
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

AS I SIT HERE reflecting on the recent election campaign, I am proud of the determination and dignity with which

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

IMAGINE THE HEADLINE: “Reform UK pledges to reduce the NHS Scotland budget by 20%”. NHS expenditure in Scotland is about

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

EASTER HERALDS campaigning season in Scotland. I always associate daffodils with the strange tension and excitement of elections. This one

WHAT DO YOU DO about a government that governs not in the clear interests of its own people but to

THE UNITED KINGDOM is the biggest loser in the Israeli/American attack on Iran, entirely due to our Prime Minister, Sir

JOHN SWINNEY’S LATEST EPISODE, the brief flirtation with banning US military flights from Prestwick Airport, followed by a swift retreat

THERE was a general feeling of excitement when, at 6.30 a.m. on a weekday, I joined a coach full of