Superb piece by Brian Monteith in The Scotsman today, analysing how sleekit Starmer's Labour is. They are already much worse than I imagined they could be. scotsman.com/news/opinion/d…

Don’t be fooled by Labour taking the British public for mugs “The budget will change the basic use of taxes from raising government revenues towards punishing success in the pursuit of levelling down” My latest The Scotsman column bit.ly/4gjHcau

Superb piece by Brian Monteith nailing the mendacity of the atrocious pair now steering Britain's economy towards the rocks.. ‘Starmer and Reeves know if they had been honest before the election even Sunak would have stood a chance of beating them’. scotsman.com/news/opinion/d…

Another excellent piece by that great pyramid of Scottish journalism… brilliantly written and he’s not wrong too!

Labour is lying through its teeth about the winter fuel raid “Labour wanted this fuss, and the more hysterical the better, for the more people get anxious the more they can be expected to believe the black hole is real.” My latest for the The Telegraph bit.ly/4gdlZPe

Brian knows 👇

Argentinian President Javier Milei has just announced that a 17.5% tax on imports will be abolished. He rightly points out that most small taxes just cause economic damage & should be scrapped We should do likewise

Your work is not just important it is vital and it is greatly appreciated. I don't know anyone who claims Churchill was perfect, he was as much a human as any of us and was a human of his time, different from my time in the 60s through to now – BUT what he did for this country

Labour's ludicrous suggestion that not making its £1.4 bn cut to pensioner fuel payments would cause a run on the pound is part of an information warfare effort to deceive people into accepting large tax hikes in the autumn budget It's a deliberate ploy, says Brian Monteith 1/3

The £9bn hike in public sector pay, reversal of the feeeze on civil srrvice recruitment, setting up the uncosted GB Energy and the National Wealth Fund - all "needing taxes that the Halloween Budget will deliver," says Brian.

The controversial reaction was predictable. "Labour wanted this fuss, and the more hysterical the better, for the more people debate and get anxious or angry the more they can be expected to believe the mystical black hole is real & that the cruel Tories were the cause".

I managed a record shop in Westbourne Grove London ( Disci, one of a small chain) when this was released...We sold over a thousand copies on the day of release. This track absolutely 'blew people's minds'.. I was a young man back in the 1960s. Fab remix👍 youtu.be/rml9gjwAnOo?si…

SNP austerity is only going to get worse – so give us an election instead "The fact is decisions have consequences and the SNP have had seventeen years of bad decisions they cannot bring themselves to admit to and reverse." My latest The Scotsman column. bit.ly/4e6Kb46

Excellent as usual, the truth is there's been no #Austerity in public finances since the 1940s #Austeritymyarse

"The hard fact is, as the Scottish Government’s independent Fiscal Commission and the Scottish Parliament researchers have both laid out before – decisions have consequences and the SNP have had seventeen years of bad decisions they cannot bring themselves to admit to and

A few years ago, I visited the Leffe brewery in Belgium and brought home a Leffe glass like the one below. I'm going to throw it out and use plain beer glasses instead when I drink at home because obviously that will make me drink far less beer. Isn't The SNP government great?

That’s one of the great days of #NFFC’s modern history. Even in the glory years - when Forest replaced Liverpool as kings of Europe (not sure we ever mentioned it) - we NEVER won at Anfield. Last one was February 1969! So today is special/emotional 🌳👌🏻

I thought that was the worse ‘Last Night of the Proms’ I’d ever seen - lacking atmosphere; desperately needing ‘Proms in the Park’ brought back into main schedule again to add joyous patriotic celebration - and more classic music - less TV themes - and far less chat. I love

I note both ‘slim Jim’ Baxter and the incredible Joe Baker (assist for the second goal) played in that match. Ron Yeats and Ian St John played in the Liverpool team. Those were the days when many Scots were key to English teams’ success. Why not now?

A more reliable Boris well worth following…