IN 2014, the door to independence was wide open – but we stood on the threshold like an indecisive cat and refused to walk through it.
SHIPS attacked by pirates in the Red Sea? Gladstone or Disraeli would never have allowed it. Not on their watch.
ONE of the first things I had to learn at Britannia Royal Naval College was “bends and hitches” – knots to the landlubbing layperson. On a good day, I can still tie a bowline or a clove hitch blindfolded.
IT is time to put my cards on the table: I am a Unionist. No matter how much of a “proud Scot” one might be, or however much one might dream of Bannockburn, our future is at stake and we have to be realistic. We cannot get away from the facts.
WHAT is a Constitution? Do we – in the UK – have one? Do we – in Scotland – need one? These questions are worth asking and answering, especially this week, when the “British Constitution”, in all its imaginary and non-existent glory, has been very much
IF the latest opinion polls are anything to go by, it looks like Labour are going to win the next Westminster election in Scotland.
THE Parliament of Tuvalu – a small island nation in the South Pacific – last week passed a constitutional amendment act.
HENRY Neville, an English republican political theorist, described constitutional decay as being like 'the French disease'.
Why hazard so much on a referendum called merely to settle an internal dispute within the Conservative Party?
ANTI-INDEPENDENCE commentators have dismissed the Scottish Government’s Building A New Scotland series of policy papers as pie-in-the-sky.
