Comment Wee Ginger Dug: Unopposed SNP leadership contest stops opposition from gloating
John Swinney has become leader of the SNP and is set to become the next first minister after nominations closed at noon today and he was the only candidate ...
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Paul Kavanagh is columnist for The National and blogger who writes and talks about Scottish independence, and the human face of the Wee Ginger Dug. He has been involved in the digital Scottish media since he was one of the founder members of Newsnet Scotland back in 2011.
Apart from the politics of an independent Scotland and the independence movement, he has an abiding interest in Scottish languages, maps, and place names.
Together with the dug, who is the real star of the show, Paul travels the length and breadth of Scotland giving public talks about independence.
Paul Kavanagh is columnist for The National and blogger who writes and talks about Scottish independence, and the human face of the Wee Ginger Dug. He has been involved in the digital Scottish media since he was one of the founder members of Newsnet Scotland back in 2011.
Apart from the politics of an independent Scotland and the independence movement, he has an abiding interest in Scottish languages, maps, and place names.
Together with the dug, who is the real star of the show, Paul travels the length and breadth of Scotland giving public talks about independence.
John Swinney has become leader of the SNP and is set to become the next first minister after nominations closed at noon today and he was the only candidate ...
OVER the past months, Labour's Scottish branch office has made much of its support for Waspi, the women who lost out due to changes to the retirement age for the state pension, with both Anas Sarwar and Jackie Baillie being photographed with campaigners - and making a big play of the branch office's support for their campaign for pension justice ...
FORMER Deputy First Minister John Swinney has announced his candidacy for the leadership of the SNP ...
YOU could almost feel sorry for Anas Sarwar, almost but not quite. There he was practicing his best sneery-face in the mirror like the Derek Zoolander of Scottish politics in preparation for his killer vote of no confidence in the Scottish Government ...
THE SNP leadership contest has only just started and yet even before any candidates have been officially announced, there are already concerning signs that it may turn into a similar unedifying recrimination fest as the last time round, which was so damaging.
THE only news in Scottish politics today is the resignation of Humza Yousaf – whose term in office lasted one year and 31 days ...
IT’S day two of the post-Bute Agreement Scottish Government and the question which dominates the media is whether the administration led by First Minister Humza Yousaf can survive ...
THE big news in Scottish politics today is, of course, the collapse of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens ...
IT has become commonplace in the media in Scotland for every initiative from the Scottish Government to be greeted with dire and apocalyptic warnings of catastrophe ...
THE High Court in London will hear a full case against the UK’s arms exports to Israel after a successful appeal ...
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