LIKE most of my SNP colleagues, I believe that our political representatives should be accountable to the electorate and so I do not approve of the way in which the House of Lords is selected rather than elected ...
I REALLY wish I did not have to write about the new Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act again this week. Instead, I wish the post-2014 leadership of the SNP had spent half as much time on advancing the cause of independence as they have on identity politics.
OVER the last few days, a succession of men have taken to print and to the airwaves to tell you there is no cause for concern about the new Hate Crime Act coming into force on April 1. One headline even proclaimed concerns were “silly”.
ON International Women’s Day we need to be vigilant against a worldwide backlash against women’s rights.
MANY column inches have been expanded over the last 24 hours on the chaos that unfolded in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
NEXT week, it will be a year since Nicola Sturgeon’s surprise resignation as first minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP.
THERE has been so much news this week that the start of the passage of the Rwanda Bill through the House of Lords has been overshadowed. It faces a tight timetable just like it did in the House of Commons.
MANY column inches have been expended on the question of whether the SNP should sit in the Lords. I am clear we should not.
IT’S a measure of how low British politics has sunk that at Prime Minister’s Questions this week, the Prime Minister taunted the leader of the Opposition for having written a book about European human rights law.
LAST weekend a young Iranian woman of Kurdish origin called Roya Heshmati was lashed 74 times for “violating public morals” by refusing to wear the hijab. Her sentence together with a fine was court imposed.
