Westminster is imploding, yet there is near radio silence from nationalists when it comes indy, our Writer at Large, Neil Mackay, argues.

This article appears as part of the Unspun: Scottish Politics newsletter.

History is littered with leaders who waited too long and lost, or folk who could have had it all but failed to seize the moment. 

Napoleon farted around on the day of the Battle of Waterloo, waiting until noon for the ground to dry after rain. He gave the Prussians time to enter the fray with the Duke of Wellington. 

And that was the end of Old Boney.

Nazi generals waited hours to send Panzers to the Normandy beaches as the Allies landed during D-Day, because their drug-addled Führer liked sleeping late and they didn’t want to wake him to ask permission. 

Bye-bye Nazi generals. Bye-bye Adolf.

At the Battle of Marathon in 490BC, Persians delayed attacking the Athenians as they were too cocky by half. They lost the initiative, lost their advantage and lost the war.

In the early 1970s, Kodak invented the first digital camera but hesitated pushing it to market, allowing others to capitalise on the technology.

In 2000, the founder of a struggling startup - called Netflix - offered to sell the company to Blockbuster. Blockbuster was too busy dominating the video market, though. It later went bankrupt.

Sometimes you’ve got to act; sometimes the circumstances are so ripe for action that failing to make a decisive move seems like self-defeating madness.

Whoever is lying about the QEUH scandal needs hunted down and dealt with

Still backing Trump? Will don’t........

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