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You’ll be expecting this to be about the SNP Conference and in the end I've decided to live up to that expectation. The reason for...

Alright, it does appear now more likely than not that there will be a referendum. I am finally forced to make that concession by a single ...

As regular readers will know it has been a recurring theme here that the First Minister (not, for the avoidance of any doubt, the whole of t...

The United Kingdom is in a financial crisis that is leading to significant cuts in public expenditure. And a lot of people in no way respo...

I've never seen my role on this Blog to be to act as a cheerleader. One of the privileges of having been in the Labour Party for so lo...

I promised on twitter earlier this week that my blog tonight would not be about politics. And it's not. Really. But it would be righ...

I start with a wee foreword. I joked yesterday on Twitter that  the first draft of this blog had been stolen. I meant simply that the orig...