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…

If the Labour government wanted to know why so many people are claiming sickness and disability benefits for anxiety and depression, all they need to do is to cast an eye over the handiwork of their pals in the anti-independence Scottish media – which is to say almost all of it….

Just before the Chancellor Rachel Reeves made her Spring Budget statement this week, the Guardian newspaper published a story reporting on the new austerity cuts that she was set to announce, the headline ran: “Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn.” This headline is, to put…

It cost £2.3 million, it lasted four years. It originated in a politically motivated complaint from a notorious attention seeker with a habit of making nuisance complaints to the police, but Police Scotland’s Operation Branchform has finally come to an end – without any charges being brought against former first minister…

The head of the DWP, the Department of Wickedness and Persecution, Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall, the mad axe-woman of Westminster, today announced the biggest cuts ever to sickness and disability benefits, kicking away the crutches of some of the most vulnerable in society. The scale of the cuts is…