It’s worth remembering that they didn’t have to do this. Labour had already announced their intention to abstain. There was no danger of the budget being defeated. So the SNP could ...

We’re stuck indoors waiting for a repairman today, so we had a little read-around of some of the less popular Scottish ...

Way back in the day, the Lib Dems in particular, but also other parties and the “Better Together” campaign, were infamous for ...

People sometimes ask us if we get bored of being right all the time. But in truth, we just wish we had to work a bit harder at it.

Robin McAlpine published a very important piece yesterday, detailing how the SNP is about to become even more of a leadership dictatorship than it already is. You can read the article to see why ...

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 ...

The wild thing about this poll isn’t the headline that six months after winning a massive landslide majority, Keir Starmer now trails Nigel Farage – leader of a party with five MPs to Starmer’s 411 – ...

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Don’t watch this. You’ll only waste 12 minutes of your life making yourself angry. It’s our job to be angry for you. Quite aside from anything else, the title is a barefaced lie. There is nothing ...

Any rational assessment of Scottish (or indeed UK or world) politics at the moment tends to be negative and depressing, so since it’s a new year we thought we’d make an extra-special effort at writing ...