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Giving Gaelic official status in Scotland and creating a quango have been of little practical use to the language, writes Brian Wilson.

Given the size of the Conservative majority, Labour must embrace hard graft in committees, cross-party working and iron discipline in order to provide effective opposition, writes Brian Wilson.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon may be pining for Norway’s fjords, but Brian Wilson prefers Scotland.

Communities on the edge will keep declining unless the Government’s ‘Plan for Scotland’s Islands’ changes, writes Brian Wilson

The new MP for East Lothian’s position on another Scottish referendum poses a significant challange to Nicola Sturgeon, writes Brian Wilson

The Christmas special of the BBC show Call the Midwife, set on Lewis and Harris, was one implausible scenario after another, writes Brian Wilson.

Few people who have had the kind of contact with the NHS that Brian Wilson has over the past year fail to realise the value of the institution, he writes.

The challenge for pro-Union politicians is to stop pro-independence parties from winning a majority of seats at the 2021 Holyrood election. The challenge for the Scottish Government is to ditch the constant division and fix Scotland’s many problems, writes Brian Wilson.

The SNP and Liberal Democrats, the two parties apparently most opposed to Brexit, agreed to hold the general election that Boris Johnson wanted, writes Brian Wilson.

Boris Johnson’s general election win was precipitated by a series of mistakes by people who refused to compromise and are now about to discover the consequences, writes Brian Wilson.

A claim that a Conservative aide was assaulted outside the Leeds hospital where a sick boy was forced to lie on the floor was untrue, but the source of this disinformation is still not known, writes Brian Wilson.

Chancellor Sajid Javid’s claim that homelessness has halved since 2008 is not supported by the statistics or the evidence of one’s own eyes, writes Brian Wilson.

A dinner in Inverness marked the tenth anniversary of a small charity with a fair number of those present pretty certain they would not have been there without it.

Demands from an unappeasable minority are stirring dangerous reactions in Spain, just as they are doing here, says Brian Wilson

I try to avoid calling for resignations, but the buck must stop with Health Secretary Jeane Freeman over the problems currently affecting the NHS in Scotland, writes Brian Wilson.

Most European countries have far better public services than the UK even if they are not particularly left-wing, writes Brian Wilson.

Where was the outrage after it was revealed workers on an offshore windfarm in the North Sea were paid a basic £3.40 a hour because of an “administrative error”, wonders Brian Wilson.

When it comes to Scottish independence, it is the ‘sovereign right of the Scottish people’ to determine their future – and currently that means staying in the Union, writes Brian Wilson.