The entire Scottish media and professional-politician community is currently in a self-righteous froth about a campaign ad ...

Whoever advised John Swinney to do this should be tarred, feathered and fired. Because incredibly, the sheer abject ...

Ash Regan is one of a group of Scottish women who have been selected by God to make sure the rest of us behave ourselves. I ...

Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission.

We were a bit bemused by this yesterday. The Scottish Tory MSP reacted furiously to a story in The National which said Scotland had been absorbed into England by the 1707 Act Of Union, rather than ...

Don Paterson is a celebrated Scottish poet, writer and musician. The essay below comes from a new anthology of Scottish writers called Irish Pages: Scotland, and is reproduced with his permission.

The Cross Your Fingers Strategy for the umpteenth time. It’s ridiculous on another more important count: By simply accepting that the game’s a bogey due to the Supreme Court ruling that the Scottish ...

We were a bit bemused by this yesterday. The Scottish Tory MSP reacted furiously to a story in The National which said Scotland had been absorbed into England by the 1707 Act Of Union, rather than ...

Hi! I noticed, with very considerable amusement, your complaint last night that I hadn’t made a “substantive reply” to the ...

And someone who routinely lies, for effect we are told. There was an old republican on the radio last night defending Trump’s rhetoric. The interviewer was saying but some of what he says is mad, ...