The closure of Grangemouth’s refinery sums up Labour’s Net Zero muddle
Another grim milestone in Britain’s elective deindustrialisation was reached today: Scotland’s only remaining petrochemical plant, Grangemouth in Fife, ceased refining…
Reform and the SNP have much in common
“Storm clouds are gathering. We can all see them.” No, not Winston Churchill on the rise of the Nazis in…
The sorry fate of Nicola Sturgeon
The first thing to say is that Nicola Sturgeon has been cleared in an investigation into the SNP’s funding and…
Nicola Sturgeon’s dismal legacy
The departure of the former Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, from active politics draws a line under the Scottish National…
How independent are Britain’s nukes?
Keir Starmer has sought to get into Donald Trump’s good books by boosting defence expenditure – and doing it in…
It’s time to reform the Gender Recognition Act
What were they thinking? When Tony Blair agreed, in 2004, to legislation allowing transsexuals – as they were then called…
Elon is America’s Trotsky
I never imagined that I would see a real revolution, at least not in the West. Sure, when I was…
Will the SNP come to its senses on North Sea oil?
Drill, baby drill. The mood on Net Zero is changing in the Scottish parliament where a majority of MSPs have…
My part in Twitter’s downfall
Two years ago, I was the victim of a peculiarly postmodern version of left-wing cancel culture. After joking on Twitter…
NHS Scotland can’t go on like this
Another Scottish budget and another dire warning from the spending watchdog, Audit Scotland, that the National Health Service in Scotland…
We don’t need the Supreme Court to define a ‘woman’
In a scenario straight out of Monty Python, learned judges in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will today start…
Closing the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil fields is a net zero own goal
Environmental campaigners are hoping to announce at Cop29 that they’ve halted two major oil and gas fields in the North…
What’s John Swinney got against two-spirit Scots?
You may have thought that the Scottish government had abandoned gender metaphysics after the collapse of the ‘Gender Recognition Reform…
Scottish visas are a terrible idea
The last thing Labour needs right now, after the last hundred days of scandal and mishap, is a row over…
Alex Salmond was an unstoppable force of nature
It is hard to believe that I will no longer wake up on Monday mornings to the sound of Alex…
The SNP fraud probe has gone on too long
So here’s a thing. Last week a prominent defence lawyer broke ranks and declared that the police investigation into alleged…
It’s a tough time to be Scottish
Hard-working Scots could be forgiven for resorting to a stiff drink tonight as they contemplate an extraordinary triple attack on…
How the SNP damaged the independence cause
If you really want to annoy a Scottish nationalist, tell them the 2014 Scottish independence referendum had a lot in…
Why the SNP keeps failing in its war on child poverty
The poor are always with us, Jesus said, and that has never been more true than in Scotland over the…
John Swinney is leading the SNP to oblivion
As the SNP gathers for its conference in Edinburgh this weekend, its membership nearly halved from a peak of 125,691,…
Drug deaths rise again under the SNP
Scotland’s drug misuse deaths – the worst in Europe – have long been a stain on the Scottish government’s record.…
The Senedd, like Holyrood, has failed its people
There are disturbing parallels between the meltdown of the Labour administration in Wales and the recent chaos of the SNP…
The game is up for the SNP
Every election is historic in its own way, and of course the top line this 2024 general election is Labour’s…
Scottish independence could be the biggest loser on election day
As the hours tick down to polling day, Scottish nationalists are beginning to assess the damage this election campaign has…
Scotland’s women face a choice on self-ID in this election
Women in Scotland have a difficult choice to make in this election. Those whoomen, that is, who are concerned about…
