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My favourite Janey Godley sketch is when she absolutely rips into Nicola Sturgeon's record of tax cuts and centralisation of power and exposes her mendacity in then blaming every spending

Middle of a pandemic which has demonstrated the enormous benefits of being part of the UK and @theSNP runs a PPB about independence, aiming to divide people and make us

Seems I've annoyed a few people by criticising the STUC's stance on #indyref2. Well I'm pretty annoyed too, to be told that rather than assess the likely impact of independence

"Dr Tim Rideout, Economist" has a reassuring ring to it doesn't it? You might assume the doctorate was in economics. You'd be wrong. It's in geography.https://twitter.com/lornagreens/status/1308017812909297667 Be fair,

The grouse shooting exemption is a useful case study in how differently the Scottish electorate treats its two governments. UKgov has faced strong criticism in Scotland for exempting shoots from

'No True Scotsman' really is a fallacy that runs through a lot of Scottish political analysis just now. The 700k who vote Tory, the million who voted for Brexit, they

The scare stories about indoctrinating and endangering children that you are so happy to endorse about trans rights are very easily extended to other LGBT rights, and then gradually to

Twitter, help me out here.

Wonderful news that @kezdugdale is now free of a relentless attempt to silence fair comment by a man who, as found by the court, subjected her to many years of

The deployment of the child-with-special-needs defence has angered me even more than the original breaking of the rules. Do you really think none of the hundreds of thousands of key

What the SNP has achieved in Scotland - and it is, if observed dispassionately, brilliant politics - is establishment insurgency. Despite full control over the levers of government, and with

"The English blocked our PPE" is going to be the "GERS is a unionist plot to hide our true economic might" of the #coronavirus era, and it's utterly tragic. Ignorance