SNP MP Stewart Hosie is to resign as the Depute leader of the SNP, it has been announced. The news follows revelations of an affair between the senior SNP politician, who is married to SNP MSP Shona Robison, and a…
The twisting and turning of BBC Scotland
On March 30th in the middle of the Scottish election campaign, Scottish Labour made a shock announcement. Please follow and like us 🙂
Crikey! ComRes confounds us with another cracking EU contradiction
This week has been the perfect example of what drives me crazy about people’s irrational responses to individual opinion polls. We’ve had seven EU referendum polls since Monday, and this is what they’ve shown – * Five reported a Remain…
BBC Scotland – A Unionist smear machine
They’re at it again. The people behind the scenes at BBC Scotland who decide what is ‘news’ and what isn’t, have decided to help in the concoction of a smear they know is almost certainly false. Please follow and like…
RISE of the useful idiots
The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Bill is in the news. It’s in the news because it’s also in the cross-hairs of the opposition parties at Holyrood. Opposition parties see the chance to score a quick win against…
Here we go!
And so it begins. Or should I say, so it continues. The same petty politicking on the part of the British parties that marred the last parliament. The same determination to score a hit on the hated SNP regardless of…
Leading RISE figure attacks ‘sectarian SNP’
A leading figure in Scotland’s new radical left party has attacked what he called the SNP’s “sectarian tactics”. Please follow and like us 🙂
Delusion and illusion
Suppose, by suspending healthy scepticism for a moment, we allow that the outcome of the Holyrood election represents something akin to a “Tory revival”; isn’t it striking that this supposed “triumph” provokes in hard-core unionist commentators such as Alex Massie,…
Comfort zones
Patrick Harvie is being touted – or is touting himself – as holding the balance of power at Holyrood. He is portrayed as having the ability to force the SNP’s hand on a number of issues. But is that really…
Sorting priorities
It seems we all got it wrong. There’s been endless interpretation and reinterpretation of the outcome of the recent Holyrood elections. But it looks like everybody was missing something. SNP supporters naively assumed that their party had won. They can…