“Should we feel defeated? Only if we have forgotten that history has its own ways. The season will turn.”
David Jamieson
“The Afghan War, which inaugurated a wave of western attacks in Asia and North Africa 20 years ago, will prove in its last act the futility and destruction of ‘humanitarian intervention’.”
Analysis: Taliban rule and further conflict are the fruits of ‘western interventionism’
“It’s hard not to view GB News as Neil’s next step in his march of destruction through institutions which once promoted stability for Britain’s ruling strata.”
David Jamieson: GB News is the feeble product of Andrew Neil’s crusade against journalism
“Will Scottish civil society be strong enough to resist dangerous escalations, waged not in the name of the ordinary citizens of China or Scotland, but in the name of competition for wealth and power?”
Analysis: Is Scottish politics mature enough to resist the anti-China axis?
“A low tax regime and de-regulation are the preferred models of attracting foreign investment, and the Scottish Government is certainly exploring just such incentives.”
Analysis: Does foreign investment mean the rise of ‘global Scotland’?
“Intense religious nationalism, chauvinistic violence, and law-bounded racial particularism have completely destroyed the carefully cultivated image of a secular, progressive Israel.”
Analysis: The rise of the Israeli far right poses new problems for western allies
“Enforcing higher employment standards is yet another area where the Scottish Government has more freedom than it cares to admit.”
Analysis: Failures of ‘fair work’ expose the limits of government pleading with business
“The essential moral vision of the establishment is that things are bad, used to be worse, and that we are on a journey to a better future. The struggle, you see, is very real.”
David Jamieson: The mental health crisis is being commodified to oblivion
“From the viewpoint of the ruling elite, the convergence of a language used to describe domestic US racism and foreign policy objectives is pernicious.”
David Jamieson: How BLM undermined pro-Israel propaganda
“By the time of the 2021 vote, the greatest share of the damage to Scottish Labour had already been done, and failing to reverse any of this needs to be seen as significant in itself.”