THE MAIDEN SPEECH of Airdrie’s new MP was predictable in too many ways. Having laid on generic platitudes to NHS staff, who were until recently
“Denying the SNP an overall majority was, indeed, a collective effort – at least on the part of Unionist voters, who on the constituency ballot
Your statement on the Jerusalem conflict Dear First Minister, IT IS WITH GREAT CONCERN and sadness that I write to you today following your recent
THE RECENT Scottish Parliamentary Elections signalled another slump in the fortunes of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Just when many of us were thinking it couldn’t
COVID-19 MEASURES have been the most important political issue over the past year, so it’s striking that little has so far been said about what
IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS, we will not be seeing another referendum in Scotland. The UK government don’t want one, the SNP don’t want one
WHILE YESTERDAY’S VOTES should offer the first real glimpse of public opinion since the Covid nightmare began last March the politicians’ commitments will still not
IT’S OBVIOUS there’ll be no ProUK single party gaining a working majority in May. Even though the SNP will probably see its vote share, in
EVEN BEFORE the Coronavirus fear response closed down businesses, schools and hospitals and sent waiting lists through the roof – including for life-saving surgery –
ON FRIDAY I delivered All For Unity and Scotland Matters placards to two farmers, who displayed them in their fields facing main roads. Both happen
I ACCEPTED an invitation to stand for the Freedom Alliance a mere seven weeks ago. The wholesale dismissal of any sense or expertise weighing in
READING a recent headline ‘1,600 trees a DAY axed to pave the way for turbines’ took my mind back to a 2019 general election hustings