Even if very few of us are Christians, so much of the language and images we use have their roots in the Bible. Yet that is yet another thing that has been largely excluded from the curriculum in the… (View Post)

I think what we all implicitly recognise is that the quality of public sector work is, to say the least, pretty variable. In Scotland we have over 600,000 public sector employees and I may say that i… (View Post)

The cynical smear of Ed Davey seems to have rather boomeranged on the Tories. Even if he did not ask enough of the right questions, it looks very much as though one of his Tory successors was asking … (View Post)

I don´t think the FT article is that "scary", it is more or less a statement of facts. The position I set out is that Putin is contemptuous of the West and has not been deterred by anything… (View Post)

Remember the "fearsome" Iraqi Republican guard? Larger than the attacking coalition forces in the Gulf war, yet useless (Russian) equipment and no control over the air. Give the Ukrainian a… (View Post)