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Joanna Cherry: Whatever Boris says, there could be a legal route to IndyRef2
Anyone who tunes into Prime Minister’s Questions these days ought to be prepared to hear the issue of Scottish independence…
Boris must correct the mistakes of Scottish devolution
Boris Johnson’s refusal to grant a second independence referendum is a source of relief rather than joy for Scottish unionists.…
Can anyone stop the SNP’s drive for independence?
Nicola Sturgeon’s reshuffle of her Westminster team is more than a post-election shake-up of the Nationalist front bench. For one…
Is a vote for the SNP really a vote for prime minister Corbyn?
Nicola Sturgeon says she wants to form a “progressive alliance” after the election to evict Boris Johnson from 10 Downing…
Nicola Sturgeon’s Brexit bounce
There was a fairytale quality to Nicola Sturgeon’s speech to the SNP conference this afternoon. On the one hand, she…
How to tame Scottish nationalism
Happy Union Day, the fifth anniversary of Scotland’s vote to remain in the United Kingdom. It’s gotten so commercial, though…
Gordon Brown has done enough damage in Scotland
Gordon Brown has broken his silence again. The former prime minister told the Edinburgh International Book Festival that the Scottish…
Scotland’s dirty little secret: we’re as anti-immigration as England
In August 2007, three months after coming to power at Holyrood, the SNP launched its National Conversation on Scotland’s constitutional…
It’s too late for the SNP to rein in the cybernats
‘It is better to ride the tiger’s back than let it rip your throat out’ is reputedly how Tony Blair…
Who does Nicola Sturgeon think she is?
It’s been a busy old week in Scottish politics. The SNP government is suffering a public backlash over plans to…
The price of the SNP’s Brexit strategy
Nicola Sturgeon’s indication that SNP MPs will back a second vote on Brexit might be clever politics but it is…
Alex Salmond’s fundraising efforts
In a rather dramatic turn of events, former first minister Alex Salmond quit the SNP last night over allegations of…
Alex Salmond: why I have resigned from the SNP
I truly love the SNP and the wider independence movement in Scotland. They have been the defining commitment of my…
Revealed: the Scottish uni courses for (feepaying) English students only
When Alex Salmond stepped down as First Minister, he famously unveiled a commemorative stone engraved with the message ‘The rocks…
SNP’s fake Brexit news
Given the current mess the Conservative party finds itself in, you’d be forgiven for thinking that all their opponents need…
Why is Sturgeon rolling out the red carpet for Catalonia’s president?
Pity the flunky at Bute House, official residence of Nicola Sturgeon, whose job it is to get the red carpet…
Sturgeon’s cabinet reshuffle marks the beginning of the end
Greater love, as wags responded to Harold Macmillan’s “night of the long knives” reshuffle, hath no man than that he…
The myth of the SNP’s Brexit ‘power grab’
Forgive me if I seem out of sorts but my country has been through a lot this past week. We have…
The SNP walk out was about attention, not accountability
The SNP thinks Westminster is an anachronism but boy does it love those anachronisms. The Nationalists’ London leader Ian Blackford…
Does the tantrum-prone SNP not realise how privileged Scotland is?
Jeremy Corbyn had one of his best PMQs ever. Then it all went wrong. His witty use of Boris’s recent…
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