As even the SNP’s diehard fans turn on the party and Nicola Sturgeon, what exactly is happening with school grades in Scotland? The scandal is grew out from coronavirus. Because normal schooling and exam procedures have been so disrupted this year, it was deemed that exam results (which for those who couldn’t sit them were […]
China has now passed its new National Security Law which allows Beijing to intervene directly in Hong Kong with the full force of the state. Mainland intelligence agencies are already moving into the city in what is surely the first phase of a crackdown on Hongkongers who have protested against Beijing over the past year […]
Like many other political actors around the world, the SNP are looking to make electoral hay from the ongoing pandemic, and, they hope, bring a second independence referendum closer to reality. And from their point of view, it seems the sooner the better. Since the Westminster election of 2019, a slight majority of Scots now […]
Some people simply cannot accept defeat. Or indeed the outcome of a democratic vote. And I’m not just talking about Remainers and Brexit. As Nicola Sturgeon’s disastrous interview with Andrew Neil showed, a second referendum on Scottish independence remains both bafflingly illogical and realistic prospect in the near future: the same Westminster that couldn’t carry […]
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum should have settled the status of the Union for a generation. And it would have done – were it not for Brexit, and for the strongly divergent Brexit results on either side of Hadrian’s Wall. After some sabre-rattling in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 Brexit vote, the SNP opted […]
