Blog: Johann Lamont takes a very ‘brave’ political decision
HAMISH MACDONELL praises Johann Lamont’s controversial speech In the best traditions of Yes Minister, what Johann Lamont did yesterday was ‘brave’. It was probably even ‘courageous’. By announcing a...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Johann Lamont
LABOUR may undertake its most radical policy shift since the advent of devolution in 1999 by going into the next election promising to raise income tax to pay for public services, according to Scottish...
View ArticleThe SNP and NATO
IT must be galling for SNP politicians to read all those opinion pieces in the national newspapers over the course of the past week declaring we have seen the “end of the conference season” because, of...
View ArticleRennie eyes coalition with SNP or Labour
THE Liberal Democrats would look to go into coalition with either SNP or Labour in the Scottish Parliament after the next election – even if they were still in government with the Tories in London,...
View ArticleSalmond’s gamble backfires
HAMISH MACDONELL notes that, as a gambler, Alex Salmond will know that sometimes high-risk bets just don’t pay off. The First Minister gambled on his battle with the unionists over legal advice on...
View Article‘A campaign group in every community’ says head of Yes Scotland.
EVERY community in Scotland will have its own grass-roots campaign team to build support for independence, the head of Yes Scotland claimed last night. Blair Jenkins, the Chief Executive of Yes...
View ArticlePatrick Harvie
THE Greens will benefit from the SNP’s divisions over NATO, Patrick Harvie, the co-leader of the Scottish Greens claimed last night. Mr Harvie expects the Scottish Greens to recruit a number of SNP...
View ArticleYou can’t have cast-iron uncertainty
IN all the bluff and bluster from both sides in the now slightly tired debate over an independent Scotland’s place in the EU, there has been one strong shaft of light – and it has come from a most...
View ArticleMURDO FRASER Exclusive interview
THE Tories are going to harden their opposition against what they see as the “mad-cap gold rush” of wind farm developments, one of the party’s senior figures revealed today. Murdo Fraser, the former...
View ArticleThe Question is the Question
JUST when everyone thought it was safe to get into the meat of the independence debate, one more important bit of process has flared up again. This is the most important part of the process of all: the...
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