About

airt publishes independent analysis of Scottish governance, public infrastructure, and the institutions that run them. The interest is in how public power is actually exercised, not how it’s described: who owns a decision, what a contract commits the country to, where a legal duty falls and whether anyone discharges it. The policy on paper is the easy part. The machinery underneath it is the subject.

The work is sourced, and meant to be checked. Every load-bearing claim traces to a primary record, a freedom-of-information response, a statute, a published contract, testimony given under oath, each named and dated, with the references set out in full so you can walk the chain yourself. Trust isn’t the ask. Verification is.

The habit behind that is a tester’s. airt is written by a retired quality-assurance analyst, working with the tools the trade now uses, the way QA always did: take nothing on the vendor’s word, and assume a claim is wrong until its evidence holds. The name on the work is the mark, not the person. Where a process requires a real one, a petition, an evidence session, a freedom-of-information request, it gets it; everywhere else the analysis stands on its sources, not its author.

Longer pieces appear as papers, shorter ones as essays, each in full text and as a typeset PDF.

Contact

Email: submissions@airt.scot

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