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Mark McgeogheganHerald Scotland |
The SNP’s start to 2025 has been rather buoyed by recent polling suggesting that it has opened a significant lead over Labour on both Holyrood...
In the last two decades, Big Tech companies have become an increasingly central component of American global power, and geopolitical players in their...
If you came into 2025 hoping for a return to politics as normal, whatever that means, you’ll have been sorely disappointed by this week at...
After years of SNP decline following Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation, the escalation of Operation Branchform, and a disastrous stint as First...
Private money corrupts the political classes and distorts the democratic process. There’s no simpler, clearer, or more accurate description for...
The world is becoming more unstable and dangerous, and politics is increasingly conducted not through peaceful means but through violence. One only...
The SNP could scarcely have hoped for a more positive poll in the wake of John Swinney’s first budget as First Minister. Mr Swinney is, of course,...
Next Friday, Members of Parliament will vote on Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would legalise assisted dying...
Following the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election in late 2023, I was asked to speak to SNP MPs and staffers at Westminster about the Scottish...
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. That phrase encapsulates the global economy’s interdependence and the centrality of the United...
In four days, Americans will go to the polls with Donald Trump as a presidential candidate for the third time. In the nine years since he came down...
What do Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Lynton Crosby, Jim Messina, and David Axelrod have in common? They have all campaigned in elections outwith their...
Alex Salmond was a singular political talent and one of the privileged few politicians who utterly and irreversibly reshaped their nation’s...
This weekend will mark the end of Sir Keir Starmer’s first 100 days in Downing Street and the new Labour UK Government’s first 100 days in power....
Next week will mark the end of Labour’s first 100 days in power, and the honeymoon is over, if it ever began. The Prime Minister’s personal...
Scotland is heading for one of our most fractured and potentially fractious, Parliaments in the devolution era come May 2026. The SNP's defeat at...
I’m struck by how retrospective and negative the thoughts of pro-independence politicians and activists have been, as we conclude a week of...
As we are told by the Scottish Government, Scotland is facing its most significant fiscal challenge since the Scottish Parliament was convened in...
The SNP faithful gather in Edinburgh today to kick off their first post-defeat party conference in over a decade. It will open with an internal...
Few Western governments have avoided a row over their response to events in Israel and Gaza since Hamas' butchering of around 1,200 Israelis on...
The riots that plagued England and Northern Ireland had barely begun before the war of words over their nature, causes, and what should be done...
Mob violence has many fathers. It is a complex and often confusing phenomenon, both organised and disorganised, both intentional and unthinking....
Are you, dear reader, coconut-pilled? Do you exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you? Are you, as the presumptive...
In the wake of their defeat at the hands of Labour earlier this month many parts of the SNP turned to internal recriminations and blame games....
Losing elections is not a particularly fun activity. I remember pounding the pavement in pouring rain in the newly created Scottish Parliament...