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On Sunday evening we were graced with the Channel 4 Toryfest, in which five middle class Conservatives who are not going to become Prime Minister competed with one another to...

The National is reporting that the Scottish Conservatives are urging whoever becomes the next Tory PM to undermine the devolution settlement even further than this UK government has done already....

In this week’s edition of the dugcast, Callum Baird and I discuss the latest developments in the Tory leadership contest, Ruth Davidson’s gobsmacking hypocrisy, David Mundell’s squirming, the Tory attempt...

“You don’t get a referendum for free, you have to earn it. So if the Greens and the SNP – and the SSP or any other parties who’ve declared an...

In an interview today with Tory supporting LBC radio presenter Iain Dale, Esther McVey gave us all a masterclass in political idiocy. Railing against giving foreign aid, she spoke about...

The Tory leadership contest has, entirely predictably, become a reflexion of the Brexit process. It’s delusional. When the UK was given the six months extension to Article 50, the EU...

Watching discussions of Scottish politics on the telly is a bizarre experience these days. It’s not bizarre because of the contorted inanities which we’ve come to expect from a representative...

Tory logic and morality teaches us that you can’t admit to a history of drug use and be a teacher, but you can be Education Minister and aspire to become...

Writing about British politics these days has basically become an exercise in finding different ways to say how screwed we are. Well now we have a new baseline measurement. British...

It’s been a quiet week in the news, since there are no new updates about the bins in Barlanark. So instead The National’s editor Callum Baird and I discuss the...