by Robin McAlpine | 29 Mar 2023 | Opinion
I wanted to give it 48 hours or so to see how things settled down, to talk to quite a few people to gather the mood and to see the shape of what was to come next. I think we need to work out where we are before we have any chance of working out where we go next.... by Robin McAlpine | 27 Mar 2023 | Opinion
So there we go, the SNP machine does seem truly unstoppable. Even with a candidate that their own people don’t think is strong, even after a weak campaign, even though it fell apart in the middle of the operation – still the SNP Machine always wins. The SNP as a... by Robin McAlpine | 27 Mar 2023 | Opinion
First published by Common Weal The single most common question people are asking me just now is a simple one – why do the problems in the SNP seem to have come as such a surprise to Scotland’s journalists? Why are bits of information which have long been in the... by Robin McAlpine | 22 Mar 2023 | Opinion
Come Monday there will be (god willing) the start of a new era in Scotland. That new era is most certainly not without its challenges and that is what I will focus my time on. But given everything it would be odd for me not to do a brief political obituary for Nicola... by Robin McAlpine | 20 Mar 2023 | Opinion
You’ve all seen Armando Iannucci’s brilliant The Death of Stalin? Now imagine it recast with the Still Game team and set in Craiglang. And that’s Scottish politics today. I was going to do a simple ‘whose fault is this?’ article today but...
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