Richard Walker

ONE of the first tweets from within the Trump team after his historic/disastrous (take your pick) election victory was enough to send shivers down the spine of anyone who believes in a free press and the value of good journalism ...

ALEX Salmond was a complicated man, as the torrent of tributes which followed his shocking and unexpected death at the weekend made clear.

SCOTLAND has for decades been the powerhouse of the UK while being denied any

EVERY week when I sit down to write this column, I promise myself it will be about something other than that carcass of what was once the Labour Party. Every week I have been forced by some new betrayal to break that promise. This week, of course, is no exception ...

OF all the possible solutions to the constitutional stalemate which is denying Scotland the democratic right to decide its own future, the idea put forward this week by former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale and former Yes chief strategist Stephen Noon

IT’S been a week for looking back ...

IF there is one sure way of telling that a political party is up to no good it is when they start moaning about how much it hurts them to impose whatever dreadful policy is necessary to save the economy ...

THE first SNP conference since the party’s poor performance at the General Election was at least successful in laying out the perils which lie in store if it continues to send out mixed messages to an increasingly confused public and disillusioned party members ...

IT doesn’t seem particularly long ago that SNP MPs and MSPs were regularly chastised as resembling robotic clones so desperately did they cling to the party line on every issue imaginable. If only that was still true in these more turbulent times ...

THE ramifications of Labour’s General Election victory are now becoming clear in Scotland, leaving at least 250,000 pensioners worse off in winter while keeping the door firmly bolted on the advantages independence would bring ...