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            Exactly 81 years ago today, at around 06:30 in the early morning light, the first waves of what amounted to some 156,000 Allied soldiers by the end of the day landed on the beaches of Normandy. They had been preceded the night before by roughly 23,400 of their comrades who landed by parachute andContinue reading “D-Day at 81.”

It is not often that a by-election to the Scottish Parliament prompts such fevered speculation, but the contest in Hamilton, Larkhall, and Stonehouse is shaping up to be more than a mere mid-term skirmish. In fact, it may prove to be a harbinger of something far more profound — a reordering of political allegiances, notContinue reading “The Hamilton By-Election Could Reshape the Political Battlefield — And Reform UK Might Just Detonate the Blast”

By Stuart Crawford The recent comments by former First Minister Humza Yousaf, accusing the Prime Minister and Sir Keir Starmer of echoing the far right’s rhetoric, have made headlines. Yousaf compared Starmer’s language to that of Enoch Powell and Nigel Farage, warning that such sentiments risk pushing Britain into further division and decline. He alsoContinue reading “Hypocrisy, Rhetoric, and the Real Debate on Immigration”

I happened to be travelling along Edinburgh’s City Bypass last Saturday on my way to Glasgow at the same time as the farmer’s protest against Starmer’s inheritance tax (IHT) initiatives had taken to the busy route. Since 1984, agricultural property relief (APR) has allowed land used for crops or rearing animals – as well asContinue reading “Farmers’ Protests Need To Avoid Hacking Off The Public”

In parachuting there is a term called “ground rush”, which describes the last stages of a jump when the languid floating down underneath the canopy is replaced by the realisation that you are about to meet the ground very shortly indeed. For John Swinney, current hapless leader of the SNP in a line of haplessContinue reading “Stuart’s articles”