Euan Mccolm

If you need proof that the SNP’s modus operandi in government is to make it up on the hoof, consider the party’s plan for a National Care Service (NCS). Announced by former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, the NCS was to be a radical – even visionary – solution to growing pressure on both the National Health

Even as glass shatters around them, nationalist politicians and their pit-bull spin-doctors lash out, denouncing those with whom they disagree as immoral and malevolent.

Only surprising thing about James Cleverly’s elimination was that people were surprised

The truth, and it is a difficult one, is that although Salmond was cleared in court in 2021 of any criminal behaviour, he was a flawed man who used his office to bully and intimidate others.

At the time of his passing, former first minister had become the figurehead of the ‘angry’ nationalism he once though would damage the independence cause

Do you, like me, hold the quaint view that the Scottish Government should be focused on the major problems being faced by families across the country?

This obsession among the current political class with gender ideology means that major public bodies don’t have coherent policies on single sex spaces

The greatest con the SNP has ever pulled off is persuading a substantial number of people that its policies are progressive.

The case of the Scottish government and the missing legal advice makes clear just how hypocritical the SNP is.

Perhaps John Swinney is regretting Labour’s largesse with its Budget handing out billions to Scotland. The First Minister no longer has a scapegoat in the south, writes Euan McColm​