What is the point of Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir?
Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, finally published today, is already looking like the most ill-advised autobiography since Prince Harry’s Spare. Her…
Why is Nicola Sturgeon fighting the ghost of Alex Salmond?
What was Nicola Sturgeon thinking, reopening the war with Alex Salmond, her former mentor, who died last year, in her…
Kate Forbes’s exit is proof the SNP has lost its way
In little over a week, the Scottish National Party (SNP) has lost two of its greatest political stars. Mhairi Black,…
Scotland bends the knee to Trump
Donald Trump touches down in Scotland today on what is ostensibly a private visit to open an 18-hole golf course…
Scotland’s ‘Stop Trump’ movement is not what it was
Donald Trump touches down in Scotland today on what is ostensibly a private visit to open an 18-hole golf course…
The ridiculous fantasy of a Scottish universal basic income
One of the first casualties of the Covid pandemic was the millennial left’s defining project of a Universal Basic Income.…
Scotland’s Ecocide Bill is pure moral posturing
Here we go again. The Scottish parliament risks embarking on yet another exercise in legislative virtue signalling: the Labour MSP…
Why is Scottish Labour giving Farage free publicity?
If the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is sincere in wishing to deprive Nigel Farage of the ‘oxygen of publicity’,…
The closure of Grangemouth’s refinery sums up Labour’s Net Zero muddle
Another grim milestone in Britain’s elective deindustrialisation was reached today: Scotland’s only remaining petrochemical plant, Grangemouth in Fife, ceased refining…
Reform and the SNP have much in common
“Storm clouds are gathering. We can all see them.” No, not Winston Churchill on the rise of the Nazis in…
The sorry fate of Nicola Sturgeon
The first thing to say is that Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in an investigation into the SNP’s funding and…
Nicola Sturgeon’s dismal legacy
The departure of the former Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, from active politics draws a line under the Scottish National…
How independent are Britain’s nukes?
Keir Starmer has sought to get into Donald Trump’s good books by boosting defence expenditure – and doing it in…
It’s time to reform the Gender Recognition Act
What were they thinking? When Tony Blair agreed, in 2004, to legislation allowing transsexuals – as they were then called…
Elon is America’s Trotsky
I never imagined that I would see a real revolution, at least not in the West. Sure, when I was…
Will the SNP come to its senses on North Sea oil?
Drill, baby drill. The mood on Net Zero is changing in the Scottish parliament where a majority of MSPs have…
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…
NHS Scotland can’t go on like this
Another Scottish budget and another dire warning from the spending watchdog, Audit Scotland, that the National Health Service in Scotland…
We don’t need the Supreme Court to define a ‘woman’
In a scenario straight out of Monty Python, learned judges in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will today start…
Closing the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields is a net zero own goal
Environmental campaigners are hoping to announce at Cop29 that they’ve halted two major oil and gas fields in the North…
What’s John Swinney got against two-spirit Scots?
You may have thought that the Scottish government had abandoned gender metaphysics after the collapse of the ‘Gender Recognition Reform…
Scottish visas are a terrible idea
The last thing Labour needs right now, after the last hundred days of scandal and mishap, is a row over…
Alex Salmond was an unstoppable force of nature
It is hard to believe that I will no longer wake up on Monday mornings to the sound of Alex…
The SNP fraud probe has gone on too long
So here’s a thing. Last week a prominent defence lawyer broke ranks and declared that the police investigation into alleged…
It’s a tough time to be Scottish
Hard-working Scots could be forgiven for resorting to a stiff drink tonight as they contemplate an extraordinary triple attack on…
