Rest in peace, Shane Warne
Headingly, July 22nd 1993 and the opening day of the fourth test that summer between England and Australia. This, as…
Boris must go!
Conservative sympathisers, Conservative voters and Conservative parliamentarians have a simple choice to make this week. Do they stand by a…
Boris's dwindling bunch of supporters must now come clean
Oh for heaven’s sake, come off it. British politics has long had a comfortable relationship with the absurd but this…
Douglas Ross is right: Boris Johnson must go
In May 2020 Douglas Ross resigned from Boris Johnson’s government. Though only a junior minister in the Scotland Office –…
The unfathomable inadequacy of Boris Johnson
There is no room for wriggling here and not just because multiple witnesses put Boris Johnson and his wife at…
The joy of Boris’s bungled by-election
By any reasonable standard the result in the North Shropshire by-election must be reckoned the funniest in years. Perhaps even…
Boris Johnson is eating reality
It is neither fair nor correct to say it was obvious from the moment Boris Johnson became Prime Minister that…
Is this the beginning of the end for Nicola Sturgeon?
The SNP are holding their annual conference this weekend and, the times being what they are, it is a virtual…
Boris's rail betrayal is no surprise
A promise made is merely a promise waiting to be broken. If events complicate life for all governments it is…
Labour’s Scottish problem isn’t going away
Certain questions are eternal and many of them are correspondingly dreary too. ‘How should Labour deal with the SNP?’ and…
Is Boris brave enough to confront the truth about the NHS?
If a government does not wish to break a manifesto promise it should punt fewer such ‘promises’ into its manifesto.…
The 'mandate wars' won't be resolved anytime soon
So what does it all mean? The first thing to bear in mind is that more than one thing may…
Scottish nationalism is no better than any other kind
Even the Americans are noticing Nicola Sturgeon now and if you are – like many nationalists – the kind of…
Does anyone doubt Boris's leaked 'bodies' comment?
Of course Boris Johnson raged, King Lear-like, that he was prepared to ‘let the bodies pile high in their thousands’…
Alex Salmond is a gift to the Unionist cause
If Alex Salmond and his new Alba party did not exist, pro-Union parties would find it necessary to invent them.…
Salmond's comeback is a pitiful sight
When Alex Salmond lost his seat at the 2017 general election, he finished his concession speech with a quotation from…
Sturgeon's future now hangs in the balance
At First Minister’s Questions this afternoon Nicola Sturgeon accused Ruth Davidson of peddling baseless conspiracy theories, dredged up from ‘the bottom…
The Salmond case has left the House of Sturgeon teetering
Sturgeon is fighting for her political future
There is something rotten in Scottish politics
It is now two years since Nicola Sturgeon accepted the need for a parliamentary inquiry into how, and why, her…
The Sturgeon paradox: the worse she does, the more popular she becomes
Despite her record, nothing can stop Nicola Sturgeon
Macron isn’t Islamophobic
Sometimes a story does not receive the attention you think it should. Sometimes the news is too familiar or too…
Keir Starmer and the Scottish independence conundrum
In January, Sir Keir Starmer told Border Television’s Peter MacMahon that, look, of course an SNP victory in next year’s…
Sport, for the English, has always been a defiant assertion of liberty
The history of English sport reflects a defiant people determined to protect their ancient prerogatives, says Alex Massie
Here’s Nicola: can Boris Johnson stop Scottish independence?
How can Boris deal with the looming question of IndyRef2?
Can the new Scottish Tory leader thwart Nicola Sturgeon?
The new Scottish Tory leader – and his familiar sidekick
