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Jan 18, 2025 | 
thinkscotland.org | Linda Holt |Jill Stephenson |Ian Mitchell |Ewen Stewart
TWO STRIKING – and related – news stories have hit Scottish headlines this week. A Survation poll for Holyrood Sources on the 2026 Holyrood election put the SNP on 53 seats, Labour on 25, and the Conservatives and Reform on 15 each. Meanwhile, the Conservative Group Leader on Glasgow Council, Thomas Kerr, has defected from the Scottish Conservatives to Reform. Reform overshadowed Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay’s keynote New Year speech earlier in the week.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
thinkscotland.org | Jill Stephenson |Ewen Stewart |Ian Mitchell |Christine Padgham
MANY WILL REMEMBER Michael Gove, as a cabinet minister, saying, in relation to Brexit, ‘I think the people of this country have had enough of experts’. While this was provocative and extravagant, there was some sense in it. After all, trust in experts had been eroded by prominent cases of experts getting it wrong or even doing wrong. This has included cases of damaging surgery carried out on blameless patients, and the crashing of financial institutions by their directors.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
thinkscotland.org | Ewen Stewart |Ian Mitchell |Christine Padgham |Regina Erich
IT SEEMS people like parables. Even those not familiar with the Bible can probably tell you about the parable of the Prodigal Son, or the parable of the Lost Sheep. 2000 years later it seems we still need simple stories to highlight complex ideas.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Ewen Stewart
PEOPLE like parables. Even those not very familiar with the Bible can probably tell you about the parable of the Prodigal Son, or the Lost Sheep. Two thousand years later, it seems we still need simple stories to highlight complex ideas. Thus we now have the parable of ‘How Liz Truss trashed the economy’ and certainly, if the Daily Telegraph is to be believed, we have the parable of Rachel Reeves ‘running to China as the economy burned’.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Ewen Stewart
LAST SATURDAY I had the pleasure of speaking at the Reform UK conference in Perth. It was actually Reform’s fourth Scottish Conference, but the three previous ones might have fitted in the backroom of some pub. This one was rather different. 350 attendees, an overflow room, a hugely enthusiastic audience and a dozen speakers including one of two former Tory councillors that had defected to Reform UK that very day.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Ewen Stewart |Ian Mitchell |Christine Padgham |Regina Erich
LAST SATURDAY I had the pleasure of speaking at the Reform UK conference in Perth. It was actually Reform’s fourth Scottish Conference, but the three previous ones might have fitted in the backroom of some pub. This one was rather different. 350 attendees, an overflow room, a hugely enthusiastic audience and a dozen speakers including one of two former Tory councillors that had defected to Reform UK that very day.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Ewen Stewart
SYMBOLISM matters. Rachel Reeves choosing to ditch a picture of Nigel Lawson for Ellen Wilkinson, one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Great Britain, tells us all we need to know. We are ruled by ideologues who view it as their role to reshape society into their socialist utopia. In fairness, the previous government did a pretty good job of building a socialist utopia too, but they did so by sleight of hand promising to do the opposite. At least this lot is out and proud.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thinkscotland.org | Ewen Stewart |Hamish Gobson |Christine Padgham |Regina Erich
ANYONE who has followed the development of the windfarm industry in Scotland will have been struck by the effort which the Scottish government puts into further impoverishing both underprivileged city dwellers and all rural ones. The former suffer from artificially high power costs, and the latter from that plus the desecration of their visual environment by giant white turbines and giant grey pylons.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Ewen Stewart
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
conservativewoman.co.uk | Ewen Stewart
You can read Parts 1, 2 and 3 here. What would a good Government do? WE HAVE seen how Britain is failing. Its growth rate per head has collapsed to the worst in 200 years and the country is in relative global structural decline. We have seen how the State has, over the last twenty years, come to dominate the UK growing from a third of the economy to almost half and how this underestimates the state’s reach given the exponential increase in regulation.
