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…
Nicola Sturgeon’s remarkable downfall
As she faced her final press conference of 2022 last Christmas, the first minister of Scotland seemed unassailable. Nicola Sturgeon…
It’s time for Humza Yousaf to end this gender bill farce
The first minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, has a painful choice following his latest defeat in the Court of Session…
The mystery of the Covid Inquiry’s missing WhatsApps
It will no doubt be referred to in Whitehall circles in future as the ‘Jason Leitch protocol’. Scotland’s clinical director…
Humza Yousaf has irreparably damaged the independence project
As the SNP gathers for its conference in Aberdeen this weekend, Humza Yousaf faces a sea of trouble. But worst…
Humza Yousaf is becoming a master at alienating Scottish voters
At last, a target Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf should have no trouble meeting. Waiting lists? The attainment gap? Dualling the…
Humza Yousaf’s first 100 days
Today marks Humza Yousaf’s 100 days as First Minister, yet not even that has gone right: the nationalist leader has…
Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest was inevitable
There was an air of inevitability about the arrest today of Nicola Sturgeon. The SNP had been braced for it.…
Scotland awaits the fate of the Third Woman
Scottish politics has never been more febrile. If we go a day without an arrest, a resignation, a revelation about…
Humza Yousaf won’t be celebrating for long
Humza Yousaf has a reputation for being a bit of a crowd-pleaser and, true to form, everyone seemed inordinately happy…
The Windsor Framework isn’t the blessing Scottish nationalists think it is
Is the Windsor Framework a get-out-of-jail card for Scottish nationalists? The excitement expressed in SNP circles at Rishi Sunak’s Protocol…
The SNP leadership race has turned into the mother of all culture wars
Bring back Nicola Sturgeon. The race to replace her as SNP leader and first minister has turned into the mother…
Nicola Sturgeon is a hard act to follow
Nicola Sturgeon insisted last month she had ‘plenty in the tank’, but apparently the First Minister was already running on…
Gender wars: the Union’s new battle line
When Rishi Sunak had dinner with Nicola Sturgeon last week, the idea was to show he was interested in a…
Why we should take the Twitter Files seriously
‘Shadowbanning’, ‘visibility filtering’, ‘de-amplification’ – the Twitter Files released since Elon Musk took over have given us a new and sinister language…
Gordon Brown doesn’t understand what Scottish voters want
Only Gordon Brown could come up with a 40-point plan for constitutional renewal. ‘Less is more’ is not a principle…
How a tweet got me sacked
How a silly little bit of satire got me sacked
