SCOT goes POP!

Sorry that blogging has been a bit sluggish of late, but I haven't been entirely idle. I have a new article at the International Busine...

While I was making the long journey home from the Edinburgh Hogmanay street party (an experience I paid a heavy price for - I got caught in ...

As long-term readers will know, I regard Angus Reid's Scottish subsamples as being of slightly more interest than those of other pollste...

This is a two-and-a-half-day-old quote from Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, arguing for a hefty increase in MPs' salaries in order to attract th...

In spite of my best efforts (and several re-readings), I'm not sure I entirely understand the point being made by the Ian Stewart articl...

Just a very quick note to wish you all a happy new year - a year which for superstitious reasons I will exclusively be referring to as ...

On a number of occasions I've made the point that Britain is, at best, a semi-democracy, due to the House of Lords being unelected. Som...

The SNP's Angus MacNeil and Labour's George Foulkes found some rare common ground a few days ago in condemning the Queen's '...

Question : If you were an American libertarian blogger who had spent almost every waking moment over the last decade advancing the fantastic...

Ten years ago, the results of the Northern Ireland census were greeted with a not inconsiderable amount of unionist gloating. All the expec...