This has not been a good couple of weeks for the Scottish Tories. Totally embarrassed and overexposed on fishing, as well as being isolated in…
WE MUST CONDUCT OUR DEBATE WITH RESPECT
Well that’s been quite a couple of days…. In the last few days I’ve been called a ‘poster boy’ for the ultra unionist group Scotland…
PRAGMATISM MUST UNDERPIN OUR APPROACH TO A 2nd REFERENDUM
There is only one thing that determines my approach to a second independence referendum and that is winning it. Losing again is simply unthinkable and…
THE UK SUPERSTATE
One of the greatest political inventions of recent times has been that of the ‘UK single market’. This bizarre political invention has conveniently emerged just…
THE DEPUTE LEADERSHIP OF THE SNP
I said when I was considering standing for the Depute Leadership of the SNP that I would take soundings from colleagues within the party and…
TIMING IS EVERYTHING
I know it’s a crudely constructed piece of history more designed for Hollywood than Holyrood but I love Braveheart. My favourite part is when the…
LET’S SPEND BILLIONS OF POUNDS REDECORATING A PARLIAMENTARIAN’s PALACE
4.56 pm Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP) Of all the things this House can do to endear itself to our constituents, spending billions…