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 And so it is over.  I hesitated to say anything much about the election, not least because I was out of the Country for much of it, visitin...

 In the Summer of the year 2000, Maureen, my wife, and I went on holiday to central Italy. We stayed just outside the hilltop village of Pac...

 I have just finished two well read blogs about the Hate Crime Act concluding that it doesn't, in truth, materially change the law at al...

 Yesterday morning, I finished my blog under the shortened title in the last two words above. And to my astonishment, a civilised discussion...

When I was younger I was a massive admirer of the French Novelist Emile Zola. A great socialist and social reformer, he wrote a series of bo...

Where does Scotland stand on Gaza? Actually nowhere, "Scotland" is not a political party, let alone a political position, it is on...

  THE PROLOGUE I start this blog with an extended anecdote. But I suspect some who read it might think it can't be true. For couldn'...