Alex Massie

Party that purged itself of members who dared to suggest that “sex is a biological reality” should never have been in government in the first place

‘Honest John’ Swinney said his chum had already suffered enough, and rejected the recommendations of the standards committee

Voter exhaustion with the ruling parties in Westminster and Holyrood is likely to result in a brutal day of reckoning on July 4

The nationalists’ bungling of the Michael Matheson iPad affair is yet another distraction in their most perilous period yet

Every piece of bad news reaffirms the conviction that this is a governing party that has exhausted its reserves of competence. It is time for a change

A visiting ethnographer tasked with providing a single-word summation of the public mood in Britain and, indeed, Scotland today might be hard-pushed to come up with something more appropriate than

As matters currently stand, the government’s priorities are to increase public sector pay rather than public sector productivity

Rachel Reeves provided each of Scotland’s three main parties with the ammunition they wanted, leading to a jovial mood at first minister’s questions

Restoring winter fuel payments for all pensioners and increasing public sector pay may help the SNP win votes but it won’t generate growth

The first minister says it’s his duty to deal with the president-elect but that cuts little ice with the Green’s disapproving primary school teacher