SO, said the presenter out of the blue, what’s your plan for independence? Irritatingly good question, to which a jumbled response invoking first ministers who had no consistent pathway was quite inadequate.
IT’S not a pretty bidding war as Sunak and Starmer slug it out to see who can devise the most The Sun/Daily Mail-friendly slogan. Stop the boats or smash the gangs. Just sound ever-more tough even if the policy cupboard is being run by Old
THE reactions to the Believe in Scotland/Yes For EU rally last weekend have been nothing if not interesting. Some folk voiced resentment at the EU component, having plighted their post-independence troth
A KISS is just a kiss, warbled Sam in the iconic movie Casablanca. Not always, Sam. Not when the kisser is the president of a football federation whose women’s team has just won the World Cup.
SMEDDUM. A fine old Scots word but, sadly, not much evidence of it being a fine contemporary virtue in Scotland right now.
AMONG things turning 21 this year is the politically late Theresa May’s message to her party conference that some folks thought the Tories “the nasty party”. I think we can dispense with the “some” now, ducks, don’t you?
IT’S a right worry. At this rate we’re going to run out of asylums for the lunatics to take over. This past week has seen much evidence on both sides of
IT would be all too easy to dismiss Baron Foulkes of Cumnock as little more than a clown. Though that might be thought unkind to all those folk employed by
THE late Lord Lawson of Blaby said one or two arresting things in his day (not least about the blessed Margaret Thatcher when he was her Chancellor of the Exchequer!).
ARE you sitting comfortably – I’ll soon sort that. For starters by suggesting that the Westminster Tories and the SNP government have quite a lot in common!
