AS PREDICTED, the nationalist vote fell considerably in last week’s Holyrood election. The combined vote of the SNP and Greens
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
THIS YEAR is the nine hundredth anniversary of Rutherglen’s foundation as a royal burgh. Given my family links with the
THE SPAT THAT HAS CLOSED the Straits of Hormuz has highlighted the UK’s vulnerability to imported oil and (particularly) gas.
EASTER HERALDS campaigning season in Scotland. I always associate daffodils with the strange tension and excitement of elections. This one
WHEN I WAS A STUDENT, I had a Voltaire quote pinned above my desk: “Those who can make you believe