Month: December 2019

This General Election is to Democracy what magic is to the entertainment industry. So let’s talk about something a little more real – like ‘inclusivity’ as proclaimed in Scottish Government ...

It's the afternoon after the late night before and Lesley and I try to make sense of the results of the General Election. Lesley,unashamedly, starts by looking at the tremendous ...

Do you have a pro-European voter in your life who lives in either a Scottish Tory seat or a Scottish Tory target seat?  Are they not especially party political but ...

I know people in Scotland are on my side. But if I'm not allowed to live here anymore, not allowed to access the NHS anymore, not allowed to work or ...

By Russell Bruce Today Scotland must look to a positive future outside the narrow xenophobic politics of a Conservative party that bears no relationship to any previous Conservative administration. Scotland ...

So a few miscellaneous things.  I have an article in The National about what the polls got right and wrong in Scotland over the last few weeks.  You can read ...

Executives of a US arms firm which makes smart bombs in Fife could face investigation for potentially aiding and abetting alleged war crimes in Yemen by a military coalition led ...

There’s a wooden fence. It’s painted red white and blue, but underneath that coat of paint the fence is rotten, worm eaten, fragile. It’s only the paint that holds it ...

Polling day has arrived for the 2019 general election, but misinformation has not stopped online. The day of the election is often a breeding ground for false claims and conspiracy ...

There are lots of things you can do.  You can scheme your schemes and dream your dreams of personal political advancement.  You can resort to sophistry about how the Holyrood ...