Freedom is a word and ideal that is constantly bandied about, invoked and promised. It is so powerful that it can topple brutal dictatorships, change the mood of a nation…
Liz Truss was elected Tory leader on Monday albeit by a much narrower margin (20,927) than most predicted. She flew north to Balmoral on Tuesday to meet the Queen â…
The past 18 months have witnessed tumultuous, unprecedented times for everyone on this planet. A global pandemic has ripped through our lives turning them upside-down and in the process killing…
Standards of UK Government and public life are not as they should be in terms of serving the public. Honesty, decency, basic competence and accountability are all in a dire…
The big moments that define countries are few and far between. In the UK, they are often not even General Elections, although this can occasionally happen. Nor are they often…
The aftermath of the murder of David Amess has rightly seen a huge public reaction to the politics of hatred and violence, and a yearning for things to be different….
The latest Old Firm derby was on Sunday at Ibrox, and Celtic beat Rangers to all but secure this year’s senior league title. It had the usual mayhem, incidents, controversy,…
The UK has been a different place over the past two weeks â and will never be the same again. In a world of constant change, it is unsurprising that…
Over the past two months, I’ve spent much time packing and unpacking piles of books: putting them into boxes, labelling them, taking them out of boxes, and putting them up…
When the Tories won a historic fourth term in December 2019, the party and many pundits hailed it as proof of a new kind of Toryism. Galvinised by Brexit, ‘Red…