Back to the Old House
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum's new permanent exhibition, Glasgow - City of Empire is a shameful piece of Social Justice propaganda...
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Edward Hallett Carr, What is History? (1961). E. H. Carr’s What is History? is arguably more relevant now than when it was first...
William, It Was Really Nothing
Banning ‘trans conversion therapy’ will criminalise parents who want what’s best for their kids. In Scotland today, conversion therapy is...
Girl Afraid
Is there an environmental generational divide? The notion that there exists a generational divide on the issue of the environment is...
I Keep Mine Hidden
The indoctrination of children in Scottish schools has, to a large extent, been introduced by stealth. The upending of the core values of...
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Milan Design Week (17 – 23 April), regarded as the world’s most important design fair, has come and gone, but the eco-wailing persists....
Shakespeare's Sister
Closing school libraries is ‘educational vandalism’. There is only one thing more shocking and dispiriting than the fact that 25% of...
The Headmaster Ritual
A new proposal for the Design & Technology GCSE is indoctrination A proposal to revise the Design and Technology (D&T) GCSE curriculum,...
Girlfriend in a Coma
A new Marilyn Monroe-inspired film has been woefully misunderstood. The new Netflix film, Blonde, has sparked an extraordinary and...
That Joke isn’t Funny Anymore (Live, Barrowlands Ballroom, Glasgow)
On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy. US comedian and writer, Lou Perez’s new book, That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore, was always going to end...
Vicar in a Tutu
A gender bias poster campaign that was not all it was cracked-up to be. To coincide with International Women’s Day (IWD) and Women’s...
Cemetry Gates
Why critics love to loathe After Life. Reviewers have lost touch with what audiences enjoy. The third and final series of Ricky Gervais’...
Hand in Glove
Academy of Ideas, International Salon, panel discussion on 23 November 2021. Absolutely delighted to be invited to speak at, 'From Covid...
London
The third London Design Biennale (LDB) runs from 1st – 27th June, hosted at the magnificently imposing Somerset House, on the banks of...
Shoplifters of the World Unite
Forget independence – what about democracy? Neither side of the Scottish independence debate has any interest in bringing power to the...
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
The May 2021 elections in Scotland could well prove to be pivotal, but not in the way the Scottish National Party would have us believe....
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
My contribution to the Freedom Babbleon, organised by WorldWrite in December, 2020. What freedom means to me... Un doble, por favor . . ....
Handsome Devil
Giants like Big Tam represented a working-class outlook which has been remorselessly attacked by the elite through their war on ‘toxic...
Stretch Out and Wait
Local and national governments bicker over technicalities, but the lockdown itself is never questioned. Locked down Spain is like a...
Unloveable (2011, Remaster)
V&A Dundee was a source of civic pride. It’s now being turned into a source of guilt. Dundee, in eastern Scotland, is currently being...
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