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
THE SCOTLAND ACT 1998 gave extensive powers to Holyrood to allow it to control most of the levers required to
SCOTLAND CONTROLS its own health system. Holyrood determines how services are structured, how clinicians are trained, and how governance operates.
ONE OF THE REASONS I was attracted to Malcolm Offord becoming leader of Reform UK Scotland, was that he not
FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Scotland has endured high spending and declining outcomes under successive governments in Holyrood. Despite record government expenditure,