As recently as this weekend, the Scottish Government claimed that it has “made clear it accepts the Supreme Court ruling [in For Women Scotland] and is taking forward the detailed work ...

According to a new poll, fewer than a third of SNP voters even think independence is in the top three priorities facing Scotland. It’s only five points ahead of immigration in fourth place, ...

One must assume from reading the Sandie Peggie judgment that the tribunal was more concerned with discouraging further litigation than with giving full and fearless effect to the Equality Act. At ...

The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely ...

For several years now, this site has recorded how the SNP’s continued existence is now entirely dependent on UK state funding ...

We miss the days when this was parody, not “progressive” ideology. ? But we are where we are. And hey, it’s great news that ...

For lack of anything more interesting to write about, we thought we might do a monthly rundown of polling in the runup to next year’s Holyrood election, with seat projections from a neutral ...

Perhaps the key graphic from last night’s by-election in Caerphilly is this one (green means Plaid Cymru in the context of Wales): In the end, Plaid won pretty comfortably in what had been predicted ...

We should point out right at the start that a reader donated £12 back in the summer specifically to send us to Nicola Sturgeon’s book event in Bath last night. We assume it was someone we’d upset in ...

There’s an interesting piece in the Sunday Times today. They’re not the only ones. It’s hard to disagree with the views expressed in the piece by former Tory MSP Adam Tomkins. The Holyrood talent pool ...

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So this snuck out quietly at the bottom of page 2 of today’s Daily Record. And like, we suspect, most of Scotland, our response was “WHAT?” Peter Murrell has been very well paid for most of the last ...