YOU COULD practically hear the bored irritation in the first minister’s voice when she answered the STV journalist’s question on 3 June of this year.
Promises of a Scotland-specific public inquiry unfulfilled, a botched job protecting care homes and an allergy to accountability. Truth is, the SNP have failed our
COLIN BEATTIE, the SNP’s national treasurer has issued a new statement attempting to explain away the concerns surrounding the allegedly missing ‘frozen’ funds for a
‘THE BIG LIE’ (die große Lüge) is a propaganda technique used for political purposes; defined as “a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the facts, especially
PLATITUDES are une partie du jeu, part of the game of politics. These statements, often containing moral content, become too overused to remain interesting. But when
ALTHOUGH Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon frequently demands that London respects devolved competencies yet she has never demonstrated any respect for reserved matters such as foreign
WHEN NICOLA STURGEON delivered her 2016 ‘Priorities for Government’ speech, the tone was optimistic. She spoke professionally about the sort of Scotland she was pledging
THE SLEW OF ALLEGATIONS affecting Scottish public life is disturbing, to put it mildly. But what is more alarming has been the lowering of the
NICOLA STURGEON boasted to Holyrood that she was ‘relishing’ her chance to appear before the Inquiry. Now if you are like me and you like
WHEN THE LORD ADVOCATE appeared before the Scottish Parliament committee of inquiry today, after being accused by a former Lord Chancellor of having been “absent
IN THE AFTERMATH of Labour’s crushing electoral defeat minds quickly turned to speculating how such a thing could have happened. Was it Brexit? Or perhaps