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
THE SCOTLAND ACT 1998 gave extensive powers to Holyrood to allow it to control most of the levers required to