48 Hours later and…

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....

“Fuck it. This’ll do.” Said the SNP.

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...

Why did the media miss the mess?

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...

The Sturgeon Era: control, paranoia and vanity

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...

Can the SNP keep a lid on crisis?

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...

But why would anyone be suspicious of SNP HQ?

Surely Shauny Boy speaks for the nation with his most recent video. Seriously, why are any of the rest of us getting up in the morning to run our small business or tend to our patients or lay those breeze blocks, all to try and make Scotland a better place, if our...

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