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Yesterday, when I wrote part 1 of this, it was my intention in Part 2 to go through the evidence of the Salmond trial in some detail, to dem...

I want to start with a personal anecdote. Twenty or more years ago I represented a man charged before a sheriff and jury with multiple cou...

It's a weird, weird time and, in truth, I have no special insights. I thought however I'd just record how Coronavirus is affecting...

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 ...