MURRELL’S GUILTY PLEA cannot be the end of the SNP scandal: it must be the start of the audit Scotland needs. Peter Murrell has now admitted what the SNP spent years hoping would disappear into procedural fog. The former chief executive of the Scottish National Party has pleaded guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh […]
Day: 25 May 2026
Politicians vs poverty
THERE IS A CERTAIN TYPE of person in politics, media and public life who genuinely believes they understand poverty because they have read reports about it, attended conferences on it, or sat through meetings discussing “areas of deprivation” while sipping coffee that costs more than some families have to feed themselves for a day. They […]
Holyrood’s decadence: how gender politics marginalises truth and class
LAST WEEK I BROKE the news on this site that the Scottish Parliament had erased gender as a classification category on its website after initially categorising Iris Duane, a biological man self-identifying as a woman, as female and inventing a third category – non-binary – for Q Manivannan. Since then, it has caused quite a […]