At some point, we’re all going to have to have a discussion about the word “normal”. Because suffering from a debilitating mental illness that allegedly makes you kill yourself ...

We’ve said it for a lot of years, but “1984” really does contain a complete explanation of every aspect of modern life, and ...

For the combatants in the gender wars, it’s been quite a spring and summer here in the TERF Island theatre of battle. In February, polling company YouGov revealed the vast extent to which ...

It’s the “Western” way. If events in a country are moving against the Establishment, then affect Regime Change via coup, electoral interference or indoctrinating media, and install a docile idiot of ...

We’ve said it for a lot of years, but “1984” really does contain a complete explanation of every aspect of modern life, and especially politics. So let’s look at today’s Herald On Sunday, and in ...

For the combatants in the gender wars, it’s been quite a spring and summer here in the TERF Island theatre of battle. In February, polling company YouGov revealed the vast extent to which public ...

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, before the internet, scammers used to have to work a bit harder to cheat people than they do now. A popular method was to advertise a “clearance sale” in the press. You’d ...

As a journalist, readers, sometimes you want to pep a story up a bit. From time to time, it’s perfectly legitimate to sensationalise a relatively minor aspect of something in order to draw attention ...

The Scottish Greens, in a feat of remarkable hubris and financial profligacy, stood 44 candidates in this week’s general election, knowing that most of them would lose their deposits, which t… ...

In these grim times, at least we have funny animal videos to cheer us up. Unfortunately when you write about politics for a living, everything is an analogy. It’s been six weeks since the general ...

If you wanted to hear me yakking on about Scottish and UK politics for 45 minutes, an excellent way to achieve it would be clicking this image. If not, it’s probably best if you don’t.

These paragraphs are all from the same story. The Hate Crime Act has rather faded into obscurity after the furore surrounding its introduction, with the police apparently just trying to pretend it … ...