Fast broadband is a very important tool for the development of rural economies. So our Scottish Parliament member John Lamont asks a perfect...

SNP MSP Jamie Hepburn has tabled a Holyrood motion claiming that Venezuela has been "transformed" by President Hugo Chávez. His m...

Supper's ready said Mrs H in a voice redolent of Peter Gabriel and Genesis. A visit to the dentists with nothing much more than a spot o...

Last Wednesday Jim Hume (South of Scotland Lib Dem MSP asked when the Scottish Executive reporter’s findings in relation to the Fallago Ri...

So Alex Salmond has set out his minority government's programme for the coming year at the heart of which is the local income tax plan....

With a referendum on independence becomming an increasing inevitability it's interesting to muse on the way that any vote might operate ...

So first it's Wee Wendy and now Non-entity Nicol, you really couldn't make it up. Apparently the reason is he wants to spend more ti...

So Wee Wendy’s gone. Surprising in some ways because the whole row about her accepting donations was more about technicalities than it was a...

So the Scottish Broadcasting Commission has issued their interim report, somewhat anticlimactic, but then again what did we expect? Accordin...

Just when you think the SNP are controlling their urge to resist shooting themselves in the foot up pops Christopher Harvie MSP. Yesterday i...

BBC Newsnight on Tuesday ran a piece about whether there's anti Scottish feeling in England and vice versa. At the top of the piece the ...

All this talk about Berwick-Upon-Tweed becoming a part of Scotland again (The town has changed hands between the two nations at least 13 tim...

In March 2006 I wrote about the Runaway Gravy Train , prompted by George Reid, the Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament calling for ...

Donald J Trump - reality TV star, real estate developer, entertainment mogul, casino owner, the hairdresser’s friend, and son of a Scottish ...

Wendy Alexander would probably deny that she's clinging to the wreckage but that's certainly what it feels like. Her ability to hang...

The SNP have behaved just as one would have expected from a party trying to get into power and promised more than they can deliver. They als...

Back in August Alex Salmond announced his plans for a national conversation on independence. Since then the conversation has been all one si...

According to Scotland on Sunday Alex Salmond has launched ‘an audacious bid’ for Scotland to take part in talks at the UN aimed at ending th...

Not content with making their expenses work for them it seems many MSPs are now getting their family to work for them too, and we're pay...

Three years ago, just 8 per cent of people thought that the Scottish parliament had achieved "a lot" since its creation in 1999. N...