Mr John Brown is clearly an emotionally spontaneous chap. This piece of mine from June 2012 will attest to that fact. In the Summer of Liquidation, he stepped forward on the steps of the stadium he ...

Anyone who has travelled to the northeast of this country will have noticed the profusion of Israeli flags marking out the boundaries of Loyalist areas.

Anyone who has travelled to the northeast of this country will have noticed the profusion of Israeli flags marking out the boundaries of Loyalist areas.

Well, in a couple of weeks, the corporate structure of the basket of assets disappears into the Delaware darkness. Consequently, all that will be discernible is whether the public data and recruitment ...

I was definitely feeling like that bemused Chilean miner when I came up for air last night. Two messages were waiting for me, and both from excellent sources. Source A is very close to the Dermot ...

of anti-Irish racism in Scotland.

As an undergraduate at York University in the 1980s, my degree was split between the Politics Department and Laurie Taylor’s sociology fiefdom. The former was, in the main, a rather dusty environment ...

A friend in the Faculty of Advocates in Fair Caledonia just contacted me. Apparently, Sevco’s preferred legal firm is urgently seeking a junior to assist in some court action apropos a retail case.

The quintessentially British football club may be about to be undone by England’s oldest ally. Any hopes by the Scottish football establishment that the second contract scandal at Rangers can be kept ...

These are difficult days for those who ascribe to the Hovis advert version of Britain’s bloodstained history. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, the UK government is ...

Full disclosure: I’m gonna miss him. Particularly his post-match observations, which were for the ages. Of course, such magical realism doesn’t come cheap. Someone somehow will have to honour the ...

A hat tip to the Sevco High Command for their exquisite comic timing. For all of the days to announce that they were embarking on a potentially ruinous litigation… For the avoidance of doubt, all of ...