It's statistically inevitable (or highly likely at least) that a few readers of this blog are residents of the Coatbridge South ward.  If you're one of them, and if you haven't voted SNP in today's by-election yet, please do us all a favour and pay a trip to your local polling station before 10pm.  This is an unusually important contest because the SNP and Labour are so evenly matched on...

As Storm Ali approaches, I read in today’s Herald: ‘Storm grows over £45 loan to Sturgeon’s adviser’s ferry firm’ It’s fitting that the Herald headline writer should go for the stormy metaphor though it seems to have blown a million… Continue reading →

As Storm Ali approaches, I read in today’s Herald: ‘Storm grows over £45 loan to Sturgeon’s adviser’s ferry firm’ It’s fitting that the Herald headline writer should go for the stormy metaphor though it seems to have blown a million… Continue reading →