Iain Macwhirter

The Tesla owner is right to resist calls to ban his social media platform, but Twitter/X is also giving misinformation the oxygen of publicity

The SNP has a unique capacity for generating internal rows over issues which have little to do with Scottish independence. The transgender reform bill comes to mind.

Scotland’s drug misuse deaths – the worst in Europe – have long been a stain on the Scottish government’s record. Today it just got worse. The latest figures show a shocking 12 per cent increase in drug deaths to 1,172. It dashes hopes that last year’s dip in mortality showed that the problem was easing.

The SNP is without answers and most importantly without a credible leader after last month’s general election disaster

The nationalists make their usual call to tax the rich but it’s the middle classes that suffer from their revenue-raising

The Scottish National Party is not renowned for its calm and considered approach to politics.

Scotland's First Minister John Swinney has said ending child poverty will be the 'single greatest priority' of his government

If you really want to annoy a Scottish nationalist, tell them the 2014 Scottish independence referendum had a lot in common with Brexit. Well, what was the battle cry in both cases? It was ‘take back control’. For all its internationalist rhetoric, the Yes campaign was – is – a campaign to erect borders against a

The opinion polls are going south faster than you can say ‘should’ve gone to Specsavers’ and Scottish Labour’s nine-point lead has evaporated

John Swinney has the power to reverse Labour’s cut to the winter fuel allowance but we are having to rely on a retired Coatbridge couple to come to the rescue