Mr John Brown is clearly an emotionally spontaneous chap. This piece of mine from June 2012 will attest to that fact. In the ...

Anyone who has travelled to the northeast of this country will have noticed the profusion of Israeli flags marking out the boundaries of Loyalist areas. Despite a rather unfortunate penchant for ...

So that’s that then. Season 2024-25 is a wrap! With the final kick of the ball at Hampden, Celtic failed to do yet another treble. It is a mark of the Parkhead club’s dominance that this is a shock.

Well, that’s that then. Finally, Nedball (copyright Alan Morrison) was undone by some Basque brilliance at the back post. Disappointing. Consequently, it would be remiss of your humble correspondent ...

The year 2012 was epochal in Scottish football and the broader civil society. Quite simply, the feud between two clubs that started in 1888 was over. Celtic had won. They were the last club standing.

Armed Forces Day is always good for a laugh at the stadium John Brown played for. Of course, it’s all pretend. In this century, the British Army has been involved in two major conflicts, Afghanistan ...

Full disclosure: I’m gonna miss him. Particularly his post-match observations, which were for the ages. Of course, such magical realism doesn’t come cheap. Someone somehow will have to honour the ...

These are difficult days for those who ascribe to the Hovis advert version of Britain’s bloodstained history. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, the UK government is ...

As an undergraduate at York University in the 1980s, my degree was split between the Politics Department and Laurie Taylor’s sociology fiefdom. The former was, in the main, a rather dusty environment ...

My observation last week that the SFA had, perhaps, chosen the wrong issue to close with a lawyered-up Celtic might be worth another read. I had a long chat today with an impeccably placed source, who ...

Today I sent the following question to UEFA. I received the following replay within three hours. Here is the link that is referred to in the UEFA email. For the avoidance of doubt, although my ...