THERE IS A PHRASE increasingly used in British politics that sounds deceptively simple: “rejoining the European Union.” It suggests that
LAST WEEK, THE LEADERS OF THE SNP, PLAID CYMRU AND SINN FÉIN met in Cardiff to sign a memorandum calling
IN A RARE HARMATTAN-LIKE HEATWAVE THIS WEEK, I ended up in a Wetherspoons pub with a pint of squash, idly
IN DEBATES ABOUT SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE and full fiscal autonomy, many unionists make a category error. They assume they are arguing
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, after first campaigning in Scottish elections since 1976 – some fifty years ago – and having
I LIKE RUSSELL FINDLAY, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. He comes across as amiable and warm, intelligent and with
A YEAR OR SO AGO, the received wisdom of the established unionist parties was that the arrival of Reform UK
EASTER HERALDS campaigning season in Scotland. I always associate daffodils with the strange tension and excitement of elections. This one