
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

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

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

MOST SEASONED OBSERVERS of political campaigning realise an individual poll is only ever a snapshot of a particular moment. Care

ONE OF THE REASONS I was attracted to Malcolm Offord becoming leader of Reform UK Scotland, was that he not

REFORM’S EMERGENCE has unsettled something in Scottish public life. It has done so largely because it challenges a long-standing and

REFORM’S Scotland conference at Bishopton last Thursday marked another watershed for the party. The party introduced its 73 candidates and

IN THIS WEEK’S Scotsman I wrote about how “Brexit Derangement Syndrome” lives rent free in the minds of many politicians,

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform