THE big news this week at Westminster has been the introduction of the Terminally Ill Adults (End Of Life) Bill – a private members’ bill being brought forward by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater.
I JOINED other MPs at a special remembrance service in the grounds of the Palace of Westminster last week ...
WE’RE now in the closing stages of the Tory leadership contest. With turnout thought to be low, the surviving two candidates have spent the last few days engaged not in the high-minded activity of winning over hearts and minds by trying to bring their visions to life, but rather by sniping viciously at one another ...
AS Keir Starmer reflects on his first few months in office as Prime Minister and the increasingly dilapidated fortunes of the party he leads, you might be forgiven for feeling a degree of pity. Well, perhaps not… but do at least spare a thought – however fleeting – for Anas Sarwar, who must be holding his head in his hands and wondering exactly what his line manager has planned for an encore.
SEVERAL days on from the news of Alex Salmond’s passing, it’s hard to think what else to add to the tributes already paid to the man who did more than anyone else to create the modern Scottish nationalist movement ...
IN football commentator parlance, last week was like deja vu all over again for those of us in the North East, after a UK Government once again declined to invest in carbon capture and storage at Peterhead.
KING Charles’s visit to Holyrood last Saturday to mark the 25th anniversary of devolution once again raised the question of the role of the monarchy in an independent Scotland – and indeed, whether it should have one at all ...
WELL, that didn’t take long, did it? Less than three months into Labour’s self-described mission-led, change-driven government and already, we can see they are treating their positions not as an opportunity to be leading a “government of service”, but as an opportunity for more self-service than you’d find at a Tesco checkout.
LABOUR’S plan to means test the Winter Fuel Allowance will hit around 860,000 pensioners in Scotland to the tune of £500 per household per year ...
A COUPLE of things have become very clear, very quickly – hopefully even to the most politically disinterested of folk – about the way Labour is choosing to present its political messages from Downing Street. Firstly, there’s the attempts to claim that having now “audited the books”, the finances of the UK Government are “much worse’ than they were expecting.
