As I stood stock still in the icy silence of the remembrance ceremony at the village War Memorial, very little seemed to make sense. ‘This is as close as it…
Sir David Butler, the great political scientist and psephologist, has died aged 98. He analysed every General Election in the UK from 1945 onwards and taught us the importance of…
‘The King sits in Dunfermline toun drinkin the blood red wine’ and toasting its new city status… Dunfermline is to become Scotland’s eighth city after being granted it as part…
I am writing this in my local internet cafe, or home, as I prefer to call it. The 21st century is often referred to as the digital age. Former ways…
Richard Kerley chaired a committee in 2000 set up by the Labour-run Scottish Executive to report on ‘renewing local democracy’. The resulting report and recommendations allowed the Scottish Executive to…
I hadn’t seen John for almost 40 years. He had made a new life for himself in Australia but was back in the UK for a few weeks to catch…
The home page of every edition of the Scottish Review carries the tagline, ‘Scotland’s weekly current affairs magazine’. It has been exactly that without any attempt at interpreting what it…
Our Scottish political parties are all busy selecting candidates right now to fight the next Westminster election. Current polling suggests that Scottish Labour could make a bit of a comeback…
It takes something really significant to make political headlines these days after a succession of resignations, scandals and failures. But as I listened in the early hours to a live…
Being ‘Gaelic-critical’ is a bit like being ‘gender-critical’. You can fully support the Gaelic language’s right to exist, develop and flourish but still be uncomfortable when it is weaponised to…