The Tories are in meltdown this week as two by elections loom in what were nominally safe Conservative seats in the English Tory heartlands, although given the current state of the party there is no longer such a thing as a safe seat for the Tories. Febrile back bench MPs are…

There’s currently a burning question in Scottish politics, although it’s not a question that gets any airtime in a Scottish media that’s obsessed with Nicola Sturgeon’s WhatsApp messages in a desperate attempt to create a political equivalence between the Scottish Government’s handling of the pandemic and that of Boris Johnson. So…

Two opinion polls published over the past few days had important information for the Scottish independence campaign, the first showed that a substantial majority of the Scottish population believe that the Scottish Parliament should have the power to hold an independence referendum without the permission of the Westminster government 57.5% of…

When Better Together reeled off their list of the supposed benefits of being part of the UK for Scotland, they did not include conscription, compulsory service in the armed forces, as one of the attractions of the British state. And with very good reason, because being forced against your will to…

The anti-independence media in Scotland, which is the overwhelming majority of that smug and self-satisfied Scottish institution, has over the past few days been indulging itself in its favourite pastime of a perspective free feeding frenzy of SNPbad. On this occasion the cause of its call for a procession of pitchforks…

On Wednesday Anas Sarwar, the branch office manager of Labour’s Scottish accounting unit tweeted: “Every vote matters – and at the next General Election a vote for Scottish Labour is a vote to put Scotland’s voice at the heart of government.” However less than 24 hours previously Labour MPs had voted…

Ever since the British Government started to base its nuclear submarines and their arsenal of nuclear missiles on the Clyde in the 1960s, there have been protests in Scotland against hosting weapons of mass destruction just a few miles away from the largest conurbation in the country. The British Polaris programme,…

What do you do when you’re a right wing British nationalist government in an election yearand you’ve been 20% behind in the polls for months? Even with the assistance of a supine media which looks the other way when there is mounting evidence of your rampant corruption and chronic chaos and…

Rishi Sunak has given the clearest indication yet that he intends to delay calling the next Westminster general election until the second half of the year, quashing the speculation which had been growing recently that Sunak was poised to call an early election shortly after the budget is announced in March….

Both Labour and the Tories made use of the holiday season to sneak out bad news while those of us who are fortunate enough to have a roof over our heads and food on the table are stuffing ourselves and drinking too much. Just before Christmas a senior Labour source told…

The holidays are coming up so I won’t be blogging for the duration. I will be back in the New Year. I am sure that there will be plenty to keep you occupied in the comments section in the meantime. My mum has been transferred to a hospital closer to most…

Scottish Tory peer Michelle Mone, who was awarded a seat in the House of Lords by David Cameron for her services to trolling on behalf of the Yookay during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum has been in the news recently over allegations about her role in a so called VIP lane…

Just when you thought that the dysfunctional and chaotic theatre of cruelty that passes for the Conservative government could not stoop any lower, it still manages to shock with its performative sadism and its capacity to destroy the lives of thousands of law abiding and gainfully employed people purely for the…

I thought I’d put a brief piece online, mainly in order to prevent the comments section from getting too long and unwieldy. There’s certainly a great deal going on right now politically, but I am still preoccupied by family matters. Having thought a few days ago that my mum had only…

The anti-independence media, including certain commentators who claim to support independence and describe themselves as “critical friends of the SNP” but spend all their time and energy attacking the Scottish Government and resolutely refusing to make any positive arguments for independence, have recently taken to crowing that it’s all over for…