While we were busy with a visit from my husband’s family from the United States, the SNP party conference was taking place in Aberdeen. The party came out of the conference united behind the First Minister’s plan for independence and irrespective of the merits or demerits of the plan, it cannot…

It’s customary to describe every upcoming election as critical. That’s always been the case with Scottish independence, as should the pro-independence parties fail to win a majority in the Scottish Parliament, and we’re unfortunate enough to get a Labour – or god forbid – Tory first minister, independence would be off…

It’s been a good couple of weeks for hopes of Scottish independence, with some very positive opinion poll results, and signs of a new assertiveness amongst the main pro-independence parties. It’s a glimmering of hope in the stormy skies of British politics, where the dark looming clouds of the far right…

We are now at the point which was predicted by a friend of mine in 2014 in the aftermath of that year’s independence referendum. After a careful study of the demographic breakdown of the referendum vote, in which voters belonging to the older generation were far more likely to break for…

Not a day goes by without the BBC, Sky News or ITV News covering a story about what they insist on calling the “migrant crisis”. In this they are following the agenda of the right wing print media, which is obsessed with immigration and which covers the topic in an ever…

With all the anger and controversy over the Labour government’s proposal to introduce mandatory digital ID cards for everyone legally resident in the UK, no one is now talking about the anger and controversy over Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney and his dodgy undeclared donations, no murder tents are about…

In these miserable and frightening times, it’s nice to be able to report some good news for a change, and not just that all over America all these Evangelical Republican Christians are currently demanding to speak to the Rapture manager, the Rapture having failed yet again to take place on its…

It was always predictable that a Labour government led by Keir Starmer would get very unpopular very quickly. Starmer’s promise of “change” was always hollow. A corporate centrist hell bent on opening the NHS to privatisation was never going to deliver the meaningful and far reaching change that Labour voters in…

The far right rally which was organised by the criminal thug Stephen Yaxley-Lennon in London last weekend is an alarming harbinger of what is to come. Scotland needs to pay attention, because if we don’t take action to assert our right to self-determination, those far right demonstrators massed in the streets…

In the wake of the killing of far right influencer Charlie Kirk, the right wing has revealed the truth about its attitude to free speech. The hypocrisy of the right on freedom of speech was there all the time, but the right’s response to the killing of Charlie Kirk has exposed…

On Saturday in London there was the largest far-right rally that the UK has seen in decades. Called Unite the Kingdom, the march was organised by far right thug and convicted criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and his supporters. Attended by over 100,000, the crowd, comprised overwhelmingly of white people, the great majority…

Earlier this year there was a serious nuclear incident at Faslane naval base on the Clyde, where the UK’s fleet of nuclear submarines are based. Nuclear incidents are graded on a scale of seriousness, from category D to category A, with category A being the most serious. Category A represents an…

In July 2025, Keir Starmer’s Labour party was elected on a promise of ‘change’, a suitably vacuuous slogan which allowed voters to impute to it whatever they liked. Most hoped for a change from the pettiness, self-serving cronyism, callous cruelty and corruption which characterised the previous Tory government. A year on,…

Following the findings of an investigation into her evasion of tax on a property she purchased in Brighton and the ruling that she had broken the Ministerial Code, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raynor jumped before she was pushed and resigned from the Labour government, prompting a major reshuffle by Keir Starmer…

This week First Minister John Swinney unveiled details of his plan for independence, which rests upon the SNP securing a majority in Holyrood after next year’s Scottish elections. An opinion poll published on Thursday, the first Scottish opinion poll in a while, found that the SNP is within shouting distance of…