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…
Last week, the House of Commons held a moving debate to mark five years since the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. Jo was elected to represent the parliamentary constituency…
With the left-wing candidate, Pedro Castillo, poised to win the presidential election in Peru, I found myself arguing over the significance of this with a young left-wing Labour Party organiser…
Loads of people have used social media to post their verdicts on the two televised leaders’ debates. Some may have actually watched them. The Daily Record online poll called both…
If you were at a Burns supper this year, it was almost certainly online. I first came across Robert Burns at primary school when I was awarded the Burns Federation…
We are all thinking about how best to have a safe Christmas. Here in Ayrshire, my plan is a virtual dinner for the ghosts of Christmas past – famous people…
A group of Liverpool fans made the pilgrimage from Merseyside to East Ayrshire last September for the dedication of the renewed Bill Shankly memorial at Glenbuck, birthplace of the former…
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…