Category: Politics

I had never eaten a pizza before my first visit to Florence. I entered a restaurant, just a short distance from the Duomo and the Uffizi gallery, and found myself…

I discovered the Glass Bucket by chance. I had just missed a bus and I didn’t fancy hanging around in Dundee bus station for an hour. So I walked up…

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain – Friedrich Nietzsche Boris Johnson may not be the brightest bulb, but he is not stupid; more irresponsible than stupid as his…

Bill Paterson is an actor and commentator As Health Secretary Matt Hancock flannelled his way through last Thursday’s Question Time on his preparations for possible massive self-isolation in the coming…

What has destroyed every previous civilisation has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power – Henry George (writer and economist) Capitalism is dying out all over…

There is no justification for the belief that, so long as power is conferred by democratic process, it cannot be arbitrary – Friedrich A Hayek (the late Austrian-British economist and…

We all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; decentralising is crucial to both freedom and excellence . – Jerry Brown (then…

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from…

Scots historian, author and Royal Mile tour guide, Graeme Milne, is behind the novel development of a hard copy and digitised children’s book of short story and poems. It’s inspired…

Scotland is adapting to the changing art-and-craft associated with winemaking. Apparently we’re a nation fast becoming more discerning in our choice of tipple, with our growing fondness for the grape…