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What’s the Orange Order’s future?

July 12, 2023 by Brian O'Neill Leave a Comment

“I was at a talk the other week by the Orange Order Historian Dr David Hume. It is a measure of how far we have come as a society that there was a talk about the Orange Order in the James Connolly Centre on the Falls Road.

Saltire in the sky

May 6, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

‘It is perhaps under-recognised by many in the independence camp just how much support there was for the Union in 1707 among middle-class Scots. That support was based on a hunger for opportunity. But Brexit has reversed that – it means a big reduction in the degree of opportunity that Union with the rest of the UK once offered.’

‘Strategic lies’ in Downing St

April 28, 2021 by Ivor Gaber 1 Comment

“The quality of our democracy depends on the quality of the political debate within the public sphere. New campaigning techniques represent a real threat to both the debate and our democracy and something needs to be done urgently to address this problem.”

Postcard from anti-vax France

April 8, 2021 by Frances Allen 1 Comment

Danser Encore: Frances Allen

A doubly vaccinated Frances Allen ventures into the market place to meet the complex cultural attitudes of her adopted home: ‘a country which has a historic mistrust of vaccines.’ 

COVID-19: scapegoating begins in earnest

September 5, 2020 by Hugh Pennington 3 Comments

In his latest piece on the pandemic, Hugh Pennington examines inter alia how cuts in labs and scientists have helped damage our response to the coronavirus

Not so sage experts

May 17, 2020 by Hugh Pennington 4 Comments

‘But the more we study COVID-19 the more the differences with influenza become evident. However, public pronouncements still take their cue from that virus, like the need to avoid a second wave that will swamp the NHS…time to stop using ‘flu as a useful model…’

Migration is vital for Scotland

December 1, 2019 by Sceptical Scot Editors 1 Comment

Immigration is not the salient issue in GE2019 it was in GE2017 but Scotland’s need for significant net migration is stronger than ever – as Jonathan Portes and Graeme Roy discuss separately here.

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