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Here’s real reason for Boris Johnson dodging ordinary Scots voters

BORIS Johnson visited Scotland this week. The charlatan, who has…

The Unionists are scared stiff – it’s all falling apart for them

IT has been just over six months since the winter General…

Covid-19 still exists, we can’t all just go out if the sun shines

FORGIVE me a short, last-minute prologue, but as I was about to…

Mhairi Black: Now is perfect time to have reckoning with our history

THE last time I wrote for The National, we had just entered phase…

Mhairi Black: PM's mask has slipped ... he doesn't care about the public

THE First Minister announced on Thursday that we are finally…

Mhairi Black: Virus alert system could have worked but Tories blew it

ONCE again, we are facing a weekend in lockdown. This is hard,…

Mhairi Black: We need a universal basic income to solve this crisis

AS I’m writing this, we are about to enter our sixth weekend…

Mhairi Black: Is Westminster finally moving into the 21st century?

BEFORE I get into the main topic of my column, I hope you’ll…

Mhairi Black: Stay at home and save lives – it’s that simple

AT the time this is printed, we’ll have just started our second…

Why Boris will be the first and last ‘Minister for the Union’

BORIS Johnson arrogantly announced back in July last year that he…

Mhairi Black: The Tories have just made a great case for a Yes vote

IS there a greater example of Scotland being a different country…

Mhairi Black: No wonder Scots are changing their minds on independence

IT was proposed by David Cameron, when he was Prime Minister, as…

Mhairi Black: We didn't vote for this ... still we're ignored

THE Brexit Bill, or as it is formally known, the European Union…

Mhairi Black: Budget delay shows Scotland is just an afterthought in the UK

I THOUGHT it would be good to review some of the things that have…

Mhairi Black: The conversation on sexual abuse must not be silenced

IN November 2017 I wrote a column about the MeToo movement. In…

Mhairi Black: Westminster is summed up by stupid Queen’s Speech charade

PARLIAMENT is shut down again (legally this time, as far as I…

Mhairi Black: Johnson is no Hulk – he's more like a shameless bully

IF Brexit was a TV show, then this week you would have given up…

Mhairi Black: This is not on. Scotland just cannot be ignored any longer

HELLO! It’s been a while since I wrote one of these. Though,…

Mhairi Black: It's time to make sure Boris is Scotland’s last PM

BORIS “bum boys in tank tops” Johnson is now the leader of…

Mhairi Black: We have to highlight our parliaments’ differences

OVER the last few weeks we have been celebrating 20 years of…

Hunt’s record reads like a Tory greatest hits – and what’s with the Irn-Bru pic?

IN my previous column for The National, I got stuck into Boris…

Mhairi Black: Boris is a pompous, dangerous, offensive, crass, Trumpian liar

BORIS Johnson is now the most likely candidate to be the Prime…

Mhairi Black: ‘Generous’ billionaires aren’t a solution to wealth inequality

THIS week, Mackenzie Bezos pledged to donate half of her $37…

Mhairi Black: Failed Brexit talks a waste of everyone's time

AS we get ready for the European election next week, Brexit talks…

Mhairi Black: Saying I'm a hypocrite for working at Westminster is totally wrong

PREVIOUSLY on LOST...

Mhairi Black: Media nonsense is part of the climate change problem

THIS is an odd experience. I’m sitting down to write my column…

Mhairi Black: Labour is wrong on freedom of movement – it’s great for us

I KNOW it’s not really the done thing to split newspaper…

Mhairi Black: Where to start? The UK system is totally broken

BEFORE delving into the latest ridiculous developments in…

Mhairi Black: It's delusional to say there is no mandate to hold indyref2

OVER the last couple of weeks the British establishment has…

Mhairi Black: I respect the MPs who quit, but I don't agree with them

SO, The Independent Group.

Mhairi Black: We need to stop Brexit distractions like ‘Hell-gate’

THERE is often a lot of faux outrage in politics. A lot of…

Mhairi Black: The independence lifeboat has never looked more attractive

SO, the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal was voted down. It…

Mhairi Black: The Prime Minister misleads us on Brexit every single time

PARLIAMENT returned this week after the Christmas break. And what…

Mhairi Black: 'That was so 2018' – what a total shambles of a year

I AM sure that in my column this time last year, I stated that I…

Mhairi Black: Scotland deserves better than May and Corbyn's cowardice

I STARTED my last National column with: “It has been another…

This is why I won’t vote for Theresa May's rotten Brexit deal

IT has been another couple of nightmare weeks for Prime Minister…

Mhairi Black: HMS Brexit is sunk – time to launch indy lifeboat

ONLY a fool would sit on the deck of a sinking ship forlornly…

Mhairi Black: Austerity isn't over ... despite what the Tories say

ON Thursday this week I had the opportunity to deliver a speech…

Mhairi Black: Tories know Universal Credit causes harm despite their speeches

SOME of us may be used to the Tories ignoring expert advice and…

Mhairi Black: Austerity isn't ending, there's more misery to come

WE are in the midst of conference season. Labour’s conference…

Mhairi Black: GERS figures just prove Scotland’s interests are poorly served by the Union

THE annual campaign to make the Scottish economy look bad and…

Mhairi Black: The hoods are off as fascism shows its face in public in the United States

THE news from Barcelona is simply shocking. Yet again a motor…

Mhairi Black: Has anybody worked out what Labour's position on leaving the EU actually is?

IT’S been a couple of weeks since my last column and a lot of…

Mhairi Black: A week of good news for Scotland has left Unionists exposed on the UK's failings

‘GET on with the day job” is the constant cry from Unionist…

Mhairi Black: Now we see what Tories really think of our brave 999 workers

FROM the terror attacks on the London bridges and at the Finsbury…

Mhairi Black: It's a disgrace that failed Tory candidates can sneak into Government via the House of Lords

I’VE written about the archaic House of Lords on a few…

Mhairi Black: Anything is possible in these interesting times

WE certainly live in interesting times.

Mhairi Black: An attack intended to divide us only brought us together

EVERY time I go to see a band, I’m full of excitement,…

Mhairi Black: This election is about one big question — who can we trust with our future?

THE main dividing line in the UK General Election is becoming…

Mhairi Black: Forget Corbyn taking us back to the 70s, the Tories will take us back to the 1870s!

THE latest Labour fiasco, in which someone within the leadership…