Tory attacks on Darling aren’t bizarre – they’re calculated
Reports in this morning’s papers (including this one in The FT(£)) suggest that there’s been some fairly systematic…
Scotland
We are where we are
The minute Salmond trailed his White Paper Scotland’s Future: your guide to an independent Scotland as ‘The most comprehensive blueprint…
Top 10 moments in Scottish Labour movement history
1) Keir Hardie enters parliament 2) Mary Barbour’s army wins rent controls 3) Jennie Lee creates the Open…
Is that it?
The SNP White paper on Independence – my first reaction – seriously, is that it? After months of…
Our country might be dissolved and most of you don’t seem to have noticed
I’m British. Whenever I have to fill out a census form, or one of those annoying scroll-down boxes…
“Nothing has changed” – Darling responds to SNP White Paper on Independence
Responding to the SNP unveiling their manifesto White Paper today on Scottish Independence, Alistair Darling (the Leader of Better…
Independence only offers a progressive future if you try very hard to ignore the SNP’s policies
John Harris has chosen the week of Dr Who’s 50th Anniversary to fire up the Tardis and arrive…
Labour MSP Helen Eadie passes away
The Scottish labour Party has been reacting today to the sad news that Helen Eadie MSP passed away…
Who is Joan McAlpine to criticise Scottish soldiers for their loyalty to Britain in 1914?
For those who don’t know, Joan McAlpine is an SNP MSP (and Parliamentary aide to Alex Salmond) who,…
Scotland needs more than constitutional change – it needs economic and social change too
Today in Scotland it appears that the only change on offer is constitutional change. Not change to the…
