Marissa MacWhirter is the editor of The Glasgow Wrap. Each morning, Marissa curates the top local news stories from around the city, delivering them to your inbox at 7am daily so you can stay up ...

They say that the best disinfectant is light. In that case, the American government seems to be going through a deep ...

Former I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! star Iain Lee has bravely opened up about being sexually abuse he says he suffered as a child at the hands of scout group leaders. The 51-year-old ...

For Bennette, it was Inspector Leach who "evolved quite organically from that process", who soon became a mixture of "Battle, Angus MacWhirter and Battle’s nephew Jim Leach who is the local ...

What were they thinking? When Tony Blair agreed, in 2004, to legislation allowing transsexuals – as they were then called – to change their legal sex, he probably thought Labour was merely ‘being kind ...

Here are some of their hot takes. Some – like Craig Murray and Iain Macwhirter here – think that the CIA created gender policy division in order to split the independence movement. It’s a view echoed ...

WHILE sorting through old papers last week I came across a Scotsman article by Iain Macwhirter written a year after New Labour won the UK election in 1997. The article was a blistering attack on the ...

Muhsin Hendricks, the world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, was shot dead in Bethelsdorp, South Africa, on Saturday. While the police are still probing the murder, Imam Hendricks had repeatedly cited death ...

Kemi Badenoch made a speech today which mentioned the terms ‘liberal’ or ‘liberalism’ seven times before the word ‘conservative’ got a look in. The liberalism she was extolling in her address at the ...

Kemi Badenoch likes a good Thatcher comparison. The current Tory leader is presently reading Patrick Cosgrave’s account of the Iron Lady’s rise to the top. It was another book – John Ranelagh’s ...

Why, since the 1970s, has liberalism become so virulent? And why is it inclined to break down, or to drastically mutate, as we now see? In answer to the second question, liberalism involves a series ...