1+ week, 2+ day ago  (778+ words) Looking back over the last few years, it seems Australian police are increasingly being attacked " even murdered " as they go about their work. Make no mistake, frontline cops have a tough gig. Lousy hours, mediocre pay, routinely abused, spat at,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (152+ words) As we head towards the Scottish parliamentary elections in May, one party leader has a particularly unenviable job: step forward Anas Sarwar. Only a couple of months ago the Scottish Labour leader was calling for the party's national leader, Sir…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (984+ words) The Spectator Australia There's no denying the Scottish Greens' ascendance A cardinal error in politics is hating your opponents so much you cannot understand them. If you know no one who supports Reform or the Greens, you have a limited…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (773+ words) The Spectator Australia Reform's Malcolm Offord is a hopeless party leader At this point there is only one way to salvage Reform's Scottish Parliament election campaign. Granted it's unorthodox and, well, illegal, but hear me out: arrange to have Malcolm…...

1+ mon, 3+ hour ago  (520+ words) By no means all jurisdictions which passed "right to die" laws have progressed down the infamous slippery slope to perdition, but enough have You can trace the change in sentiment to the moment last year when the former first minister,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (852+ words) The Spectator Australia A corner of Glasgow's historic Central Station was destroyed by fire last Sunday in scenes that resembled the 1970s disaster film Towering Inferno. The fire apparently started in a pop-up vape shop occupying a ground-level retail outlet and…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1465+ words) Kara Thomas and Andrew Mc Intyre Medicine was never meant to follow ideology. It was meant to follow evidence, ethics, and the simple promise embedded in the Hippocratic oath: first, do no harm. Yet across Australia today, many doctors and…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (855+ words) Nostalgia is not a strategy," declared Schroders chief executive Richard Oldfield after announcing that the investment firm, descended from a" Is it last orders for Brew Dog? Nostalgia is not a strategy," declared Schroders chief executive Richard Oldfield after announcing…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (707+ words) The news comes at a time when Brew Dog has been facing a perfect storm of problems and woes. Its cofounder Martin Dickie, who launched the business with James Watt in 2007, left the company last year, .. . The news that the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (514+ words) Allan was a brilliant book reviewer (and sports journalist) as well as being an underrated and fastidious novelist. He introduced me to his editor at Bodley Head, Euan Cameron, who, after six other. .. Who would Inspector Rebus support in the…...