Tag: Independence

Brian Monteith May 15, 2026 No Comments

FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, after first campaigning in Scottish elections since 1976 – some fifty years ago – and having

Tom Miers May 13, 2026 No Comments

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

Linda Holt May 11, 2026 No Comments

I LIKE RUSSELL FINDLAY, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. He comes across as amiable and warm, intelligent and with

James Glen May 4, 2026 No Comments

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

Pauline Eggermont April 27, 2026 4 Comments

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

Brian Monteith April 24, 2026 No Comments

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

David Stark April 8, 2026 No Comments

I WAS ABOUT to putt on the seventh green when a farmer started shooting, no more than a hundred metres

Jonathan Stanley March 30, 2026 No Comments

FOR TWENTY YEARS, we have been told that Scotland could be like Denmark, Norway, or Finland –if only we were

Malcolm Offord March 24, 2026 No Comments

GERS FIGURES CONFIRM a stark reality. Scotland raises £87.3bn in tax, yet spends £117.5bn. That leaves a £30bn deficit –