Much of the election campaign this week has been focused on the so-called ‘trans row’. JK Rowling was at the centre of the debate.
It’s a curious mix, isn’t it? Telling political rivals to pull their finger out and fulfil their promises, while turning your own pledges into confetti.
The Mark by Fríða Ísberg: If the ideas sound familiar, it’s because Ísberg could be writing about Scotland in 2024. The novel asks profound political and philosophical questions. Can or should a society legislate away bad behaviour like selfishness, rage and cruelty?
Change can be very uncomfortable. Especially personal change; even more so personal change around cherished beliefs. Since 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, my personal beliefs around nuclear weapons have undergone a very painful metamorphosis. Throughout my life, I’ve vehemently opposed ‘the bomb’, as we called it in the paranoid days of the Cold War.
In an unprecedented interview, Baroness Meta Ramsay meets our Writer at Large and reveals what it’s like to be an officer at the heart of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service
The party of government appears to be blithely wandering around in some fantasy-land, imagining all is well with its fortunes, whilst completely disregarding how matters are tanking left, right and centre.
Believe me, I’m looking for reasons to vote Labour. I want the Tories gone and Labour will do that, not the SNP. But how can I vote for a party which will just mimic in soft-focus the policies of the government it defeated?
I’ve come to learn that only those who have experienced poverty understand the causes of poverty. Pampered, middle-class politicians will never find an answer to inequality, because it’s never touched their lives.
Think-tank says college students neglected because middle-class ministers and their children went to university.
As the influential think tank The Jimmy Reid Foundation issues a powerful new report accusing the SNP of betraying working-class youth, our Writer at Large talks to its director
