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A rare joy of First Minister’s Questions is spotting the Toady of the Week, the Nationalist backbencher who bids to ingratiate themselves by asking Nicola Sturgeon the softest question. It’s a balancing act and all too easy to trip over your forelock as you tug it. Sometimes it’s James Dornan, the Glasgow Grunter, who confrontsContinueContinue reading “Nicola Sturgeon takes Brexit myth out for a spin”

Let’s not talk about politics this week. At least not the rows and resentments at Holyrood; the ghastly business will still be there a week from now. Let’s talk about something more precious, far more difficult to negotiate. Let’s talk about love. No politics, however lofty, can match the idealism of love, especially the loveContinueContinue reading “Anas Sarwar may be a bad socialist but he’s trying to be a good father”

‘As the Fuuurst Minnnnnister would expeccccct, I dispute the figurrrrrres for who cooooommitted to what buhhht the issue is…’ It was Alex Rowley’s debut at First Minister’s Questions. He is standing in as Labour leader while they find their seventh leader in a decade. No wonder they want to ban zero-hours contracts; it’s the onlyContinueContinue reading “Alex Rowley doesn’t end sentences, he lays them to rest”

Ever had the feeling that you’ve been somewhere before? That notion that what you are seeing or hearing is elusively familiar? Call it deja vu or groundhog day, the effect can be disorienting and so it was yesterday at Holyrood when Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her Programme for Government.  This was the First Minister’s keenly-anticipated, game-changingContinueContinue reading “A weary list of recycled pledges… no wonder the Greens love the SNP”

They both went to private school but were drawn to Left-wing politics. Now, Anas Sarwar and Richard Leonard are in a battle for the leadership of Scottish Labour following the shock resignation of Kezia Dugdale. Here, STEPHEN DAISLEY examines what the two pretenders to the throne believe and asks what do they offer their partyContinueContinue reading “Who are the contenders to lead Scottish Labour?”

It might have escaped your attention but we appointed a new ambassador to the United States last week.  Fans of the incumbent Sir Kim Darroch needn’t fear; he remains in post. By ‘we’ I mean Scotland. Joni Smith was announced as the Scottish Affairs Counsellor to North America at the same time as Martin McDermottContinueContinue reading “SNP foreign forays are about selling independence, not Irn-Bru to Indians”

Not many party leaders launch their political career on a sofa in front of daytime TV but that is where it all began for Kezia Dugdale. The Aberdeen University graduate was 23, unemployed and bingeing on trashy talk shows in her Edinburgh flat when her roommate came out with a curious suggestion — Dugdale shouldContinueContinue reading “Pain, loss, and the miserably high price of seizing Scottish Labour’s poison chalice”

‘When the facts change, I change my mind,’ said the economist John Maynard Keynes. When the facts change, the Scottish Government changes the facts.  This secretive, control-crazed administration has been caught changing the facts again. This time their blue pencil set to work on an Audit Scotland report into colleges, a sector which has sufferedContinueContinue reading “Control-freak SNP and its vast army of spin doctors see facts as the enemy”

Jeremy Corbyn might be a saviour of the Union. Alternatively, he might help bury it. So tumultuous is our political life these days that it’s impossible to predict which course events will take.  It’s like those childhood favourites, the Choose Your Own Adventure books, that allowed junior readers to change the plot at key momentsContinueContinue reading “Corbyn wiped the smirk off SNP faces. Will he do the same to the Unionists?”

In fractious times, Ruth Davidson is the great Tory unifier. Brexiteers love her, Remainers adore her. Left and right, young and old, urban and rural, there is no faction that does not sing her praises. Her public utterances on everything from social justice to immigration lead the BBC news bulletins. Serious people speak seriously aboutContinueContinue reading “Forget No.10, Ruth is aiming for Bute House”