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May 20, 2022
Let’s look back at her tortuous tenure as she prepares to overtake Alex Salmond as the longest-serving First Minister
April 15, 2022
A focus on local priorities and national assets should be a vote-winner, but the Prime Minister has put his peers in an unenviable position
February 25, 2022
Plus: A withering denunciation of the poster-boy of nationalism that was met with cheers in the Commons
December 20, 2021
THERE was consternation at the North Pole: Santa had tested positive and would have to self-isolate. Suddenly it looked as if there would be no…
December 20, 2021
THERE was consternation at the North Pole: Santa had tested positive and would have to self-isolate. Suddenly it looked as if there would be no…
May 5, 2021
Comment Why couldn’t we have cross-party Unionist unity at the start of the campaign, instead of the very end? A combination of the SNP, the Greens, and possibly Alex Salmond himself running Scotland is a truly appalling prospect 5 May 2021 • 7:04pm Alba Party leader Alex Salmond during a visit to the Scotsman Lounge in Edinburgh, on the eve of the Scottish Parliamentary Election on May 6 Credit: Jane Barlow/PA Wire There’s not a great deal of mystery about Thursdays Scottish election. Al...
April 15, 2021
SNP have turned manifesto failures into an art form – and, of course, their solution is independence As Sturgeon repeated her plan to hold a referendum before June 2023, the issues voters really care about were swept quickly to one side Nicola Sturgeon launches the SNPs election manifesto in Glasgow Credit: AFP There’s not really much point in poring over election manifestos, unless you’re an ‘anorak’ like this one or an avid collector of broken promises. Still, the SNP versions of th...
April 1, 2021
Alex Salmond has launched a new pro-independence party Credit: PA You’ve got to hand it to Alex Salmond; whatever his shortcomings, and he has many, he’s never short of a ringing phrase. On the Today Programme on Thursday he said he had charged his 32-strong army of Alba footsoldiers to ‘advance the most noble cause of all … Scottish independence’. Leaving aside his love of hyperbole, I can’t believe that most electors haven’t already concluded that there’s nothing in any way n...