COMMENT John Nicolson: Keir Starmer is offering nothing for Scotland
IN a little more than a month, Keir Starmer will become Labour ’s seventh prime minister.
THE BIG READ
Scotland's proud history of welcoming immigrants doesn't align with this Union
I HAVE all my grandfather’s letters home from the Trenches to his mither in faraway Scotstoun. Crisp as the day she opened them, the pencilled lettering in his immaculate copperplate is now faded – calligraphy he’d learnt before leaving school aged 12 to work in the shipyards.
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John Nicolson: Here's what BBC Scotland's new director's priorities should be
John Nicolson, the SNP’s spokesperson for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport sets out the priorities for BBC Scotland’s new director, Steve Carson.
Comment
Jacob Rees-Mogg's fanciful plan endangers democracy and public health
SOME people find Jacob Rees-Mogg’s buffoonery funny. A political Laurel to Boris Johnson’s Hardy. But the plans he’s unveiled for Westminster’s return are anything but amusing.
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The Dominic Cummings scandal epitomises Westminster's toxic culture
I HAVE seldom witnessed in politics a more shameful episode than the Cummings affair. I’ve always thought Boris Johnson unprincipled and mendacious. But, when I watched him at his press conference, I was appalled – especially by his claim that Dominic Cummings followed his “instinct as a father”.
Political Stand with John Nicholson MSP: "Disorder! Disorder!"
I'M WRITING this in the House of Commons Library. I’ve just been in, with other new MPs, to see Mr Speaker in his very grand house.
