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I THOUGHT it would be good to review some of the things that have…
IN November 2017 I wrote a column about the MeToo movement. In…
PARLIAMENT is shut down again (legally this time, as far as I…
IF Brexit was a TV show, then this week you would have given up…
HELLO! It’s been a while since I wrote one of these. Though,…
BORIS “bum boys in tank tops” Johnson is now the leader of…
OVER the last few weeks we have been celebrating 20 years of…
IN my previous column for The National, I got stuck into Boris…
BORIS Johnson is now the most likely candidate to be the Prime…
THIS week, Mackenzie Bezos pledged to donate half of her $37…
AS we get ready for the European election next week, Brexit talks…
PREVIOUSLY on LOST...
THIS is an odd experience. I’m sitting down to write my column…
I KNOW it’s not really the done thing to split newspaper…
BEFORE delving into the latest ridiculous developments in…
OVER the last couple of weeks the British establishment has…
SO, The Independent Group.
THERE is often a lot of faux outrage in politics. A lot of…
SO, the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal was voted down. It…
PARLIAMENT returned this week after the Christmas break. And what…
I AM sure that in my column this time last year, I stated that I…
I STARTED my last National column with: “It has been another…
IT has been another couple of nightmare weeks for Prime Minister…
ONLY a fool would sit on the deck of a sinking ship forlornly…
ON Thursday this week I had the opportunity to deliver a speech…
SOME of us may be used to the Tories ignoring expert advice and…
WE are in the midst of conference season. Labour’s conference…
THE annual campaign to make the Scottish economy look bad and…
THE news from Barcelona is simply shocking. Yet again a motor…
IT’S been a couple of weeks since my last column and a lot of…
‘GET on with the day job” is the constant cry from Unionist…
FROM the terror attacks on the London bridges and at the Finsbury…
I’VE written about the archaic House of Lords on a few…
WE certainly live in interesting times.
EVERY time I go to see a band, I’m full of excitement,…
THE main dividing line in the UK General Election is becoming…
THE latest Labour fiasco, in which someone within the leadership…
IT seems political strategists try to invent a new approach or idea…
AS a politician, you sometimes have to do a photoshoot which you…
I’VE always heard people use the phrase ‘turkeys voting for…
AS you’re reading this the postal ballot papers for the council…
AS an MP my job consists mainly of arguing against, amending and…
SO that’s it official. We’re heading out of the European…
ONE of the problems with a rolling 24-hour news service is that…
THE one topic on everyone’s lips this week was the First…
USUALLY at this time of year, with an election looming in May – as…
LAST Saturday I woke up as normal, carried on with my normal…
THE point of any social security system is to help those who need…
AN important issue is being raised in Parliament next week by my…
THERE’S no way I can avoid raising the issue of Paisley’s bid…
