The Presiding Officer has finally reluctantly deigned to allow the Scottish Parliament to discuss the issues arising from ...

Some of our more alert readers may recall the events of four years ago this month, when a mob of SNP representatives all ...

What with this poll apparently being such terrific news for John Swinney’s runaway popularity with the people of Scotland, ...

We don’t need a cartoonist today. How could he be funnier than this? Please let us one day discover who the wailing colleague was.

In April 2021, the SNP were still the undisputed masters of all they surveyed. A poll conducted by Ipsos MORI that month showed them on 53% of the vote for the Scottish Parliament, a jawdropping 33 ...

It’s one of the most profoundly disappointing things about the last decade of Scottish politics that for about five minutes in 2015 we all thought that this awful dunderheaded foghorn was a bright new ...

The Presiding Officer has finally reluctantly deigned to allow the Scottish Parliament to discuss the issues arising from Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife, in the shape of a debate taking place in the ...

Much of Scotland, and indeed the rest of the UK and beyond (the story below ran in the London Standard), has been grimly gripped this week by the ongoing and scarcely believable trainwreck that is ...

In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that the very concept of democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably ...