
The Holyrood election system is being cheated: The second vote must be reformed.
AS PREDICTED, the nationalist vote fell considerably in last week’s Holyrood election. The combined vote of the SNP and Greens

AS PREDICTED, the nationalist vote fell considerably in last week’s Holyrood election. The combined vote of the SNP and Greens

WELSH POLITICS is different to the rest of the UK in a way those who seldom venture outside the Westminster

ACROSS THIS ELECTION the result could not be clearer. British people do not like Labour and the Tories anymore. They

THE UK MEDIA seem incredulous that the SNP, on the face of it at least, performed so strongly in yesterday’s

JOHN SWINNEY wants Scots to believe that a £2 bus fare cap is the answer to the country’s transport woes.

THERE IS A PARTICULAR KIND OF POLITICAL GENIUS on display in Scotland right now. Not the kind that wins arguments

IT’S NOT LONG NOW before we face those two ballot papers and put our crosses in the right box. But

A YEAR OR SO AGO, the received wisdom of the established unionist parties was that the arrival of Reform UK

THERE IS A SPECIFIC, QUIET HORROR in realizing that the record of a journey has been wiped clean. I was