Kate Forbes’s gay marriage blunder
Mistakenly, I assumed that politicians supporting Kate Forbes’ campaign to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the SNP understood she…
Nicola Sturgeon was made – and destroyed – by independence
The greatest trick an ideologue can ever pull off is convincing people they are not, in fact, an ideologue. But…
Nicola Sturgeon isn’t above the law
The first thing to say is that the argument between the Scottish government and the British government over the former’s…
James Cleverly’s shameful silence on the fate of Jimmy Lai
Have you heard about the British citizen facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in a Chinese…
It could soon be game over for Nicola Sturgeon
The idea that a referendum on Scottish independence could be held without it having any bearing on the constitution of…
Truss’s Sturgeon jibe is bound to backfire
If the first rule of leadership is, as Barack Obama once said, ‘don’t do stupid shit’ then this Tory leadership…
The impossibility of separating Scotland from Britain
A ‘global’ history of Scotland must, by its very nature, be one of Britain and Empire too, says Alex Massie
Boris’s implosion was inevitable
So it ends as it was always likely to end: as a disgrace inside a shambles, lost in a fog…
Another Scottish independence referendum is coming
Despite what the SNP and its supporters insist, Nicola Sturgeon did not ‘announce’ a second referendum on independence today. Far…
The game is up, Boris Johnson
The worst possible outcome for the Conservative and Unionist party is also a pretty lousy result for the country. That…
Rest in peace, Shane Warne
Headingly, July 22nd 1993 and the opening day of the fourth test that summer between England and Australia. This, as…
Boris must go!
Conservative sympathisers, Conservative voters and Conservative parliamentarians have a simple choice to make this week. Do they stand by a…
Boris's dwindling bunch of supporters must now come clean
Oh for heaven’s sake, come off it. British politics has long had a comfortable relationship with the absurd but this…
Douglas Ross is right: Boris Johnson must go
In May 2020 Douglas Ross resigned from Boris Johnson’s government. Though only a junior minister in the Scotland Office –…
The unfathomable inadequacy of Boris Johnson
There is no room for wriggling here and not just because multiple witnesses put Boris Johnson and his wife at…
The joy of Boris’s bungled by-election
By any reasonable standard the result in the North Shropshire by-election must be reckoned the funniest in years. Perhaps even…
Boris Johnson is eating reality
It is neither fair nor correct to say it was obvious from the moment Boris Johnson became Prime Minister that…
Is this the beginning of the end for Nicola Sturgeon?
The SNP are holding their annual conference this weekend and, the times being what they are, it is a virtual…
Boris's rail betrayal is no surprise
A promise made is merely a promise waiting to be broken. If events complicate life for all governments it is…
Labour’s Scottish problem isn’t going away
Certain questions are eternal and many of them are correspondingly dreary too. ‘How should Labour deal with the SNP?’ and…
Is Boris brave enough to confront the truth about the NHS?
If a government does not wish to break a manifesto promise it should punt fewer such ‘promises’ into its manifesto.…
The 'mandate wars' won't be resolved anytime soon
So what does it all mean? The first thing to bear in mind is that more than one thing may…
Scottish nationalism is no better than any other kind
Even the Americans are noticing Nicola Sturgeon now and if you are – like many nationalists – the kind of…
Does anyone doubt Boris's leaked 'bodies' comment?
Of course Boris Johnson raged, King Lear-like, that he was prepared to ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’…
Alex Salmond is a gift to the Unionist cause
If Alex Salmond and his new Alba party did not exist, pro-Union parties would find it necessary to invent them.…
