
What did we learn from the Holyrood elections?
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, after first campaigning in Scottish elections since 1976 – some fifty years ago – and having

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

THE RISE OF REFORM UK has triggered a kind of moral panic inside Britain’s political and media class. Instead of

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

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

HOW DUMB must a politician be to advocate, in all seriousness, a tax for the “super-rich” while simultaneously admitting to

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

THE SPAT THAT HAS CLOSED the Straits of Hormuz has highlighted the UK’s vulnerability to imported oil and (particularly) gas.

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