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Classical references are the new big thing these days, what with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson name dropping Ancient Greeks and Romans at every opportunity in a vain attempt to...

A guest post by Mark Russell (You may have heard people mention “Modern Monetary Theory”, but like me you may not have known what it is. So I asked someone...

It’s the last edition of the dugcast before the holidays, and the last of 2019. In this episode, the National’s multimedia journalist Craig Cairns and I discuss the response of...

Can you hear that sound? It’s the sound of ferrets reversing. It’s the sound that Andrew Bowie makes when he hails the mandate won by Boris Johnson for Brexit while...

Today, Thursday, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called upon the British Government to devolve the powers to hold a legally watertight independence referendum to the Scottish Parliament. There has been,...

A guest post by Ally Farquhar Oh well, that didnae take long did it? Dick Leonard decided to sleep on the combined clusterbollox which was Labour’s branch and head office...

a guest post by John Fitzpatrick There was a time when the idea of the SNP winning so many seats in Westminster would have galvanized me but the prospect this...

Ever since the election results were announced early on Friday morning, Scottish social media has been full of people announcing that they opposed another independence referendum but given that the...

A constitutional crisis is approaching. Yes, another one. These days they come along more frequently than Wullie Rennie’s number 17 bus from Cowdenbeath to Kelty. Despite the fact that Scotland...

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...