ALEX BELL: Choose honesty on drugs
Drug policy is a verb which declines like this – I’m just having fun, you should just say no – but we all want to just get off our faces. It is individual sanctimony versus the human urge to get out of it.
Alex Bell
ALEX BELL: Embarrassing Brexit bungle doesn’t help farmers, fishermen or you and me
Britain is debating with itself over Brexit. So says Leo Varadkar, the Irish Taoiseach.
ALEX BELL: The SNP’s political suicide note
A suicide note is a mix of the self-serving and the raw truth.
ALEX BELL: The end is in sight for Nicola Sturgeon
The endgame in Nicola Sturgeon’s leadership has begun.
ALEX BELL: SNP policy has proven to be a complete waste of energy
You have to take the government to court if you want the truth.
ALEX BELL: Men’s relationships with their children have changed — and it’s time Scottish society caught up
A father died last week.
ALEX BELL: Sturgeon is heading for a constitutional clash she won’t win
I’d happily grab a banner and take to the barricades on London denying Scotland post-Brexit powers, as readers know, but it would be lonely up there. Most of us do not care.
ALEX BELL: Can Scots really be sure they would have treated the Windrush generation any better?
History turns on where ships dock and where the passengers disembark. The UK Government is making a hash of the Windrush generation issue but had the ship landed in Dundee, would Scots be making the same mistakes?
ALEX BELL: Land, freedom and Loch Leven’s ‘heavy metal’ campers
Who knew that death cults were on Police Scotland’s radar? Certainly not the family and friends who went to drink and be merry on Loch Leven, only to find their Sunday night campsite the focus of emergency service searchlights and helicopter swoops.
ALEX BELL: Our environmental complacency is clear to see in every plastic water bottle
Tesco is selling a bottle of water for 17p.