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Apologies for the uncharacteristically negative headline, but I couldn't resist. It was perhaps inevitable that with five Scottish by-elections taking place in the space of a week, one would prove...

A formal complaint has been sent to the Conservative Party over its rebranding of an official Twitter account as an independent fact checking service during a TV debate between Boris...

The power company, EDF Energy, has come under fire for advising that the emergency zone to protect people around its cracked nuclear reactors at Hunterston could be shrunk to a...

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm waiting with bated breath for the first polls with post-Tuesday fieldwork to see if the rigged ITV debate has had any impact...

So a few miscellaneous things.  Firstly, I have two new constituency previews in The National, this time about constituencies either wholly or partly in West Lothian - Livingston and Linlithgow...

Rahma’s mother didn’t want her daughter to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), a procedure that involves cutting or removing a girl’s labia and clitoris. But when Rahma’s aunt discovered the...

Jo Swinson boasts that she would be willing to murder millions of innocent civilians by using a nuclear weapon, and the ITV interviewer applauds her for a "brilliant answer". The...

Sergiy Parhomenko stood on Independence Square, aka ‘The Maidan’, on a cold and foggy autumnal afternoon in Kiev. Hotel Ukraine, a fifteen-story high Stalinist skyscraper, peered down from the back...

Two minutes in, and Johnson has already mentioned Sturgeon by name and attacked an SNP policy. How the hell can ITV justify locking Nicola Sturgeon out of the room on...

It's truly astonishing - we're three weeks into this campaign and we still haven't had a full-scale Scottish poll (apart from an out-of-date one from YouGov).  Until that changes, I'm...