Philip Patrick

For those trying to understand Japan's plummeting birthrate – which some fear could eventually lead to Japanese people ceasing to exist – evidence of where the problem might lie emerged this week.

IT hasn't been a good month for Glasgow. Trouble at the football, fire at Central Station, and now a fresh set of appalling drug deaths figures.

The Japanese national team put England to the samurai sword last night with a 1-0 victory at Wembley stadium.

TheFifa price for the soccer World Cup tickets in the USA are the most expensive in the tournaments history.

Mairi McAllan, the SNP government’s Housing Minister, Nicola Sturgeon protege, and leader in waiting (according to the gossip), has been lambasted for claiming that Scotland has ‘too few migrants’. McAllan said on the BBC’s The Sunday Show this week that migration was ‘good and necessary for the economy’. In doing so, she sidestepped the self-evident truth that the

Could Malcolm Offord, Reform UK’s leader in Scotland, be the next first minister after Thursday’s Holyrood elections? A glance at the polls suggests it’s an unlikely outcome, but, as the party sits neck and neck with Labour for second place, Reform is increasingly positioning itself for power north of the border. Finishing equal or close [...]Read More...

Scotland’s elections disguise the reality that the SNP is a spent force

The sudden absence of colour then, even on something as mundane as a packet of potato crisps, is disturbing.

The conflict in Iran is having serious knock-on effects around the world, from cancelled flights as jet fuel supplies run short to fears about the food supply as fertiliser prices increase.

Japan is not the crime free paradise it is sometimes, rather patronizingly, depicted as.