The SNP inner circle’s inability to learn has been a theme of much of my recent writing.

The “historic“ meeting in question was, as far as I am aware, the latest jaunt to Cardiff for the independence industry.

Today is Thursday 1 October.

IT wouldn’t be the run-up to SNP conference if there wasn’t some form of internal strife over independence strategy ...

Swinney and his lickspittle cabal are just taking the pish now. This is undeniable.

The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August

I have spent another frustrating and maddening morning reading comments like the above from idiots who have once again been duped into believing the SNP is actually doing something for Scotland’s caus...

A car-crash interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored has sparked fresh debate around the role of the media in enabling big tech firms

It is always tempting to assume that politicians are being stupid.

The SNP membership now faces an extremely serious test next month.

Despite having previously resolved that I was done with attending events and public speaking, I have today accepted a generous offer of a space at the Scottish Sovereignty Research Group (SSRG) Confer...

This all seems so familiar.

I wonder how many people realise what the real purpose of Steven Bonnar’s statement is. It is not what it first appears to be. It is not a suggested strategy for progressing Scotland’s cause, as many ...

The jaunt to Cardiff may not have been "wasted". But didn't achieve anything of significance. It hasn't progressed Scotland's cause in any way. The main thing to come out of it is that John Swinney no...

POLLING expert John Curtice has given his verdict on the significance of the historic meeting which saw the three devolved leaders sign an agreement…

SCOTS are being invited to choose names for two new ferries being built for the Northern Isles

I’ve been having great difficulty maintaining a semblance of objective composure for the past few days.

THE leaders of the UK’s devolved administrations will sign a landmark agreement on Monday aimed at putting pressure on Downing Street to hold…

Here we are, twelve years on from the sham referendum in 2014, and the self-styled ‘party of independence’ is arguing about whether it should discuss a strategy for restoring Scotland’s independence. ...

I’ve been a bit feverish over the last few days, so I wouldn’t have been at all surprised to wake up this morning only to find that I had dreamt all that stuff about Andy Burnham setting out condition...

The disjuncture between what is promised by conference and what is delivered by SNP governments may be the reef on which Swinney founders.

Every once in a while there’s a headline in The National which lifts the spirits of even a curmudgeonly old cynic such as myself.

The extraordinary footage echoes concerns raised by Byline Times over the sources and beneficiaries of money flowing into Farage’s party.

If I told you tomorrow, 3 September, was an important anniversary, I wonder how many of you would know what I’m referring to.

For a self-styled “political education officer”, James Gray exhibits a surprisingly misguided notion of the nature of his own party – ‘Scottish’ Labour.

Merriam-Webster defines ‘tipping point’ as:

Some common mistakes and misunderstandings put right by Stephen Duncan.

Swinney is just taking the pish now. No thought whatever has gone into drafting this Bill. And I mean none! It looks very much as if it was cobbled together overnight in response to anger about the co...

In his letter to The National (October conference will be a watershed moment for the SNP 28 August), Dan Wood provides a comprehensive - and very depressing - overview of the current dire plight of th...

Regular readers will know by now that I rarely, if ever, get excited about polls.

I was all set today to write something on my thoughts about what the independence movement could and should be doing right now.

My letter published in today's Sunday National.

I have recently remarked that there are signs suggesting some of the SNP loyalists were beginning to wake up to the fact that they have been duped by John Swinney and his accomplices.

QUESTIONS around the decision not to charge Nicola Sturgeon following a police investigation into the SNP “merit further scrutiny” – and…

Believe in Scotland has been campaigning for around seven years.

THE BBC has been criticised after the cost of First Minister John Swinney’s trip to the US featured as one of the main stories on the UK-wide News…

Well, are you?

After eight months of obstructionism from the Labour Friends of Israel government of the UK, tomorrow is the day on which the Scottish Court of Session will finally decide whether to go ahead with the...

JOHN Swinney is set to call for the “immediate establishment” of a constitutional convention to “marshal support” for Scottish independence,…

According to the cursory research I thought the matter merited, the practice of attaching special significance to the first 100 days of a new government began with Franklin D.

PACK THE GALLERY THIS THURSDAY! ​The UK government is trying to sideline distinct Scots Law to block our judicial review of the Palestine Action proscription. We cannot let English judicial decision...