ianssmart

One of the oldest sayings in politics is that oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them. Problem is that it is not true. ...

The nomination meeting for my CLP is taking place tonight at a location I can literally see from my office. It's at 7pm. It therefor mak...

Happy new year. I wrote in my last blog about the extent that what happened on 12th December has completely changed the political agenda. ...

In the late afternoon on the day after the 1983 General Election my then girlfriend and I spoke at great length on the (landline) telephone ...

It has been a strangely British election in Scotland. In 2015 and 2017 the UK General elections were essentially different events north an...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,........ The best lack all conviction, while the wor...

It says everything that today's Panelbase poll giving Scottish Labour a mere 20% was nonetheless greeted with some sense of relief in my...