Opinions

Maybe the SNP is still in a huff about the collapse of its national care service plan, but I was far from alone in being staggered that there was no reference...

The SNP budget is a stark illustration of the problems besetting Scotland and the Scottish economy, a programme of public spending bereft of genuine ambition...

It’s not often, if ever, I feel moved to start a column by praising the leader of the SNP, but as the anniversary of the tragic Baberton Mains gas explosion...

People tend not to contact their MSPs when things are going well, so meetings can be difficult and the inevitable battles with officialdom dispiriting...

It saddens me to devote so many of these columns to the blight of anti-social behaviour, but my inbox continues to be filled by people increasingly fearful for...

Amidst the mayhem associated with Bonfire Night over the past fortnight, the routine job of policing our streets doesn’t stop, but the mass deployment of riot...

For a government supposedly putting economic growth on top of its agenda, a £40 billion tax grab and hammering businesses large and small with the much-trailed...

Change, promised Labour’s election manifesto, was coming and the man put up regularly as the agent of the biggest change of all was shadow health secretary Wes...

Like Christmas promotions in September but much more sinister, there are still nearly three weeks to go before Bonfire Night but already the associated anti...