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I RARELY AGREE with George W Bush, the butcher of Iraq who has been ludicrously resurrected as an icon of liberal order. But he was right to say, “This is...

TODAY’S SOURCE features Donald Trump, who, according to rumours, plans to escape Joe Biden’s inauguration in our own wee corner of the world, where he owns the Turnberry Golf Course. It highlights...

THROUGHOUT the drama of Donald Trump’s one-term presidency, Scotland has had an occasional walk-on role as his adoptive mother country. Many Scots chafed at the association, but his status as...

SINCE THE LAST SOURCE DIRECT, the pandemic has sent Britain on an emotional rollercoaster. On the one hand, new vaccine approvals raised hopes of a quicker return to normality. On...

AS a year that none of us will forget approaches its end, we asked a variety of figures from around Scotland what their hopes were for 2021. Adam Ramsay: “To...

IT’S UNCLEAR WHAT WILL become of Brexit, and I’ll resist the temptation to speculate on the outcome. However, for the final Source Direct of 2020, I am fulfilling a reader...

THE 2008 economic crisis finally arrived in 2016. Though so much damage had been done by the crash and recession itself, then by the years of austerity measures, it wasn’t...

A YEAR in which there has been a lot of talk of ‘being kind’ ends with a festive season usually dominated by a spirit of the same – and yet...

IT IS FIVE YEARS since the Paris Climate Accord and, had it not been for Covid, Glasgow would have recently hosted COP26 at which all the nations of the world...

AS SOURCE DIRECT DRAWS to a close for 2020, it is time to review one of the darkest, craziest twelve months on record. These will be my own deliberately impressionistic...