Will the great forest sell-off now resume?
It was one of the first of the more than 30 U-turns that have increasingly characterised this Government – and one of the sharpest and most humiliating, despite strong recent competition from George...
View ArticleArchbishop Tartaglia really ought to shut up about gay life expectancy until...
I try, every so often, to remind people that opponents of gay marriage aren't all vicious bigots; that many are opposed on grounds of simple conservatism, not a virulent dislike for gay people. I...
View ArticleÀ la recherche du Deacon Blue: how music brings back old memories
Deacon Blue’s first album, Raintown, was released in 1987. We must have been a bit slow in Glasgow’s West End, because it wasn’t until 1988 that I heard it. And heard it then, only because a room in...
View ArticleHaven't the infants and the misfits celebrating Thatcher's death had enough...
Isn't it about time we stopped devoting ridiculously disproportionate amounts of news coverage to the handful (and I do mean handful, in proportion to the national population) of youthful idiots and...
View ArticleGay shoes and groovy bishops: no wonder young people are losing their faith
From Saturday's Daily Telegraph The results of the 2011 Census, published last year, were pretty devastating for Christianity, indicating that it will be a minority religion in Britain by 2018. This...
View ArticleCancer treatment can leave you with nail and skin problems
The side effects caused by cancer treatments can have an extremely debilitating effect on the patient – adverse skin reactions, a sore mouth and problems with finger and toenails are the most common....
View ArticleLib Dems: Nick Clegg – the unavoidable man
It's sunny in London but pouring in Glasgow, the weather no doubt reflecting some kind of political truth. Nick Clegg has just had a good outing on Marr. New lines delivered ('die in a trench', 'let us...
View ArticleWanting Scotland to leave the UK is radical, but wanting Britain to leave the...
The rest of the world applies a curious double standard to Britain’s twin secession debates. You want Scotland to leave the United Kingdom? Radical, groovy, progressive! You want the UK to leave the...
View ArticleScottish independence: What is it like to question Alex Salmond?
One of the frustrations for many supporters of the Union is how the Scottish First Minister appears to get away with not answering uncomfortable questions. I experienced this yesterday when I tried to...
View ArticleNick Clegg has undone 50 years of Liberal recovery
You’d forgotten about the Liberal Democrats, hadn’t you? You vaguely assumed that they must already have held their annual get-together somewhere, and that you had missed it. Once a fixed, if minor,...
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