ONE of the seminal moments of the 2014 independence referendum campaign was when then Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy was pelted with an egg while campaigning in Kirkaldy.
I’M not a great fan of Remembrance Day commemorations – at least, not as they have evolved. In fact, I’m feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the current trend to romanticise the act of dying in wars perpetrated by the British state ...
THE defining photo/image of the 1997 devolution referendum campaign is surely that of the Saltire being raised on the top of Arthur’s Seat in the early dawn, after the Yes result was announced...
HANG on to your economic hats. On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves will present her long-awaited Budget. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will have to put up or shut up, after four months of faffing about and tying itself in political knots ...
WHAT is the future of the Alba Party following the passing of its founder and leader, Alex Salmond?
ALEX Salmond is no longer with us. What will history make of him? If anything is certain, it is that Salmond’s political legacy will be debated and fought over for decades to come – and for a reason that goes far beyond his complicated, flawed personality ...
THE world is trembling on the verge of a new oil war. The last global conflict over oil was back in 1973. It followed the Yom Kippur War, when Egypt successfully threw back the Israelis across the Suez Canal.
BACK in 1984, Edinburgh elected its first majority Labour council – then and still the capital’s most radical civic administration ...
KEIR Starmer has promised the Labour Party conference that he will “put rocket boosters” under the housebuilding programme in England. Alongside a commitment to make all UK electricity production green by 2030 – a stretch – this is Labour’s Big Idea. And like many a rocket booster, it is fated to explode on the launchpad ...
ONCE upon a time there was a great industrial nation that made things for the world. There was a time when most of Europe’s aircraft engines were manufactured in that country. There was a moment
