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The Plot Thickens: First swords drawn in Scottish #GE2015
Three days ago I blogged here on six front-runners in the SNP candidacy selection process. It appears someone would like one of the candidates’ chances as limited as possible. This morning I received,...
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Salmond: signs of worrying?
What a scoop for the Courier and its Political Editor Kieran Andrews landing not only an in-depth interview with the former First Minister Alex Salmond but bagging him as a weekly columnist. However...
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Scottish Labour’s electoral decline did not begin in September
It is with much bemusement I have noted some of the comments surrounding post-referendum Scottish politics. Apparently, overnight, Labour in Scotland suddenly collapsed. From the natural party of...
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Coatbridge SNP Selection Shenanigans
After 7 days since online voting for the Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill SNP selection ceased the result was announced yesterday. The victorious candidate Philip Boswell is now tasked with pulling...
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Get them poured
It’s not going to reverse the polls or solve Scottish Labour’s wider issues but Jim Murphy’s call to reintroduce the selling of alcohol at football grounds will be widely welcomed by football fans...
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1918 and The Repeating of British Electoral History
One of the finest pieces of analysis on the general election campaign emerged from Alex Massie in The Spectator this week. The article contains various points of interest but one that got me stroking...
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Sinn Féin’s Welfare Reform Block Is Aimed At Voters In The Republic
Monday’s dramatic lodging of a petition of concern over the welfare reform bill by Sinn Féin in Stormont is the first of what will be many attempts by the party to portray itself as the anti-austerity...
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#FrenchGate Full Round-Up
A round-up of the main #FrenchGate events in chronological order. 3 April, Friday 21:39: Telegraph publish story by Simon Johnson that cites a leaked Scottish Office document detailing a meeting...
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Aidan’s Views On The News
Now working fifty hours a week over the summer I have been unable to write as much as I would like. However, I am going to try to set aside a night or two a week to run through that day’s news stories...
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Oxi Triumphs but Greece Loses
Yesterday’s emphatic victory for the Oxi/No campaign in the referendum in Greece was hailed as victory ‘against austerity’ by Syriza and by the left here in Britain. Young Greek Syriza supporters...
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Scott-ish Identity and The Referendum
The passage of time often transforms our perspective of past events, places and people. As the one year anniversary of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum comes hurtling closer and closer to us I...
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Baltic Horizons
Nestled halfway between St.Petersburg and Stockholm, the Estonian capital of Tallinn has proven to be the embodiment of the transformative nature of the opening of markets and political independence....
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Jeremy Corbyn won’t stop the SNP’s rise, he will solidify it
As the Labour leadership election draws to a close it looks increasingly likely that far-left’s candidate Jeremy Corbyn will be the man to replace Ed Miliband. Corbyn’s pitch to Labour members and...
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The Corbyn Autumn that will lead to a Scottish Tory Spring
Just when Scots thought it was safe to venture outside without being handed a leaflet from a political party another election cycle begun. Last week Nicola Sturgeon launched her party’s campaign for...
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By-Election Autopsy: Scottish Tories On The Rise At Labour and the Liberals’...
Despite not stirring much excitement amongst the general public the seven council by-elections held in Scotland last Thursday were actually of some importance. The results that come in can give us an...
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Scottish Labour Declare Autonomy (Again)
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale proclaimed Monday marked a “new chapter in Scottish Labour’s history” on Twitter with the signing of a joint statement with Jeremy Corbyn on her party’s autonomy....
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Scottish Labour: Not A Branch Office But Out Of Office
Demonstrating the party’s new found autonomy Scottish Labour today declared their opposition to the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system. Not only is this in contrast to the current position...
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The 20 Women For Independence Members That Called In Police Scotland
Leading today’s news agenda in Scotland is the unraveling tale of financial mismanagement at the pro-independence campaign Women For Independence (WFI). The initial first grumblings of trouble were...
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SNP Minister’s Office Manager: WFI Are Bullies and Natalie McGarry Is Innocent
Shona McAlpine In an extraordinary Facebook rant to her 2000 ‘friends’ Shona McAlpine has called Women For Independence (WFI) bullies and that embattled SNP MP Natalie McGarry is innocent. McAlpine...
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Coatbridge SNP Infighting
Coatbridge MP Phil Boswell is under fire for using a tax avoidance scheme while in previous employment in the oil and gas industry. Boswell, who won a stunning victory in May with 56.6% of the vote,...
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