Steph Paton

TIME is quite the construct for measuring our world. Not only the great healer of all things, it is the means by which we mark and measure the great loves and the various indignities of life apiece. It’s one of the reasons I adore Hogmanay ...

JOURNALISM is something of a sacred cow to the West – in principle at least, if not in practice.

THE fascists came to Glasgow on Saturday in their hundreds – and the antifascists came in their thousands ...

THERE was a bitter irony in reading the news that peak-time fares would be reintroduced on Scotland’s railways while being crammed into an overflowing peak-time train departing Glasgow Central ...

I’VE never accepted the label of “nationalist” for the modern independence movement. While there are certainly nationalists within its broad membership, the goals of Scotland’s constitutional reckoning have rarely fallen under what I’d constitute as a nationalist project.

THINKING back to that halcyon summer campaign ahead of the independence referendum 10 years ago, it strikes me that the image of the Yes movement – as one that takes pride in its progressivism – is a little diminished of late ...

IT has been a little over a week since the Conservative Party’s 14-year reign deservedly came crashing down around them.

GIVEN the rightward trend of politics on these islands of ours, it seemed inevitable a General Election campaign would naturally flush the nastiest elements of the British political class into the open – akin to an English water company insisting it is doing its best while repeatedly, unrepentantly, pouring raw sewage into public spaces.

IN 1936, Oswold Mosley’s British Union of Fascists attempted to march through London’s East End. Clad in their signature black shirts and protected by mounted police...

WHEN Lord Peter Cruddas spoke during the Conservative Democratic Organisation conference at Bournemouth International Centrein Bournemouth last year, his address provided a harrowing insight