Analysis and commentary on Scottish and UK politics, including Holyrood, Westminster and party developments.
OVER THE PAST DECADE OR SO, as a Brexit Party, then Reform activist, I’ve knocked on a fair few front
REFORM’S EMERGENCE has unsettled something in Scottish public life. It has done so largely because it challenges a long-standing and
GERS FIGURES CONFIRM a stark reality. Scotland raises £87.3bn in tax, yet spends £117.5bn. That leaves a £30bn deficit –
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Scotland has endured high spending and declining outcomes under successive governments in Holyrood. Despite record government expenditure,
REFORM’S Scotland conference at Bishopton last Thursday marked another watershed for the party. The party introduced its 73 candidates and
IN THIS WEEK’S Scotsman I wrote about how “Brexit Derangement Syndrome” lives rent free in the minds of many politicians,
RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform
WHAT DO YOU DO about a government that governs not in the clear interests of its own people but to
THE UNITED KINGDOM is the biggest loser in the Israeli/American attack on Iran, entirely due to our Prime Minister, Sir
FORTY YEARS AGO when I was at Oxford, the SWP, aka the Socialist Workers Party, were a thing. They sold