Election reflections
Today is the day when the critical individual voting decisions are being taken and enacted – and the day when the tally of these decisions will incontrovertibly shape the future of Scotland and the...
View ArticleScottish Leaders’ debate – a clear win for Davidson
This was a debate Nicola Sturgeon did not dominate – but she will draw some comfort from the fact that it was another woman who topped out.The clear winner was Ruth Davidson, Leader of the Scottish...
View ArticlePrivatisation: Scottish Government binned its own ferry company in favour of...
The political opportunism of the Scottish Government’s sudden championing of nationalisation is best shown by examining its own practice.Under persistent questioning in a recent interview with Bernard...
View ArticleThe debate: Darling’s finest moment –‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’
Tonight’s STV debate between pro-independence Alex Salmond and pro-union Alastair Darling was unexpectedly riveting – because Alastair Darling proved a complete surprise. The bookies will have lost a...
View ArticleIndy v the union: the two hour debate Salmond can ‘win’ but cannot win
The spirit does sink at the prospect of two hours of this on the near horizon but, after the release of the Commonwealth Games, we now have to gird up for the sheer enormity of the decision we have to...
View ArticleSalmond: Legal opinion ‘will inform White Paper’. How can we be sure?
Alex Salmond has repeatedly claimed that an independent Scotland would be given automatic EU membership as ‘a successor state’.The universal impression he and bis colleagues gave was that they had...
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