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HERE’S a thought to cheer you all up – the Johnson Government…
IT seems fitting that a new preserving the Union get-together…
MY forecast for 2020? The new EU commissioner for trade, Phil…
THERE is TV footage shown occasionally (but not often enough) of…
THIS is not a column which has suddenly discovered Boris…
MORE than four million children are living in poverty in the UK.…
WE are up to our oxters in cold, wet November weather, but the…
THE Liberal Democrats are busy rewriting history during this…
TOMORROW marks Equal Pay Day. This is the date in the year when…
STEVE Bannon, the oracle of right-wing populism, thinks the Daily…
ORDER! Order! The dulcet tones of my good friend and former…
I’M relishing the Scottish courts’ no mess, no fuss method of…
IN 2020 Scots will commemorate the most important artefact of our…
‘STOP the world, Scotland wants to get on”.
IT is only 12 months since Ruth Davidson launched her ill fated…
LIFE is but a stage, Parliament provides the theatre and the…
DAVID Cameron contributed a public service this week by providing…
CAST your mind back to August.
IN a tale of four nations, there is less to unite and more to…
EVERY time Rip Van Gordon Brown emerges to make some new…
IT’S now a question of us and them.
ACCORDING to Trump’s former advisor, Steve Bannon, the…
LAST week, legendary Irish commentator Fintan O’Toole proposed…
I SEE Buccaneer Boris and his new crew of Brexiteers are trying…
IT probably wasn’t a great idea for Jo Swinson to have a go at…
IT looks as if, for once, Theresa May was first out of the Tory…
IN 2019, amid the clusterbourach of UK and global politics,…
IT’S hard not to worry about our future as the ghoulish circus…
YOU’VE got to hand it to Sajid Javid for cornering the other…
IT’S difficult to know where to start when listing the…
I SEE Boris Johnson is back to his old trick of promising the…
WHAT a way for Theresa May to end her prime ministerial days…
THAT vulgar Trumpian chant of “drain the swamp” has been…
IAM not a Game of Thrones devotee. However, I did watch just a…
WHEN Piers Morgan calls someone “authentic”, you know we’re…
I PROBABLY shouldn’t start a column in The National, talking…
DEAR Ruth
FOR most National readers, it would seem incredible that anyone,…
DAVID Lammy was right to call out the far-right so vociferously…
HERE’S an important statistic that’s been largely ignored in…
CAST your mind back to the morning of September 19, 2014.
SURELY one of the most farcical aspects of the current Brexit…
YESTERDAY, Facebook announced that no-one reported the video of…
THE death of Shamima Begum’s baby boy last week has shamed…
ACCORDING to the honourable member for the Middle Ages, Jacob…
WESTMINSTER is coming apart at the seams.
I SEE the Secretary in a State for Scotland, David Mundell, has…
IN the midst of all of this Brexit chaos, we all needed reminded…
MUCH of the focus on the failure in opposition to Brexit and the…
A POIGNANT report from the annual Church of Scotland Burns Supper in…
