RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE has attempted to make political capital out of the claim that around 40 per cent of Reform Scotland candidates were previously members
AS THE long campaign for the Holyrood election on May 7 began last week, a political tremor has been running through Scotland: electoral politics as
THE MOST STRIKING aspect of yesterday’s council by-election in Fife is the success of ReformUK. From a standing start, Romano Valente, the Reform candidate, took
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,