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…
JUNE 8TH/9TH 2017
As my son Brodie hands me the last soggy knock up list from Bute Drive in North Muirton we knew we had made an extraordinary…
SCOTTISH TORY MPs ARE NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS…
It’s now over six months since we’ve had Scottish Conservative MPs as a feature of the House of Commons. You’ll remember how they were going…
TOWARDS AN INDEPENDENCE 2.0
WITH all the many things said about the anniversary of the referendum it’s hard to believe that the case for independence was crafted some five…
ME AND JEREMY CORBYN
I remember the good old days when a small group of MPs were the front line in Parliamentary opposition to Blairite Labour. There were the…
A CLUELESS DELUSIONAL BREXIT.
Parliament returns this week and there will be only one show in town and that is the on going agony over Brexit. On Thursday we…
FEDERALISM
Jeremy Corbyn’s been back in Scotland and that can only mean a renewed debate about federalism in the UK. Where there’s been talk of a…