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We made it. Six weeks of these ghastly, preening, pontificating characters hectoring us every time we tune in for the weather forecast and finally the end is in sight. By ten o’clock tomorrow night, it’ll all be over and we can go back to getting our political debate from Gogglebox. The STV debate was brandedContinueContinue reading “Kezia took a round… right in the foot”

Even at times of panic and disaster, we cannot help but be British. Scenes of horror flooded our TVs this weekend but the clip that will stick with me is Richard Angell, a Labour campaigner who assured a BBC reporter: ‘If me having a gin & tonic with my friends, flirting with handsome men, hangingContinueContinue reading “In this fight, victory will come from our best weapons: British stoicism and decency”

Ruth Davidson is not an obvious choice to lead a revolution. But out there in the country, from the family farms of the Borders to the fishing enclaves of the North East, from central belt suburbs to the rolling hills of Perthshire, a rebellion is brewing — and Miss Davidson finds herself its de factoContinueContinue reading “Rebel with a cause”

It’s been a decade since the SNP faced any real opposition and it shines through in their manifesto. For the past ten years, the Nationalists have coasted, their gravity-defying poll numbers affording them the luxury of defining their opponents and steering clear of difficult decisions. Now Professor Newton has caught up with them and theyContinueContinue reading “Sorry, Comrade Sturgeon… but nobody’s buying this clap-trap”

If it wasn’t for their election blunders, the SNP would have no campaign at all. After an Edinburgh nurse grilled Nicola Sturgeon on live TV over the SNP’s one percent NHS pay cap, Nationalist frontbencher Joanna Cherry told the BBC the healthcare worker was the wife of a Tory councillor. Not that it should matterContinueContinue reading “The SNP is on the attack because it has nothing to defend”

What does Theresa May actually believe? It’s the question perplexing MPs, journalists, and those members of the public admirably slogging through this election, powered only by Nescafe and matches. The confusion is understandable; Mrs May’s record is inconsistent. She’s the moderniser who became an unabashedly authoritarian Home Secretary, the scolder of ‘the Nasty Party’ whoContinueContinue reading “Robert Peel gets a third term”

The Coatbridge of my childhood had four corners: The school, the church, the video store, and the public library. Today, only the church survives and the status of religion being what it is, I wonder for how much longer that will be. My school, St Ambrose High School, the educational pride of the Lanarkshire town,ContinueContinue reading “We cannot let this be the final chapter for libraries”

If the SNP was being marked on its handling of Scottish education over the last decade, it wouldn’t get an F — it would get expelled. Education was central to the Nationalist pitch in 2007, back when they still pretended to care about things other than BBC mind control and Union Jacks on punnets ofContinueContinue reading “Generation’s life chances sacrificed on the altar of independence”

Ferguslie Park has one claim to fame and one claim to infamy. The Paisley housing estate inspired the title of Stealers Wheel’s second album; Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, the folk-rock band’s founders, were born and raised in the town. Ferguslie Park is also the poorest place in Scotland. The Scottish Index of Multiple DeprivationContinueContinue reading “Stuck in the middle with Ruth”