What connects last month's Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests with next month's commemoration of the D-Day landings of 75 years ago? At first glance, not a lot.
In country after country, schoolchildren have been staging protest marches.
The restrictive immigration regime planned by Theresa May’s government ‘completely pulls the rug from under the feet of business and communities in the Highlands and Islands’.
Because news is very much about the here and now, it’s not often that a press release prompts much in the way of thinking about the longer-run significance of whatever’s being publicised.
If there were a national to-do list, a piece of paper itemising tasks that need attending to if Britain’s to be made a better place, what might that list contain?
All nationalisms romanticise the past. That includes the nationalism fuelling the drive for Brexit. Whether this nationalism is British or English in inspiration isn’t clear. But what’s certain is that talk of long-gone glories has been integral to the Brexit project from the start.
Who would be a councillor? Sure, the position’s often rumoured to come with lots of payments, perks and privileges. But even if these tales were true, and they aren’t, the job would be the worst in politics. Because it has been stripped of what gives point to being in politics at all.
I enjoy a good political debate.
As the Press and Journal's Keep HIE Local campaign gathers pace, the agency's former chairman and SNP party member, Professor Jim Hunter, today accuses SNP ministers of launching an "assault" on its founding principles.