Month: August 2019

It’s now clear what Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s game plane is. He’s written a letter to the EU demanding the removal of the Irish backstop but offering no solutions ...

The annual GERS figures are due out on Wednesday 21 August, but I am off to Dundee to speak at a Roadshow event for The National.  I published a version ...

One thing that has become clear in the discussions/arguments of recent days is that there is a real degree of paranoia among some independence supporters about how we ended up ...

The agency in charge of supplying products to the NHS in Scotland is preparing for “severe disruption” if the UK leaves the European Union (EU) without a deal. NHS National ...

We really can’t be bothered with having the GERS “debate” again, in which all the same people make all the same exactly opposite spins on the exact same data. Minor annual ...

So I've been asked by a few people to write a post about next week's parliamentary by-election in Shetland - a contest which has rather comically led the unionist parties ...

If you’re a writer for a living and you want to check if something you’ve written might be embarrassingly stupid, there’s an easy and quick technique you can use.By way of ...

The worsening crisis in Scottish Labour, now spreading across the whole UK party, has exposed a strain of anti-democratic thought on its rightwing LAST week CommonSpace revealed the extent of the ...

My #GERS article in today's @ScotNational.You have underestimated just how much Scotland needs more migrants. If the Tories really do reduce migration to the "tens of thousands", Scotland alone could ...

One Asda worker in Scotland told GMB that the new ‘flexible’ contract would make it impossible for her to meet home and work commitments Asda CEO Roger Burnley states in letter ...