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![]() Guy StenhouseHerald Scotland |
Nicola Sturgeon has at long last said something which I entirely agree with. She said she felt a “sense of relief” as she announced she would not...
The recent trip by President Zelenskyy to the White House was not a success. If you watch the meeting you do wonder if the whole thing was a set up....
Does it feel to you that things are worse than they were 20 years ago? That the country has gone backwards? As each individual decline or difficulty...
The minority SNP Government has managed to get its budget overwhelmingly approved by the Scottish Parliament. Politically this is a triumph. Labour...
The Scottish Government has commenced a consultation on making the speed limit on single carriageway roads 50mph rather than the current 60mph. ...
Donald Trump is about to become President of the United States. Again. He is unfit for high office. More than just unpleasant to women, he is a serial...
Scotland’s islands, some of the most beautiful places in the world, are failing socially and economically. Evidence of the decline is falling and...
I recently returned from a meeting with a company which operates in the hospitality industry. A good quality rural hotel with great food. Like...
With an amusing lack of self-awareness, Kate Forbes, the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, has warned that the UK Government’s recent decision to...
The SNP Government has finally hit on a different plan to the one which has involved the repeated pressing of the self-destruct button for the past...
The Labour party is finding that being in government is rather harder than being in opposition. The latter just involves saying everything the...
You may find this hard to believe but the UK Labour Government has just done something extremely sensible although you probably won’t have noticed....
The new Labour Government at Westminster has had a poor start with three own goals. First, the restriction of the Winter Fuel Allowance to those on...
Party conferences are odd things. By their nature they are a gathering of the faithful who fervently believe in what their party stands for. This...
In 1945 Allied forces advancing from both East and West smashed their way into Germany. In that final chapter of the Second World War, until...
One of the most irritating media trends is the increasing use of hyperbole. An easy example is the climate 'emergency'. In an emergency you don’t...
The Labour party are back in Government in Westminster and with a share of the vote in Scotland up nearly 20 per cent. The SNP may pretend they...
Labour’s triumph in the UK General Election is a key moment in our recent political history. What marks it out is not just the scale of the victory...