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ThinkScotland was established as a virtual think tank in 2006 by Scottish entrepreneur Robert Kilgour to encourage greater discussion in Scotland about economic, social and constitutional policies – from the perspective of mainly Scottish Conservative authors.
The site relaunched in July 2012 seeking a far broader constituency as an independent not-for-profit debating forum with a cross-section of topical, political and cultural writing on a daily basis.
ThinkScotland’s editorial outlook has always been right of centre – with the aim of explaining and defending free markets and an open liberal society – but crucially without endorsing any one political party – or taking a corporate view. Source
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| Country | United Kingdom |
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Search ArticlesScotland’s dependency culture cannot be denied and must change
THIS MAY SEEM a bit obvious but sometimes one needs to go back to basics such is the nature of the discourse of the ruling political parties in Holyrood. They act like they are in penury when in reality they have taken almost all the gold. A free society is one which is lightly governed and taxed – where individuals, families and communities are free, within the rule of law, to act as they see fit and are thus agents of their own destiny.
Clacton – What was it really all about?
EACH YEAR I think that British politics can’t get any weirder or more bizarre. But each year it seems to do just that. We now live in a world in which a man who wears a giant bin on his head, purports to be from the planet Sigma 9 and advocates nationalising the pop star Adele can secure 27 per cent of the vote in a Parliamentary election. The truly surreal nature of the Clacton by-election should not distract us from the seriousness of the issues that it raises.
Burnham’s cereal race to the bottom
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 12 January 2013 ANTI-GLOBALISATION campaigners, when they are not “occupying” Starbucks or picketing Apple stores, like to speak of something which they call “the race to the bottom”. Although the label may make it sound like sections of Broughton Street on a Saturday night, it’s a worthy enough idea.
We’re all Thatcherites now? Don’t you believe it
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 19 April 2013 following Margaret Thatcher’s funeral two days previously. IT HAS BECOME a common phrase to say, “we’re all Thatcherites now”. I have possibly used it myself, but it is of course only a half-truth – and in so many respects it is utter tosh.
The Mummy Diaries – Your last week of holiday hell ideas
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this one was first published on 9 April 2020 WHATEVER WAY you look at it, the Easter holidays haven’t really been Easter holidays.
Shetland should show Scotland the way with tunnels
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this was first published on 10 August 2021 SOME TIME AGO I wrote an article here about applying the Norwegian tunnel building programme in Scotland. As a result of that I learned that in 2002 the Shetland Island Council had sought a quote from a Norwegian company for a tunnel to the northern island of Yell. Watching the decisionmaking is instructive.
The Mummy Diaries – How to be a referee. Ideas? Anyone?
ThinkScotland is twenty years old – and we’re reviving some of our blasts from our past – this was first published on 14 July 2021 AH, THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS. That joyous time of year when we all get to spend time together playing in the garden, eating snacks, going to the beach, eating snacks, going away on day trips, eating snacks, getting ice cream, eating snacks and having picnics in a desperate attempt to keep the kids away from screens for as long as possible. That’s the social media version.
The obvious but unsaid truth: how not to create a defence policy
THE DEFENESTRATION of Sir Keir Starmer as UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader, the anointing of Andy Burnham as his successor in both positions, and the appointment of the new Cabinet over the past few days has been a bit of a whirlwind. Whether it has been a proper exercise in democracy I will leave to others to comment.
Swinney owes Offord an apology – and everyone a £22m tax rebate
FACE IT John Swinney – you owe Malcolm Offord an apology. Worse still, because apologies cost nothing, you are due the Scottish taxpayers a £22m rebate. Not that anyone expects you to face up to either responsibility. A new report by Tax Policy Associates shows the SNP’s creation of a top rate of income tax in Scotland at 48 per cent actually led to lower tax revenues.
Only a bounce allows Burnham’s Circus to go to the country
FORGIVE ME for not falling for PT Burnham’s Circus act. It is a complete and utter fraud, taking us back to the supposed feelgood days of Blairism but without the policy intent of modernising public services that came from a long period in opposition and the grudging acceptance of many Thatcherite economic reforms. You did not need to look far to see that we were about to witness a very British Coup d’état.