WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG FOR ALBA, AGAIN…
So it was not to be the much trumpeted and long anticipated breakthrough it was rather once again electoral ignominy. Absolutely certain that the long…
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF WESTMINSTER
Once again Westminster is embroiled in another bout of ‘something has to be done-ism’ after the latest incidences of sexist and misogynistic behaviour. First we…
VOTE TILL YOU BOAK
Voters, eh? What are they like? You can give them all the information in the world about how to vote but yet they will still…
ALBA – WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG
So it wasn’t so much a ‘supermajority’ it was more electoral ignominy. Coming in at 1.7% the Alba Party didn’t rise like a phoenix but…
A PLEBISCITE CAN’T GET US TO INDEPENDENCE
With just a few weeks to go till the May Holyrood elections there are still some in the wider Yes movement hankering to turn that…
BREXIT IS A DISASTER FOR OUR MUSICIANS
Of all the things musicians would rate amongst their ambitions when setting out at the start of their career success in Europe would be close…
THE ‘DEAL’ SPEECH THAT WAS NEVER HEARD
Thank you Mr Speaker And I rise to oppose this bill. This is the concluding episode of their tortuous Brexit drama, the final slice of…
NOW IS THE TIME FOR RADICAL ACTION ON DRUG DEATHS
YESTERDAY was a bad, ugly, dispiriting day that appalled and sickened all of us involved in the debate about drugs deaths in Scotland. Every one…