TEN years on from its launch The National has become, for me, a crucial part of the Scottish media landscape.
YES is dead. Most of what we veterans of 2014 think of as ‘the Yes movement’ is no longer fit for purpose. That was always inevitable, but the independence movement should embrace this reality because it is good for us. It is time to move on ...
THE cuts announced by the Scottish Government last week are a horrible backdrop to a looming Holyrood election campaign. What could the government have done differently or better? Let me give you three examples, though they all have an element of “if only ...”
YOU’RE not going to want to read what I’m about to write. That’s why it’s important...
The National had an interesting article on energy from Lesley Riddoch and response in the letters page from George Rennie.
It's been great to see The National this week turn the focus onto the risk that PFI is going to return. The paper has made a strong case for why PFI was an affront to democracy and efficient government. There is just one problem – PFI can't "return" in Scotland because it never went away.
IF the Scottish Government wants a magic wand solution in a single policy area which might help turn around widely negative perceptions about its performance, there is something the political class has simply missed.
There are no simple or comfortable answers to a political implosion. In fact there is no single, simple cause. The SNP just accumulated too many voters who had too much discontent.
AT the start of a week in which the European Court of Human Rights found Switzerland culpable for failing to act on climate change, Scotland is debating the future of oil ...
SCOTLAND can take pride in how we have responded to the war on Gaza.
