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Do you know Cammy Day? Of course you do, because of his resignation as leader of Edinburgh’s council amid allegations of inappropriate messages...
Scottish politics was terribly simple in the early days of devolution. It was Labour’s baby more than it was anyone else’s. Tony Blair and Gordon...
Let us first dispense the negatives. There was much in this Scottish Government Budget to concern us. The increased expenditure on the NHS meets...
Back in July, the words "Anas Sarwar, First Minister" seemed to be etched in stone. Labour had filleted the SNP at the General Election, going from...
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"‘Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good" is a phrase which feels like it was invented for Bosnia in Herzegovina. I am writing from the eastern...
Of all the gambles taken by Chancellor Rachel Reeves and her Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at this week’s Budget, the most obvious one...
I turned 45 yesterday. This is not a request for comments or letters to the editor to wish me many happy returns, although, reader, you are of course...
Alex Salmond’s final tweet, sent just a few hours before his death last Saturday, was quintessential of the man and the politician. Its valedictory...
It’s all looking a bit 2023 in Scottish politics this week. Headlines across Scotland’s newspapers point to the possibility of the Scottish...
What happens to a government which has been in office for nearly 20 years? It usually loses. What about a government which has been in office for...
Barring some sort of paranormal intervention, this morning we will see Russell Findlay announced as the new leader of the Scottish Conservative and...
It is awfully easy not to take the Liberal Democrats seriously. I get it. I get the Lib Dem cringe just as much as the next person. It was very...
Seventy-two days ago, Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. It was, in a sense, a classic change election, much like David Cameron’s in 2010, and...
Helen Keller, the author and activist who became deaf and blind as a baby before going on to write 14 books, said that optimism is the faith that...
Reader, I bear bad news. You thought that, with the General Election out of the way, you could put your politicians back in a box for a while and...
Early last week, I had the pleasure of visiting Kirkwall as we recorded the second episode of the Holyrood Sources podcast’s Islands Tour. Sitting...
Nominations for candidates wanting to stand in the Scottish Tory leadership contest close today. One candidate has already voluntarily dropped out,...
James Cleverly is an accomplished man. He is, outwardly, a good politician, and those who know him tell me he was a good minister, in charge of his...
Over the last few weeks, since the departure of Joe Biden from this year’s Presidential race and his replacement with Kamala Harris, there has been...
HELLE Thorning-Schmidt, the former Prime Minister of Denmark, last month appeared on the Leading version of The Rest is Politics podcast, hosted by...
A period of silence on your part would be welcome. This quote was made famous by Clement Atlee in 1945, but it was used in a message to me just the...
Ireland is building another motorway. Fifty miles of it, between Cork and Limerick, designed specifically to ensure that infrastructure development...
Most honeymoons are glorious. A week into the new New Labour era, Sir Keir Starmer’s is proving to be so. This is the easiest his time in Downing...
A boring election, they said. No. This weekend we can reflect on one of the most impactful and consequential general elections in many of our...
To be read by you, the readers, in the longest running national newspaper in the world is a tremendous honour. However, it must be admitted that in a...
Next week’s general election is, in truth, pretty boring. Or, let me be more specific, it is pretty boring in England. The overarching unknown...
This is a story about Willie Rennie, in the main. I have always liked Mr Rennie. He is the sort of MSP we should all want at the Scottish Parliament....
Margaret Thatcher said that being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, then you aren’t. Lady Thatcher was immensely...
In 1986 in Calgary, a provincial political figure named Preston Manning convened a meeting of a handful of key confidants to discuss the political...
“I would describe myself as a socialist”. So said Prime Minister-in-waiting Sir Keir Starmer this week, in answer to what has been one of those...
The first few days of this general election campaign have been characterised by Rishi Sunak’s dismal campaign management. From wet suits and sinking...
In politics, metaphors are very dangerous. At 5.13pm on Wednesday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stood in Downing Street, intending to deliver eight...
Life was looking pretty sweet for Anas Sarwar and the Scottish Labour Party, a month-or-so ago. Ahead of the impending Westminster General...
Compromise normally makes a good umbrella, but often a poor roof. John Swinney, Scotland’s new First Minister, will hope that the roof will be good...
Smart people do smart things, after all. To be honest, it’s been a while since the SNP made a clever, strategic move. This political party made a...
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity. These words were first attributed to the Chinese general Sun Tzu over 2,500 years ago, but they...
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, passed in 2021 and brought into force earlier this month, will probably stand the test of time. Amidst...
A common thread runs through governments which are nearer the end than the start of their time in office. The disconnect between the government and...
Nineteen and 41. In respect of this year’s looming General Election, and the number of seats to be won by the SNP, these are wildly different...
It has been over 40 years since former Chancellor Nigel Lawson said that “the NHS is the closest thing the English people have to a religion”. We...
The problem with target dates is that they come around, sooner or later. This is not to say that targets are bad - they are not, and they can focus...
“There shall be a Scottish Parliament’. I like that.” So said Donald Dewar, Scotland’s first First Minister, reading from the Scotland Bill...
When news broke on Tuesday evening that Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross was on "resignation watch", joined the next day by his colleague and...
Liz Truss is Britain’s type on paper. The daughter of a university professor father and a mother who was a teacher and nurse, young Elizabeth grew...
Why is the only party of the centre-right in Scotland so far away from government? As the Labour Party becomes more sensible under Sir Keir Starmer...
It’s all change, again, at BBC Scotland. Five years after the launch of The Nine and Seven Days on its new channel, BBC Scotland has put both...
Who would be Neil Gray? Eight short days ago, Mr Gray was the Scottish Government’s Economy Secretary. Scotland’s economy is not in good shape,...
Scottish Labour gathers in Glasgow this weekend in both a mental and electoral state few thought achievable just a short few years ago. Having polled...
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