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I have just read about a friend’s serious, intelligent wrestling-match over the question of deciding how best to use her genuinely divisible single (or crude, two-part) vote for the Scottish election next month. It's at points like this that I wilt at...

I think it is deeply ironic that the Scotsman, on 7th April 1840, was the first newspaper in the world to publish a (controversial) account of the ice ages (from the utterly fascinating, unknown Scottish genious, James Croal) - but nowadays the paper...

Dear Kev,
You've got to ask yourself if political systems like yours and ours, with space for only two parties are sensible systems. I think you need electoral reform in the US to eradicate the duopoly - just as badly as we do here in the UK - but you have a constitution...

A very wise Canadian friend suggested that she didn’t mind paying her taxes, and appreciated the work that public servants did. She wanted her taxes to pay for daycare and free tertiary tuition. She wanted these things, instead of the fighter jets and...