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Be in no doubt, May’s Holyrood vote is the independence election. It’s not just that, of course. It is also about trust in government...

WITH typical shameless hypocrisy, Tory leaders in Scotland have recently condemned mention of Scottish independence during our pandemic times. They have also alleged a lack of transparency both in the provision of Covid response data and in the current Salmond inquiries. Meanwhile, the Tory Gang of Three (Baroness Davidson, Alister Jack and Douglas Ross) have been working under the shadows of the pandemic to undermine the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government. Tory work is under way for their Edinburgh hub to manage the £1 billion Scottish component of EU structural funds coming ba...

THE Scottish Tories have come under fire for saying the Scottish Government have reached "an all time petty low" in a tweet about the Covid vaccine. The tweet, from the official Scottish Government account, referred to the "Astrazeneca vaccine", but numerous Scottish Tories claimed it should be referred to as the "Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine". Maurice Golden claimed Nicola Sturgeon's Government is promoting a "nationalist" agenda. He tweeted: "The rest of the world knows it as the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine. But Scottish nationalism won’t allow anything positive to be accredited to ...

I WAS curious to read the moderate view of the former SNP “spin doctor”, Kevin Pringle, in rejecting the short time frame for a referendum to be conducted next year – the first year of the newly elected Scottish Government, no doubt it will be an SNP one (Indyref will not happen in 2021, says former SNP spin doctor, December 28)! Mr Pringle opines that indyref2 is a matter for the medium term of the Scottish Parliament and not the short term of 2021. I wish to challenge that assertion by reminding him that there will likely be a transition period of preparation from the point when a...

Updated Robert Jenrick insisted the 'amount of money we spend on political advisers is very small by international standards' A TORY minister has defended the UK Government’s decision to give Dominic Cummings a £40,000 pay rise this year. Cummings, the Prime Minister’s most senior adviser, left Downing Street last month to work from home until mid-December following a power struggle in Number 10. A report released yesterday showed the adviser was paid between £140,000 and £144,999 this year – a jump in salary as high as 51% as last year he was earning between £95,000 and £99,...