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Alastair GJ Stewart

Alastair GJ Stewart

Alastair GJ Stewart is a freelance writer and public affairs consultant

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Sam Smith performs at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia in December (Picture: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Sam Smith is hurting no one but has become a target of culture war bigotry

The UK flag flies outside the European Parliament in Brussels on January 31, 2020, the day Britain formally left the EU (Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

Where's the public outrage over the awful reality of Brexit? – Alastair Stewart

Pope Francis recently said that 'the English resolved the requests from Scotland' about independence in 'the English way' (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Outsiders, from Sunak to expat celebrities, seem to want to dictate to Scotland

Food flows along with the wine at tapas bars like this one in Madrid (Picture: Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)

Scotland needs cafe culture to save nation from demon drink – Alastair Stewart

People who make New Year's resolutions often quit within a few weeks (Picture: Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Why we should probably all resolve to stop making New Year’s resolutions

Should Jeremy Clarkson's 'non-apology' for vile remarks about Meghan Markle be accepted? (Picture: PA)

Clarkson's remarks about Meghan are sign of a modern Dark Age – Alastair Stewart

Will Santa Claus bring something special for the SNP this year? (Picture: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Brooks Brothers)

Dear Santa, I’m a unionist but please give the SNP a referendum

Filming for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny took place in Glasgow last year (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Alastair Stewart: Hollywood may discover immortality for actors is no Holy Grail

Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock will both face questions from the Covid inquiry next year (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Hancock's jungle trip adds to feeling that politicians are in it for themselves

Nicola Sturgeon attends a pro-independence rally outside the Scottish Parliament after the UK Supreme Court rejected her plans for a referendum (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Sturgeon should resign over mishandling of Indyref2 push – Alastair Stewart

Pointing out the lack of detail in the SNP's plans for Scottish independence does not actually resolve the constitutional question (Picture: Russell Cheyne/pool/Getty Images)

Unionists who call themselves democrats cannot deny SNP a referendum

Nicola Sturgeon has made her opposition to nuclear weapons clear but the question is more complicated than it appears (Picture: Niklas Halle'n/AFP via Getty Images)

SNP’s flowery moralpolitik isn’t a serious foreign policy for indy Scotland

Some believe Albert Einstein had dyslexia but the idea that the condition makes you a creative savant is an infuriating cliché (Picture: Keystone/Getty Images)

It's times to drop the clichés about dyslexia – Alastair Stewart

How would Nicola Sturgeon have reacted if Liz Truss had said she detests Scottish nationalists? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Sturgeon's 'I detest the Tories' remark may set a bitter tone for indy push

Regardless of what Garfield thinks, if they say it on the television it isn't necessarily true (Picture: China Photos/Getty Images)

Films that 'fictionalise' reality are leading us astray – Alastair Stewart

Winston Churchill, left, with General Nevil Macready, at Braham Castle, Inverness, for a Cabinet meeting in 1921 (Picture: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Churchill loved Scotland. So why are there so many ugly myths about him?

An explosion rocks the Starship Enterprise

Scale modelling is to me as painting was to Churchill – Alastair Stewart

King Charles holds a meeting with Liz Truss and members of her Cabinet at Buckingham Palace (Picture: Jonathan Brady/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Truss and Charles need to learn from Nixon's successor – Alastair Stewart

The book has not died despite the rise of ebooks and never will (Picture: Clemens Bilan/Getty Images for Bread & Butter by Zalando)

Even in the Internet Age, the book will never die – Alastair Stewart

Unacceptable behaviour like shouting on a mobile phone, once parodied by Dom Jolly, has become the norm, says Alastair Stewart (Picture: Toby Melville/PA)

UK claims to be more socially aware but is becoming increasingly selfish

A giant portrait of former Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong passes by Tiananmen Square during a National Day parade in Beijing (Picture: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

SNP's permanent revolution is showing signs of Maoist tendencies

With the NHS under severe pressure, employers could help by improving their occupational health services and doing more to prevent accidents and injuries (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

How private businesses can ease the pressure on the NHS – Alastair Stewart

Nicola Sturgeon meets candidates at the council election count in Glasgow on May 6 (Picture: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

Unionists should learn from history and form an anti-SNP alliance

Boris Johnson may have convinced the British public they need a serious, even if dull, leader (Picture: Victoria Jones/PA)

How history shows UK may be ready for Starmer to replace Johnson

The phrase 'one-party state', which usually brings to mind North Korean totalitarianism, has been used to criticise the SNP (Picture: Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)

'One-party state' Scotland needs to find a resolution to its perennial problem

There were six per cent fewer marriages in Scotland in 2019, and seven per cent more divorces (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Netflix's The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On is wholesale relationship slaughter

Immortalised in wax: Jedi knights Obi-Wan Kenobi, left, and Qui Gon Yin take on Darth Maul at Madame Tussauds (Picture: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images)

We need fictional heroes to help us escape from reality – Alastair Stewart

Covid is still a most serious disease (Picture: Neil Hall/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Why we all still need to keep testing for Covid – Alastair Stewart

Ditching Russian art like the books of Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose statue in the city of Tobolsk is close to a prison where he was held, is a mistake (Picture: Alexander Aksakov/Getty Images)

Putin's regime, not ordinary Russians, is responsible for Ukraine war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference in Kyiv earlier this month (Picture: Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)

Zelensky is demonstrating that heroes really do exist – Alastair Stewart

Queen Elizabeth's unfalteringly impressive stoicism is a central part of the institution of monarchy (Picture: Oli Scarff/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Will Queen's Jubilee be a damp squib or a return to 2012's triumph?

Jodie Whittaker, who plays Dr Who, attends New York Comic Con (Picture: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

How toxic film fans are spreading their prejudices – Alastair Stewart