There is a reason why I had to spend some time thinking about a potential European response to a threat from the USA over Greenland
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As many readers here will know, I write for The National in Scotland, which is the only pro-independence newspaper in that country. I am proud
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A recent comment from RobertJ on this blog made me smile, and then made me think. He wrote of Funding the Future: Topsy has growed
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I was talking to a journalist yesterday. It is an occupational hazard of my role. He was interested in the traffic data for my YouTube
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The Funding the Future team had what you might call an “awayday” yesterday, except that it did not last all day, and we only went
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A number of people have asked of late if we might make it easier to share articles published here, and some suggested it would be
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The suggestion was made here yesterday that Funding the Future should turn itself into a think tank and seek more formal bases for funding for
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Voltaire supposedly said: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. The logic is that if people surrender their reason and
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With Christmas and New Year well and truly over, it seems like a good time to remind you that we are holding an in-person event
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