ON SATURDAY past, at a Reform UK Scotland rally in Falkirk, something happened that strengthened Reform’s prospects for the Holyrood election in May. Malcolm Offord (The Lord Offord of
THE FRONT PAGE of Friday’s Herald led with a story of rare unity among Labour and SNP leaders: Keir Starmer, Anas Sarwar and John Swinney
TWO STRIKING – and related – news stories have hit Scottish headlines this week. A Survation poll for Holyrood Sources on the 2026 Holyrood election
CHANGE, the title of its manifesto, was the stand-out slogan of Labour’s campaign earlier this year against a lost fourteen years of Conservative rule. But
WHEN I wrote for ThinkScotland after Sturgeon’s resignation and Yousaf’s accession, I argued the SNP was a basket case with no prospect of a second
WHO HASN’T been spell-bound by the drama unfolding in Scottish politics since Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation? When she resigned, I wrote about tectonic plates shifting,
SOMETIMES It’s impossible to avoid cliché, but today tectonic plates shifted in Scottish politics. Nicola Sturgeon is going. For eight years, she has been, in
WHATEVER ELSE you may say about the First Minister, she is a glutton for punishment. I can’t imagine she looks forward to First Minister’s Questions,
WHATEVER ELSE you may say about the First Minister, she is a glutton for punishment. I can’t imagine she looks forward to First Minister’s Questions,
IN THE 1980s, while living in Berlin, I was invited to a Marlene Dietrich party. I was the only woman there and by far the
A FEW WEEKS AGO the trans rights champion, Green MSP Maggie Chapman didn’t know which sex she was because she hadn’t had a chromosomal test;
AS I WRITE, 27 out of 31 Scottish MSPs have followed their leader Douglas Ross in calling for the Prime Minister to resign over partygate.