be biased, but Ivy is gorgeous. She’s a very happy…