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Iain Macwhirter

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How Scotland turned against assisted dying

When the Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP, Liam McArthur, first tabled his Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill two years ago, the...

18.03.2026 9

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The SNP’s useless land revolution

07.11.2025 10

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Energy / Badenoch’s Tories have seen sense on North Sea Oil. Will Starmer?

02.09.2025 10

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What is the point of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir?

14.08.2025 10

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Why is Nicola Sturgeon fighting the ghost of Alex Salmond?

11.08.2025 8

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Kate Forbes’s exit is proof the SNP has lost its way

04.08.2025 9

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Scotland’s ‘Stop Trump’ movement is not what it was

25.07.2025 10

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The ridiculous fantasy of a Scottish universal basic income

18.06.2025 6

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Scotland’s Ecocide Bill is pure moral posturing

30.05.2025 9

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Why is Scottish Labour giving Farage free publicity?

28.05.2025 10

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Scotland / The SNP is remembering its populist roots

06.05.2025 10

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The closure of Grangemouth’s refinery sums up Labour’s Net Zero muddle

29.04.2025 4

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Scotland / Reform and the SNP have much in common

23.04.2025 10

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The sorry fate of Nicola Sturgeon

21.03.2025 10

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Nicola Sturgeon’s dismal legacy

12.03.2025 6

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How independent are Britain’s nukes?

26.02.2025 9

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It’s time to reform the Gender Recognition Act

23.02.2025 6

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Elon is America’s Trotsky

16.02.2025 10

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Will the SNP come to its senses on North Sea oil?

17.01.2025 10

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My part in Twitter’s downfall

Two years ago, I was the victim of a peculiarly postmodern version of left-wing cancel culture. After joking on Twitter about the Tory government...

27.12.2024 10

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