John Swinney’s wounds are self-inflicted
John Swinney has said that he will make sure the public sees enough of him over the election campaign. But…
The SNP has finally given up on Greta Thunberg
It is less than three years since Nicola Sturgeon was taking selfies with Greta Thunberg at the COP26 climate talks…
Can Scottish Labour really vanquish the SNP?
There is a distinct air of unreality about the position of the Scottish Labour party as it enters this election…
This election couldn’t come at a worse time for the SNP
The last time John Swinney was leader of the SNP, 20 years ago, the party went on to return only…
The SNP vows to make poverty history – again
There is a weary inevitability about Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, promising to ‘eradicate child poverty’ as his ‘single most…
Everything is an emergency after SNP rule
After nearly 17 years in office the Scottish government has finally accepted the truth: it is incompetent. It has declared…
Has the SNP really turned its back on identity politics?
The term ‘progressive’ has been much abused in the past decade. Originally a term denoting enlightenment and social universalism, it became…
The war on Kate Forbes
Kate Forbes has yet to throw her hat into the ring for the SNP leadership race, but already the campaign…
Whoever wins the SNP leadership race, the party loses
None of the candidates for the SNP leadership has declared yet, but it is shaping up to be a classic…
Did Nicola Sturgeon kill Humza Yousaf’s Alba deal?
After the tears, the recriminations. Just who scuppered the putative deal between Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan MSP that could…
The final tragedy of ‘Humza the Brief’
If, as expected, Humza Yousaf resigns today as First Minister of Scotland, it will be the beginning of the end…
How Humza Yousaf could survive
Did Humza Yousaf think it through? When he decided, late on Wednesday night, to pull the plug on the Green-SNP…
Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?
Scottish politics may be about to enter the abyss following the disintegration of the Green-SNP coalition. The Scottish Conservatives have…
Peter Murrell’s re-arrest has plunged the SNP into crisis
There is what can only be described as a mood of despair in SNP circles following the news that the…
Humza Yousaf could never realise Sturgeon’s fantasy climate plans
It was Cop26 in Glasgow and Nicola Sturgeon was in her element, posing for selfies with Greta Thunberg, David Attenborough…
The Greens are embarrassing the SNP
For an image of the ‘progressive nationalism’ that has disfigured Scottish public life over the past decade, look no further…
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act may have done us all a favour
Scotland’s Hate Crime Act (HCA) has, by common agreement, been an unmitigated disaster. Less than a week old, there are…
Who would trust Holyrood with legalising euthanasia?
Would you trust this lot with assisted dying? The Scottish parliament’s record on issues of personal liberty has been pretty…
Scotland’s pound shop Stasi
The Scottish government’s illiberal Hate Crime and Public Order Act isn’t even being enforced yet and already Police Scotland are…
The scandal of Scotland’s illiberal hate crime law
From next month in Scotland you’ll be able to drop into a sex shop, make an anonymous accusation of hate crime…
George Galloway will be a nuisance for Keir Starmer
The return of ‘Gorgeous’ George Galloway to the House of Commons may not be Keir Starmer’s worst nightmare, but it…
How Nicola Sturgeon saved the Union
It may seem perverse to claim that the former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon saved the Union between Scotland and…
Edinburgh University’s new rector must save it from gender ideology
Simon Fanshawe has been installed as the rector of Edinburgh University. The arrival of the comedian and Stonewall dissident to…
Nicola Sturgeon wasn’t the only one to politicise the pandemic
Nicola Sturgeon ‘could cry from one eye if she wanted to,’ Alister Jack told the UK Covid Inquiry this morning.…
The SNP’s Covid reckoning
We now know from evidence to the Covid Inquiry that Scottish government ministers were as prone to offensive language as…
