David Leask
Herald Scotland
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Would a Canadian-style compromise kill off demand for independence?
HIS party has just suffered once of its worst ever election defeats. And its ultimate goal, Quebec independence, has been written off by a lot of… → Read More
Crimea invasion remains largely forgotten in midst of wider conflict
Putin’s war on Ukraine began on the Black Sea peninsula. Will it end there too? → Read More
What would a 'voluntary British union' actually look like?
ON the northern edge of Belfast, in the leafy grounds of the city’s zoo, there is an old, half-forgotten ballroom. → Read More
David Leask: The far right are hijacking Scotland’s trans rights row
HE insisted he had every right to protest. Wrapped up in a parka and a coolie hat, the man had come to Glasgow’s George Square to rally against… → Read More
The Russian distillers damaging sales of Scots whisky
He does not like whisky much. → Read More
Will Vladimir Putin kill off Scottish independence?
HE is, of course, the most dangerous man in the world. → Read More
Can UK tolerate diversity between Scotland and England? It seems not
Sometimes it just takes one word to tell a whole story. It did for Alister Jack in the House of Commons this week. The Scotland Secretary was… → Read More
Scotland must follow EU and UK to stop the rich gagging their critics
This is a column about the news you will never read. Or rather, it is about the headlines which baddies – provided they are rich enough – make… → Read More
Nailya Asker-Zade and Elon Musk: Russian ‘stars’ peddling propaganda
Nailya Asker-Zade, a prime-time Russian state TV presenter, had scored a mini propaganda coup. → Read More
Does being born in Scotland make you more Scottish than a new arrival?
New Scots. These two little words seem to have an astonishing power to wind up all the worst people. → Read More
We should focus on the truth about Nazi sympathisers in Scotland
HE was the worst of us: a traitor, a scoundrel and a frothing, Jew-hating zealot. → Read More
Why so many Yessers are really unionists at heart
Scottish nationalists just love Britain. Or rather a lot of Yessers like *some things* about UK so much that they want to keep them. Even after… → Read More
David Leask: Why we must stand up for Russia’s beleaguered liberals
IT IS normally pretty slick, Dozhd. But the Riga-based Russian independent TV station earlier this week seemed to broadcast bumps, jolts and clicks. → Read More
David Leask: Not all political spin is as dark as Malcolm Tucker
NEVER become the story. This, surely, is a basic aim of public relations professionals. But not one, it seems, that is in the reach of the Scottish… → Read More
Scotland's dirtiest council areas revealed in new study
Scotland’s dirtiest council areas have been revealed with the capital being the worst in the country for litter-strewn streets, according to a new… → Read More
David Leask: The need for vigilance over the far right’s ‘Fourth Wave’
SOME call it the “Fourth Wave”. The Far Right is – once again – surging across Europe. → Read More
David Leask: Why are Remainers so afraid of the single currency?
WE reporters, like everybody else, have our little biases, political or otherwise. And they sometimes show, whether we like it or not. → Read More
David Leask: Scotland beware – polarised politics can mean terrible politicians
HIS campaign, said one media critic, has been ‘vanilla”. Robert Trim is running for Georgia’s House of Representatives, in the liberal-leaning… → Read More
Can Greens be nationalists? Sure, and unionists too.
It is the kind of neighbourhood that cheesy guidebooks – if they give it any thought at all – might call boho, hipster even. Montreal’s once… → Read More
David Leask: How Russians fleeing Putin's mobilisation are changing the world
A MILLION. That, very roughly, is how many Russians have left their country since Vladimir Putin stepped up his war on Ukraine earlier this year. It… → Read More