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There are very good reasons for the action raised in the Court of Session by Alex Salmond to continue and I hope reports that some public-spirited...
Throughout the ferries debacle which has consumed so many millions of pounds, not to mention column inches, there appeared to be one small light at...
The Scottish Budget statement is a tired ritual and there wasn’t a lot to keep us awake yesterday. “More of the same” would be the most...
The figures are startling. While unemployment stands at almost 1.5 million, the number classified as “economically inactive” has soared to 9.4...
First, the ferry sad news. With a blast on the horn, the MV Hebridean Isles sailed out of Stornoway for the last time, bound for the Clyde and a...
The SNP’s list of Holyrood candidates has potential as a warm-up act for the Glasgow Comedy Festival at which Nicola Sturgeon is already billed as...
Whatever else has happened since the General Election, there is one manifesto commitment being pursued with relentless vigour. The drive towards...
For the first Labour budget in 14 years, this was pretty good and I don’t even feel it necessary to add the caveat “in the circumstances”. It...
It would be pleasing to report that National Geographic’s designation of the Outer Hebrides as a “Best in the World” destination for 2025 was...
Quangos are the hidden hands of government in Scotland; agencies which nobody voted for but hold far more power than is healthy, much of it leeched...
Sometimes, anniversaries remind us of how much has changed. Other times, they serve notice of how little has changed. The current flurry of interest...
Prejudice against Gaelic can be relied on to make occasional appearances in unexpected places. Who would have thought that an intelligent man like...
The Crown Estate has always been a curious beast with extraordinary powers which I have been tracking on and off for over 40 years. At that time it...
So what did you do on the day of the referendum, daddy? Well, actually, I spent it rather pleasantly in Salzburg, listening for the sound of music and...
There is a thin line between political courage and masochism. The former involves having the honesty to tell it like it is, even if it is not what the...
When political incompetence and fiscal incontinence collide, you end up with Shona Robison’s statement to Holyrood: a miserable patchwork of...
It might go down in political folklore as Bleak Tuesday. In the Downing Street rose garden, Keir Starmer spread petals of calculated gloom. Closer to...
It is always reassuring to be attacked by the Daily Telegraph, which rarely disappoints as a parody of itself. “Labour plans to make Britain even...
I occasionally look at the Scottish Government Appointments web-page, to see which trusties of the quango circuit have been leveraged into another...
It was quite uplifting that in his moment of Olympic glory, Duncan Scott found time to stress the importance of maintaining public swimming pools so...
There were not a lot of laughs in Rachel Reeves’ statement to the House of Commons. On top of what was known about the state of the economy, she...
Followers of the beautiful game may discern that my primary reason for being in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is not to take the pulse of the American...
It is always mildly amusing to speculate upon which parts of the speech the monarch is obliged to read out are delivered through gritted teeth. VAT on...
The defining characteristic of the SNP’s General Election campaign was its stupidity. Betting the house on a claim nobody believed – that electing...
Around the land, candidates of all political hues are stepping forth this morning with hope in their hearts, whether of hanging on, securing a...
Alister Jack’s stumble onto centre stage in the great betting scandal is the stuff of comedy. By common consent, Mr Jack only finds himself in the...
There are not many numbers I could quote from distant days in government but one has stuck in my mind because I was quite proud of it: £41...
Eighteen short months ago, the SNP was confident of what the 2024 General Election would be about. It was to be a “de facto referendum on...
“Cutting through” is one of these annoying clichés beloved of self-important young things as they bustle from one important meeting to the next...
The appearance of the Cabinet Secretary for lots of things, Mairi McAllan before Holyrood’s Net Zero Committee, bordered on the comedic. Weaned on...
I am all in favour of those responsible for the great ferry shambles being held to account and equally clear that Transport Scotland (i.e. the...
John Swinney’s first week in office as First Minister reminded me of the great little poem by Hughes Mearns, The Man Who Wasn’t There, as queues...
I am an advanced devolutionist. Decisions affecting people and communities are best made at the level where they are most effective and those...
I caught the Highland news on radio the other morning. The lead story was about another fatal crash on the A9 at a point which all of us who know that...
Out of their traps they came to assure Scotland that John Swinney really is the man for the moment. In every available studio, the clichés flowed...
“We have achieved more for people and planet in the past 32 months than other parties have in decades”, proclaimed Lorna Slater, co-leader of the...
One does not wish to be a party-pooper but the “saving” of Aye Write strikes me as being as unconvincing as its original cancellation was...
There is, as I write from my Hebridean fastness, a howling gale outside. I feel sympathy for the little lambs on the crofts contending with such...
It would be a well-informed assumption that Robbie Drummond was made to walk the plank at Caledonian MacBrayne on orders from Edinburgh in advance of...
One good thing about the removal of David Tydeman as chief executive of the Ferguson shipyard at Port Glasgow is that it sets a precedent. Finally, it...
Humza Yousaf’s call for Tories to be “wiped off the electoral map of Scotland” is not as bad as it sounds. It’s worse and needs to be called...
Budgets used to be big deals; landmarks in the political calendar, full of closely guarded secrets. It was difficult to see any of that in Jeremy...
I don’t suppose my endorsement will do him much good in the Caledonian Court of Star Chamber, but Fergus Ewing should take comfort from the fact...
The allegation that the Post Office was pressured by civil servants to delay compensation payments arising from the Horizon scandal carries the ring...
It is politically prudent to assume that bad ideas do not go away, particularly when they originate in civil service minds of a certain disposition....
I’m still not quite sure why a Scotland Office (ie, UK Government) minister was convening a round table this week on the woes afflicting Caledonian...
I’m still not quite sure why a Scotland Office (ie, UK Government) minister was convening a round table this week on the woes afflicting Caledonian...
I recently chanced upon the revelation that the Scottish Government is preparing a “Depopulation Action Plan”. Ye gods, I thought. Not another...
Public inquiries are strange creatures. It is easy to see why governments, particularly the one in Edinburgh, hate them and will do their best to...
What an insouciant portrait of the Scottish legal establishment was presented to us by the Lord Advocate, Dorothy Bain KC, in her statement to the...
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