SNP grassroots members have reacted with fury to plans to give Scottish Greens co-leader Gillian Mackay a platform at the party's Aberdeen conference.

A KEY figure in the SNP’s independence strategy debate has hit back at critics who branded his faction’s plans “vanilla”.

AN SNP pressure group set up to push the party to “reprioritise its core mission” of Scottish independence will hold its first event during the party’s conference in Aberdeen ...

You’d have to be both blind and deaf to miss the rise of the far right in our communities… of course they don’t like to be labelled far right, they much prefer the title “concerned parents” or “not fa...

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IT is becoming an almost annual ritual, The SNP releases its draft conference agenda, members look at it, members are unhappy, then come the…

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Lord Peter Mandelson is currently under investigation by UK police and EU anti-fraud officers on suspicion of offences committed in public office.

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MY party colleague and friend Luke Buchan recently argued in these pages that support for the oil and gas industry is not a right-wing position. I…

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I WAS shocked by the fall out from former deputy first minister Kate Forbes attending a recent conference ...

Why We Must Become a Broad Church Again

You’ll often hear those on the political right refer to migrants as “fighting-age men”…

AS A former colleague of mine, I usually enjoy Tommy Sheppard’s ­columns. However, in ­musing about energy policy and why the SNP lost last week…

AKA What happens when a Party starts believing its own spin

YOU could hardly miss the by-elections held last week. Before getting into the results themselves, a note of caution is necessary

Nigel Farage said so...

AKA What happens when a Party starts believing its own spin

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One of the stranger features of Britain’s asylum debate is how often ordinary items are presented as evidence of “luxury living” that some Brits can’t afford.

One of the most repeated phrases in Britain’s immigration debate is the claim that asylum seekers are being housed in “4 & 5-star hotels.” It sounds outrageous, conjuring images of Luxury, Comfort, Ho...