Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP): It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Howarth, for this all too short debate about what we…
PETE’S TOP 10 SCOTTISH ALBUMS OF 2014
10. NOBODY WANTS TO BE HERE AND NOBODY WANTS TO LEAVE – TWILIGHT SAD Typically dark but utterly compelling, the best Twilight Sad album yet.…
Another Scottish Labour No Show
There was a big vote in the House of Commons today. We know it was big vote because the Labour Party told us it was.…
Towards a ‘No Alliance’?
The referendum has changed politics for ever in Scotland and nowhere is this more pronounced than in the voting intentions for the Westminster general election.…
UKIP AND THE SNP
Of all the lazy and ridiculous comparisons made in politics the one that goes, ‘The SNP is just the same as UKIP’ ranks as one…
WHAT AN OPPORTUNITY AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION!
The next UK election is shaping up to be one of the more interesting and intriguing contests of the past decades, with no-one really having…
DELIVER US FROM EVEL
It didn’t take them long, did it? In fact, it took the Prime Minister one hour and forty seven minutes following the announcement of the…
DEAR PRIME MINISTER, ABOUT THIS DEBATE AND THIS ‘EVEL’ BUSINESS
Dear David Can I, first of all thank you, your Government and the Speaker for the full day’s debate that will now take place on…
A ONE SCOTLAND
In 2011 the SNP won the most remarkable landslide victory. We won from Caithness to Cumnock. We won in every city in Scotland and we…
DEAR MR SPEAKER, CONCERNING THAT GORDON BROWN ‘DEBATE’
Dear Mr Speaker, I am writing to you, the Leader of the House, the Shadow Leader of the House and the Chair of the Backbench…