John Swinney, Scotland’s First Minister, cannot have it both ways. In an interview this week he argued that he stands by the ...

True, increases to Westminster’s Barnett Formula haven’t entirely covered higher public sector national insurance bills, but ...

The heart of the problem rests wholly with SNP policy since 2007. Ever focused on populist vote-chasing, council tax has been frozen by ...

Plans for the UK and other European countries to send troops to Ukraine are in their very early stages. But the UK prime ...

The great thing about the SNP Government is that its indecision is always final. And that’s a certainty. What else are we to ...

Reform UK are also still leading in the opinion polls. YouGov found the party are on 27%, while Labour is behind is 25% and ...

“Given all the challenges facing rural Scotland on the SNP’s watch, it is remarkable that the idea even saw the light of day.” Cathy Dwyer, the SAWC chairman and professor of animal ...

Fergus Ewing, one of the SNP's longest serving MSPs, has called for “a grand coalition of the parties” to address the social challenges ...

But all the same, it’s an idea that will have feline lovers hissing in anger and some ornithologists grinning like a Cheshire cat. Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney ruled out banning or ...

Inevitably, it is not – so far as the SNP is concerned, anyway – its fault that the idea of an NCS has come to nothing. Announcing that the service would not be set up, Todd told MSPs the ...

Ms Forbes might have a tough job convincing her party’s powerbase, or what’s left of it, that soaking the rich isn’t always a brilliant idea. Delegates at the SNP conference last year ...

Angus MacDonald is 62 and he's up every morning at five to start work. On longer working days - whether at Westminster or in ...