Iain MacWhirter

Humza Yousaf’s first 100 days

7 July 2023 4:00 pm

Today marks Humza Yousaf’s 100 days as First Minister, yet not even that has gone right: the nationalist leader has…

Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest was inevitable

12 June 2023 1:37 am

There was an air of inevitability about the arrest today of Nicola Sturgeon. The SNP had been braced for it.…

Scotland awaits the fate of the Third Woman

23 April 2023 9:14 pm

Scottish politics has never been more febrile. If we go a day without an arrest, a resignation, a revelation about…

Humza Yousaf won’t be celebrating for long

28 March 2023 2:47 am

Humza Yousaf has a reputation for being a bit of a crowd-pleaser and, true to form, everyone seemed inordinately happy…

The Windsor Framework isn’t the blessing Scottish nationalists think it is

1 March 2023 5:39 am

Is the Windsor Framework a get-out-of-jail card for Scottish nationalists? The excitement expressed in SNP circles at Rishi Sunak’s Protocol…

The SNP leadership race has turned into the mother of all culture wars

22 February 2023 10:55 pm

Bring back Nicola Sturgeon. The race to replace her as SNP leader and first minister has turned into the mother…

Nicola Sturgeon is a hard act to follow

16 February 2023 12:47 am

Nicola Sturgeon insisted last month she had ‘plenty in the tank’, but apparently the First Minister was already running on…

Gender wars

18 January 2023 10:00 pm

When Rishi Sunak had dinner with Nicola Sturgeon last week, the idea was to show he was interested in a…

Why we should take the Twitter Files seriously

18 December 2022 2:21 am

‘Shadowbanning’, ‘visibility filtering’, ‘de-amplification’ – the Twitter Files released since Elon Musk took over have given us a new and sinister language…

Gordon Brown doesn’t understand what Scottish voters want

6 December 2022 7:10 pm

Only Gordon Brown could come up with a 40-point plan for constitutional renewal. ‘Less is more’ is not a principle…

Literal tyranny

5 November 2022 9:00 am

How a silly little bit of satire got me sacked