It’d drive you to drink!

It’d drive you to drink!

It is unfortunate that this historic affirmation of Scotland’s distinctive political culture has been marred by so much comment based on near-perfect ignorance of the minimum unit pricing (MUP) measure and the wider strategy of which it is a part. It is truly...
In a good place

In a good place

So, filtering out all the diplomatic fluff, what is the substance? No change! After the meeting that was never supposed to happen, all we know is that Theresa May continues to be locked into a ‘One Nation’ British Nationalist project that is all ideology and no ideas,...
Casualties of War

Casualties of War

          “The first casualty when war comes is the truth.” – Sen Hiram Johnson (R-CA) (1917)     As Barataria has noted before, the United States appears to be at war. This war, primarily with Putin’s Russia, is a new kind of war...