The short sighted stupidity of Reform UK’s climate denialism

A number of recent opinion polls have found that the hard right Anglo-British nationalists of Reform UK are on course to win the next Westminster general election. That alarming prospect is still four years off and it’s entirely possible that Farage’s latest political vehicle will implode before then just as all…

Farewell to the Earl of Inverness

It looks like the moves this week to strip Prince Andrew of his titles were a defensive act ahead of more revelations, and not a final act to draw a line under his disgraceful behaviour. The action – portrayed (hilariously) as Andrew ‘doing the honourable thing’ – is an attempt to distance the Royal family […] Source

Britain Undone: The Bruising Blows of Brexit

At the same time that Britain obsesses about the travails of the Royal Family, yet again; a speech given in Washington DC on Saturday, 18th October by Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England at the Group of Thirty’s 40th International Banking Seminar 2025, has largely passed the British public and media by. Long […] Source

Learning from Ireland’s Cultural Revival

Where is Scotland’s Manchán Magan? For those not aware Magan is the author of Thirty-Two Words for Field, Lost Words from the Irish Landscape, a surprise publishing hit. The small publisher Gill Books ordered just 5,000 copies for the first print run of Thirty-Two Words for Field but within a few months it had sold 24,500. […] Source

England’s identity crisis is Scotland’s opportunity

Scotland has an England problem. The largest country in this so-called union is currently in the grip of a strange national psychosis, and has fallen prey to the venomous snake oil salesmen of the English nationalist far right, who offer simplistic and hate filled nostrums for all that ails England, the…

Joani Reid and the rat-pack

Maybe it’s something in the water in East Kilbride and Strathaven, but the Westminster constituency seems to be cursed with morally bankrupt MPs. The present constituency boundaries are new and was first contested in the July 2024 Westminster general election, but the constituency broadly covers the same area as the abolished…