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John FerryThe Spectator |
You wait eight-and-a-half years for someone to lose their job over the SNP’s ferries fiasco, then two sackings come at once. So which Scottish...
He’s only gone and done it again. Mark Blyth, born in Dundee but now professor of international economics at the prestigious Brown University in the...
Try to start a speech with a joke to warm up your audience. That’s always good advice. And so Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf,...
If you thought senior Conservatives giving evidence to the UK Covid inquiry in London was rough then you should watch the footage now emerging from...
There is an ongoing savage war and humanitarian catastrophe taking place in Gaza. Fighting between Russia and Ukraine, the largest armed conflict in...
Much of the speculation in the build-up to the Scottish budget yesterday focused on the possibility of the introduction of yet another new income tax...
Scotland’s health secretary Michael Matheson is still in post. I repeat, Scotland’s health secretary Michael Matheson is still in post. This is...
There have been extraordinary goings on at Holyrood this week – and I don’t mean more iPad-on-holiday revelations or sleazy claims two SNP...
The SNP Scottish government has brought out its latest fantasy paper on secession. Never mind the party’s nosediving popularity that could see the...
Amidst the horrors of recent weeks, it has at least been reassuring to know there is a sensible moderate in the White House. US President Joe Biden...
Picture the scene around a year from now. We’ve just had a general election. The SNP has gone from 48 MPs in 2019 to, say, 30. Scotland’s First...
‘I will lead by example in adhering to this Code and knowing it is an incredible privilege to serve the people of Scotland. I know that Ministers...
Humza Yousaf started this month trying to recapture the spirit of 2014 by leading a Saltire-festooned march for independence in Edinburgh. The...