Witterings of a Weegiewarbler

I think we can, but we need improve its associated costs while we’re about it. The sad thing is it needn’t take public money, just public an...

Let’s consider a question I was asked recently, and to be honest, it sounded like it was a bit pointless at first blush. The question was si...

Even Maggie couldn’t truly be accused of being that shallow, but the current leader of the United Kingdom has this week categorically proven...

FFA, Fiscal Autonomy, Federalism, call it what you will. It started out that we Scot’s would be about a couple of billion a year in the hole...

I sat quietly, observing for most of the General Election campaign, partly because I was fairly confident that in Scotland there would be an...

Well, I didn’t do much writing during the GE, nevertheless I can express my limited delight at the result. I say “limited” for two reasons. ...

The results are in, Tory Majority. Much of the UK will be asking itself how the polls got it so wrong. Now that the election is over, we’ll ...

That’s really the only two words I can use to sum up either the Tory or Labour party manifestos. If you’d rather, ‘In Yer Dreams Mate’ might...

In the last 100 hours we’ve seen some rather dramatic election happenings. The machinations are utterly inconsequential to the English, but ...

No – really, they must be. Even they would realise it if they bothered to do joined up thinking, not just focusing on the next quarter or im...

I’m re-entering the Memo-Gate affair here, because for the life of me, I couldn't at first see how anyone could possibly expect it to be...

So, it’s finally started. The movement that will lead to independence for our nation has truly begun, and I suspect it’ll not end for a few ...

The truth will out, the old saying goes. And by jings, I think we’re seeing the evidence of that now. My-oh-my. How little they understand, ...

Regardless of the outcome of the vote on the 18th, today marks the day the Union died - again! I say again because I wrote a similarly title...

Son I just Wrote This by Stanley Odd Son I Voted Yes' Son I just wrote this I thought you might like to know That I chose to vote Y...

We heard it again last week, it’s been voiced before by MPs, top civil servants and several Lords a Leaping. Interestingly it would seem tha...