AS I SIT HERE reflecting on the recent election campaign, I am proud of the determination and dignity with which
AS PREDICTED, the nationalist vote fell considerably in last week’s Holyrood election. The combined vote of the SNP and Greens
I LIKE RUSSELL FINDLAY, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives. He comes across as amiable and warm, intelligent and with
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
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.
MOST SEASONED OBSERVERS of political campaigning realise an individual poll is only ever a snapshot of a particular moment. Care
EASTER HERALDS campaigning season in Scotland. I always associate daffodils with the strange tension and excitement of elections. This one