Former Herald columnist Iain MacWhirter has completed his journey from semi-detached sympathiser with Scottish independence – although he never fully abandoned his delusional hopes of a federal UK – to fully fledged cheerleader for the British establishment. MacWhirter always used to position himself as one of those “critical friends” that the…

Britain is broken, and sadly things are going to get much worse. Indeed there is currently no clear route to a UK which is more just, more humane, and more equitable. Even the drubbing that the Labour party received at the local elections in England on 1 May do not seem…

I got my review pack for Adult Disability Payment. It was very quick and easy to fill in. I checked the box confirming no changes to my condition and sent back the form with a copy of a letter written by my occupational therapist when I was discharged which confirms that…

I had planned to write a blog article on Wednesday despite the fact I am struggling with a bad cold and hayfever simultaneously. It’s a joy. However instead I had to sort out what is going on with my review for Scottish Adult Disability Payment, which was supposed to have started…

Just over one hundred years ago, the two major political parties in the UK were the Tories and the Liberals. Then the Labour party rose on the left – Labour really was a left wing party back then, and in the years following the First World War, Labour entirely displaced the…

In recent years the previously innocuous, even arcane, matter of pronouns has become intensely politicised in the often toxic debate around trans issues. I’ve tended to steer clear of this topic, partly because as a newly disabled person who was coming to terms with the life-altering effects of a massive stroke…

What exactly is the point of Starmer’s supposedly Labour government? Just a few days after we learned that Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves are considering tax cuts for billionaire tech oligarchs, we discover that Labour ministers are ruling out the abolition of the two child benefit cap on the grounds…

For quite some time a definite pattern has emerged from opinion polling on Scottish independence, younger generations are more likely to support Scottish independence than older folk, the oldest generation consistently shows a substantial majority against independence whereas amongst younger people there is majority support for it. So for example, according…

Just a quick update to let everyone know that this year’s annual fundraiser has reached its target in record time, the target of £6000 was reached on Thursday morning, within ten days of being launched.  I must be doing something right, and whatever it is, I will keep on doing it…

I was the guest on this week’s Independence Live’s TNT Show with John Drummond. If you missed the live stream, you can view the programme on YouTube From all sources, I am now just £291 away from hitting the fundraiser target of £6000, please help with that final push! ___________________________________________________ A…

Following on from yesterday’s exceptional news from a poll which gave independence a double digit lead, The National has followed up with Holyrood polling from the same poll, which, if replicated in the Scottish election which is now only a year away, would give the pro-independence parties a massive majority of…

It’s definitely happening, as anyone who’s been paying attention knew it would. The experience of a Labour government which was elected on a promise of change but which has proven to be in office all but indistinguishable from the Tories Labour ousted, has very predictably driven Scots to the realisation that…

Just a quick update on the progress of this year’s blog fundraiser. The fundraiser has now been running for just seven days and of its target of £6000, a total of £4957 has so far been donated either on my GoFundMe page, via PayPal, or through Ko-Fi. That’s an amazing 82.6%…

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that I have a very low opinion of Labour’s branch manager in Scotland, the current – but soon to be former – claimant to the throne of Saviour of the Union, and by throne I mean the kind that every home possesses…

It’s that time of the year again, when I ask readers of this blog to make a contribution, big or small, to keeping this blog running for another year. As we approach next year’s Holyrood elections, I intend to increase the frequency of new posts on the blog from the current…