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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…
The poor wee SNP
Of course it was a “stunt” – the Westminster village’s preferred term for any piece of nonsense that disrupts the…
Kezia Dugdale comes to the SNP’s defence
When Kezia Dugdale stepped down as the leader of Scottish Labour, there were rumours that she was planning to defect…
A Brexit ‘power grab’ could play into the SNP’s hands
The stramash between Theresa May’s government in London and Nicola Sturgeon’s ministry in Edinburgh over the need for the devolved…
Why is the SNP trying to rewrite history?
One of the joys of living under a nationalist government is the exciting pace at which the facts change. What…
Nicola Sturgeon’s response to Brexit has utterly failed
What’s Nicola Sturgeon playing at on Brexit? Quick answer: politics. Longer answer: politics. The SNP leader has rejected a deal…
The Tories just don’t get it
Sometimes it is the little details that tell you everything you need to know. So when, as Politics Home revealed…
The Russian spy poisoning is tearing the SNP apart
The SNP is a coalition that behaves like a megachurch and when the spirit is low, the congregation remembers its…
Chief Whip’s SNP blunder
Oh dear. How best to stop a row over the terms for fishermen in the Brexit transition period escalating into…
SNP’s fake news
The SNP are a quieter force in Westminster since the snap election. Along with a reduction in size, they now…
Is shortbread unpatriotic? Some Scottish nationalists think so
Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, was a red-baiter of such ferocity he made Joe McCarthy look like…
The SNP should reinvent itself
The SNP, you’ll be distressed to learn, are having a time of it. The party is embroiled in a deputy…
Scotland is paying a heavy price for the SNP’s independence obsession
Say what you like about Nicola Sturgeon but she’s consistent. Every autumn, when she sets out her programme for government,…
Why has the SNP inflicted this video on us?
I don’t know where people get the idea the SNP is intolerant of criticism. Scotland’s most open-minded party has released…
Mhairi Black rejects Alex Salmond’s sartorial advances
Since arriving in Parliament in 2015, Mhairi Black has caused a stir in Westminster. The 23-year-old SNP MP rarely misses…
Brexit tribalism is a virus, and it’s driving the right mad
It’s remarkable how quickly tribalism can capture people. Three years ago, only a small number of politicians and commentators advocated…
Watch: Scottish Conservatives vs SNP
It’s Opposition day and the SNP’s motion calling for improved transitional measures for the ‘waspi’ women has been the cause…
The SNP’s supporters have never been more angry and afraid
It’s quiet up in Scotland at the minute. We’ve not tried to secede in a few months, some MSPs are…
Theresa May’s Scotland blunder
Although it’s widely accepted that Theresa May’s decision to call a snap election was disastrous, one of the few upshots…
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