SCOT goes POP!

I've just caught up with David Cameron's interview on Scotland Tonight .  Although John MacKay is plainly nothing like as forensic a...

Sorry that blogging has been a bit sluggish of late, but I haven't been entirely idle. I have a new article at the International Busine...

From the Telegraph 's 'report' on the seemingly imminent resolution of the referendum stand-off - "Mr Cameron told the Co...

So, where to begin with David Cameron's "positive case for the union"? There's a lot of agreement that it's preferabl...

I was grateful to Stuart Dickson yesterday for forwarding me an article from behind the paywall, detailing the dismissal of the Scottish Tor...

There seems to be something about responding to Angus Robertson in the Commons that leads to David Cameron leaving his self-awareness at hom...

I seem to recall that in the run-up to the general election I made the point that, while on the whole a Labour-led government would be the l...

I wonder if I was the only person today who saw the headline "Prince William announces engagement" and then spent the remainder of...

David Cameron, in response to Angus Robertson's question about the likely closure of RAF Lossiemouth at PMQs - "If you had an ind...

I've just caught up with the first PMQs duel between Cameron and Miliband, and it was startling to see just how easily the new Labour le...

David Cameron's reference to the Megrahi release in his conference speech (courtesy of the Caledonian Mercury ) - "There are some...

What does David Cameron think he's doing ordering (for presumably he must have done) the British Ambassador in Washington to call the re...

I've always had very mixed views about Tommy Sheridan, but he certainly spoke for me and millions of others when he responded to an infa...

Back in the days when Paul Merton had his own Channel 4 show, he recounted the story of how a woman had reacted to someone advancing republi...

It was striking on News at Ten last night that the average 'worm rating' awarded by the panel of floating voters to each of the par...

It really comes to something when the leader of the British Conservative party appears to want the UK not just to adopt a presidential syste...

All this "invitation to join the government of Britain" business, the solemn launch against a stark industrial background, the ...

The 'non-denial denial' is of course a long-established staple of politics, with perhaps the classic of its kind being Michael Hesel...

We've heard a great deal in recent days - indeed for a lot longer than that - about how a Cameron government will show "respect for...

Looking around my old haunt today, I notice that many of the Conservative posters are spreading poison about the revelation that Gordon Brow...