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Mark McgeogheganHerald Scotland |
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, a...
Whatever you do, don’t call it a “reset”. Yesterday, Sir Keir Starmer set out six milestones which he has committed his government to achieve by...
Reform UK is on the march. Having won 14.3% of the popular vote and five MPs in the July General Election, it is now polling as high as 21% in...
Next Friday, Members of Parliament will vote on Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would legalise assisted dying for...
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 own...
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 the...
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 about...
Mob violence has many fathers. It is a complex and often confusing phenomenon, both organised and disorganised, both intentional and unthinking. The...
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. Those...
Sir Keir Starmer’s inbox is packed to bursting point, and that was reflected in this week’s King’s Speech. From overhauling the planning system...
Losing elections is not a particularly fun activity. I remember pounding the pavement in pouring rain in the newly created Scottish Parliament...
Yesterday was the first election in my life that I went into the polling station entirely unsure of who I was going to vote for. Since 2010, I’ve...
The 2026 Scottish Parliament elections began to peek over the political horizon last week as the parties launched their Scottish manifestos. Each was...
With just under two weeks to go, we are on course for a ground-shaking general election result. Labour are set to win the popular vote by around 20...
The response across European political and media classes when French President, Emmanuel Macron announced the dissolution of the French Parliament to...
We’re just over two weeks into the election campaign, with a third of the campaigning done, and it looks even more likely now that Labour will pull...
A spectre is haunting Scottish politics – the spectre of secessionism. This election is not about Scottish independence, and the issue is nowhere...
In six weeks, we will have an incoming Labour government at Westminster. Labour will pour cold water on that sentiment. The Conservatives will big up...
When attempting to secede from a state, as the Scottish independence movement seeks to do, or to defeat a secessionist movement, as the UK’s...
For a decade, or what feels like an eternity, the central organising principle of Scottish electoral politics has been the constitutional question....
When the focus of Scottish politics shifted to Liam McArthur’s Member’s Bill proposing to legalise assisted dying, my heart sank a little, weighed...
At the party's National Campaign Council over the weekend, the SNP leadership laid out their messaging focus for the coming General Election. The...
In the months after the 2014 independence referendum, despite having lost by a double-digit margin and despite the resignation of the totemic Alex...
When Scottish Labour politicians and activists gathered at their annual conference a year ago, it was with a newfound optimism, despite doing so under...
The Prime Minister’s jibe about Sir Keir Starmer not being able to define what a woman is at Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions should have...
A crisis of legitimacy looms over the British political landscape. Confidence in our governing institutions is under severe stress. Living standards...
In the wake of the SNP’s annus horribilis, from the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon and the bitterness of the ensuing leadership contest to the...
A year ago, I argued that if the SNP wanted independence to become a realistic prospect in the coming years, 2023 would have to be the year that the...
Scotland’s relations with the myriad forms of political communities that have made up the world beyond our borders have existed as long as Scotland...
It is May 9th 2026 – a Saturday, late in the afternoon. Scotland’s political correspondents gather in stately gardens, sitting before a podium as...
Few sounds are more terrifying than the hum of a squadron of B-52 Stratofortresses. It begins low, distant, as the roughly 80-ton aircraft come into...