Opinion

Individualism and self-determination.

This question is often avoided, perhaps because some conservatives lack the courage to address it or because the concept of self-determination has gradually faded from public consciousness. Nevertheless, it is still a significant question that needs more attention. Individualism and self-determination share many similarities when it comes to personal freedoms. These include an individual’s right

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Edinburgh’s Iconic one o’clock gun to be muffled by health and safety

Edinburgh Castle’s gun salute is to be made quieter to stop it being silenced by health and safety rules. The historic firing of the gun, which has happened at one o’clock in the afternoon every day – except Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day – since 1861, was in jeopardy on Easter Saturday after it

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People in Scotland have a shorter life expectancy than anywhere else in Europe.

Public Health Scotland said action was needed quickly as the country’s health continues to deteriorate and the health gap between the rich and poor grows. Scotland’s health is getting worse under the stewardship of the SNP as people die younger than any other Western European country. Paul Johnston, chief executive of Public Health Scotland, called for a

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Iceland replaces iconic religious symbol on its hot cross buns.

Iceland has become the latest name to court controversy by erasing Christian iconography and, by extension, attacking the religion itself. The chain has decided to ditch the cross on its hot cross buns, which represents Jesus’s crucifixion on Good Friday. In its place will be a tick, reminiscent of Nike’s famous logo. David Lennox, Head

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Tony Blair

Masquerading liberal.

Thomas Black Among the curiosities of the modern world is the masquerading liberal. By this, I mean the liberal who hides behind a left-wing mask. Beyond mere deception, this particular archetype genuinely believes themselves to be socialist, seemingly unaware that their ideology and cosmopolitan sensibility are identical to the international elite they wholeheartedly claim to

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Home Office asylum sites to cost millions more than hotels.

There was always going to be one fatal flaw in the Government’s policy of importing waves of migrants and dumping them in hotels—space, or lack thereof. The supply of lodging establishments in the UK is finite; therefore, the Home Office has no choice but to get creative. Their solution? Brazenly go all out and create

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Violence by pupils in Scottish schools is being massively under-reported it is claimed

Parents will be “deeply alarmed” by reports suggesting the accurate scale of violence in schools is being under-reported. It has emerged that secondary schools in one council area “don’t report at all”. The revelation backs up longstanding claims by teaching unions that staff are “dissuaded” from reporting violent incidents because of a “culture of fear” instilled by

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Nottinghamshire Police joined the club and told to improve.

Law enforcement in Great Britain is a joke, and we all know it. Apologies if that statement comes across as rather blunt, but such are the depths that modern policing has fallen to that we are now beyond the point of eloquent and diplomatic language—it’s time to call a spade a spade. The fact is

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