This is the SNP’s latest messaging. Ministers, MSPs, payroll drones and the central party account were all tweeting the graphic and variations on the line yesterday. And it’s quite ...

It’s worth remembering that they didn’t have to do this. Labour had already announced their intention to abstain. There was ...

It’s a well-known truism that if a newspaper headline is phrased as a question, the answer to that question is always “No”. And nothing’s changed here.

In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that the very concept of democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably ...

We’re stuck indoors waiting for a repairman today, so we had a little read-around of some of the less popular Scottish ...

People sometimes ask us if we get bored of being right all the time. But in truth, we just wish we had to work a bit harder at it.

Robin McAlpine published a very important piece yesterday, detailing how the SNP is about to become even more of a leadership dictatorship than it already is. We’re annoyed at ourselves, because we ...

In the recent US election, the Democrats made a huge play out of the notion that the very concept of democracy itself was at risk if Donald Trump won. And yet his eventual victory was unquestionably ...

Y’know, maybe we were a little harsh on the lads at Holyrood Sources yesterday when we implied that a more direct and aggressive interviewing style might have cut through John Swinney and Kate Forbes’ ...

Don’t watch this. You’ll only waste 12 minutes of your life making yourself angry. It’s our job to be angry for you. Quite aside from anything else, the title is a barefaced lie. There is nothing ...

Any rational assessment of Scottish (or indeed UK or world) politics at the moment tends to be negative and depressing, so since it’s a new year we thought we’d make an extra-special effort at writing ...