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The world has changed, as the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, reminded us on Wednesday. Who could disagree with her? The new Trump administration has...
Combating the rise of illiberal democracy and new authoritarianism that characterise countries like Russia and Hungary, and increasingly the United...
A legitimacy crisis loomed over British politics as we approached the general election in July last year. Research by King’s College London had...
The scramble among European leaders to respond to US President Donald Trump’s dramatic shift in policy towards Ukraine and Russia has been matched...
The question of what it means to be an independent country has been a fraught one for a long time, not just for the Scottish independence movement but...
In the wake of Labour’s election defeat in 2010 and Ed Miliband’s victory over his brother in the subsequent leadership contest, political...
How can Labour fight off the threat of Reform UK? That question is becoming increasingly pressing for Sir Keir Starmer’s party as polling shows...
Two years ago, I was eating breakfast in my flat in Maryhill, stressed about a presentation I was due to give that morning to dozens of staff at the...
Take a stroll down Kinross High Street on a Friday or Saturday night, as I often do walking the dog, and you’ll observe a carousel of cars stopping...
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...
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,...
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...
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. I...
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 ratings...
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...