Martin's View

We live in an age where knowledge has never been so widely or cheaply available.  The results are all around us: the computer device you ar...

When the World feels like sanity   Is in short supply   And reality is a commodity   That most people   Has called “Sell”   Rather than...

The Rt. Hon Boris Johnson Esq. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Foreign and Commonwealth Office Downing Street...

I have been listening to the radio over the past few days with increasing fury. Theresa May’s speech, standing on the steps of No.10 Down...

Writing this on the final official day of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I’m sitting in my small yard under a clear blue sky.  It is the A...

After the Brexit vote I needed a vacation.  Thanks to the generosity of my family, I got a week away somewhere hot. A week wasn't long...

This week has seen some of the best and worst of people and politics. My own week started on Leith Links, campaigning with the Edinburgh N...