Last night the BBC decided to regale the nation with a documentary entitled The Trial of Alex Salmond, or more...

Tomorrow, it will be exactly 67 years since the coup in Iran which overthrew Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh. It...

First of all, congratulations to the poster 'Unknown' who has stolen away Tam the Bam's title of Scot Goes Pop...

SINCE the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent economic crisis, the press-releases of many trade unions have become...

Last week’s election in Belarus has led to around 70,000 people protesting, as Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power...

A PAPER OF MINE published in the latest edition of Scottish Affairs (‘Ambiguous no more: Time to de-mystify the Barnett...

Nicola Sturgeon has written an article which will appear in Holyrood magazine’s 2020 annual review. In the piece, the highlights...

The latest Common Weal paper by leading care expert Nick Kempe, ‘Lessons Learned?’, examines data from the Care Inspectorate, the body...

Congratulations to Tam the Bam, who I can officially crown Scot Goes Pop Precious Union Contemplation Diviner after he was...

A quick readers' contest (and I may have one or two more of these): where was I contemplating the value...