Month: February 2019

There's only one place to begin this week and it's the, less than, surprise resignation of seven Labour MPs to form TIG-The Independent Group. Lesley and I try to get ...

The refusal by @scotgov to review the guidance is shocking because it isn't based on refuting or rejecting the findings of @WG_Scotland's Children's Rights Impact Assessment that the guidance breaches ...

By Russell Bruce Question time from Motherwell raised many questions about the programme format and production. There was an overwhelming aura of proBrexit bias from the audience. Looking back at ...

The Scottish income tax changes are once again the focus of political debate, as the government’s budget plans were voted through after an agreement with the Scottish Greens. Scotland introduced ...

No disrespect to Stephen Bush, but something he said in all apparent seriousness in the New Statesman today made me laugh out loud.  He suggested that the big target for ...

Scottish social media is yet again working itself up into a lather over sectarianism at a fitba match. The Kilmarnock manager Steve Clarke was subjected to a torrent of sectarian ...

One thing that baffles me about this wave of Labour and Tory defections to the new Independent Group is that we're in a hung parliament situation, and yet journalists seem ...

The new YouGov poll testing potential support for the Independent Group was mentioned on the previous thread, because unlike the recent Survation poll it shows Labour taking a substantial hit, ...

Well if you were counting on the Labour party to save us all from a Tory Brexit, think again. Jeremy Corbyn has written to Theresa May to lay out his ...

Animal welfare groups and the Scottish Greens have criticised the Scottish Government for giving a £715,000 subsidy to one of Scotland’s largest egg producers with tens of thousands of caged ...