Ian Johnston Editor
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  • National World

Comment editor The Scotsman & Edinburgh Evening News.

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10 Articles
4 days ago
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Five reasons why the Scottish Greens are bad for the environment

If it is possible to characterise those concerned about climate change as incompetent, unreasonable, hard-left zealot...

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11 days ago
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Severed heads to stunted sperm: Cost of 460 million tons of plastic every year is high

Much of the modern world was built on plastic but we should avoid treating it as something sacred and face up to the ...

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13 days ago
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Amid fears of second US Civil War, Donald Trump's opponents must stand with him

Violence is democracy’s greatest enemy and must be opposed by all

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20 days ago
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Why this disastrous WWI defeat should serve as a warning about climate change

In war, hard reality cannot be avoided. The same is true in the fight against climate change

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about 1 month ago
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How the Conservatives created the monster that's destroying them

The mismatch between Tory rhetoric on immigration and record high levels of new arrivals has fuelled the rise of the ...

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3 months ago
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Amid SNP and Conservative leadership chaos, there's been one silver lining – Christine Jardine

Amid the chaos of recent years, one slither of compensation has been the diversity which has marked political leaders...

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3 months ago
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Rishi Sunak's Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill sees politicians assume a terrifying...

The US State Department, Human Rights Watch and others paint a terrifying picture of human rights in Rwanda but soon ...

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9 months ago
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Passions: Chess has taught me some valuable life lessons

Even if a problem seems impossibly difficult, the solution could be right under your nose

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9 months ago
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Suella Braverman has a point about immigration. But she's wrong about the solution – Ian Johnston

Suella Braverman’s description of migration as an ‘invasion’ and Donald Trump’s claim that immigrants are ‘poisoning ...

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12 months ago
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With carbon emissions, temperatures and extreme weather all increasing, humanity is failing to me...

After 35 years of complacency bred by optimism that global warming can be stopped, a dose of ‘doomism’ may be require...

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