It’s Wings’ 14th birthday today, and to be entirely honest with you, readers, like a lot of teenagers we’re having a bit of an existential crisis. It’s quite difficult to see any point in being a ...

Kevin McKenna has a piece in today’s Herald asking the question that is now the core issue for the Scottish independence movement. The short version of the answer is usually attributed to Mark Twain: ...

This really is an extraordinary headline, for multiple reasons. Because what actually IS “the rise of Reform”?

Perhaps the key graphic from last night’s by-election in Caerphilly is this one (green means Plaid Cymru in the context of Wales): In the end, Plaid won pretty comfortably in what had been ...

So that’s it, then. That’s the grand plan. We’re sorry, but we’d say the game’s a bogey, gang. Nicola Sturgeon took over as SNP leader (and therefore also ...

If there’s ever been a (branch office of a) political party that could somehow manage to blow it in Scotland against the burning trainwreck in a ditch full of sewage that is the SNP right now, it’s ...

As a journalist, readers, sometimes you want to pep a story up a bit. From time to time, it’s perfectly legitimate to sensationalise a relatively minor aspect of something in order to draw attention ...

Social media amused itself briefly tonight over a spat between former SNP MP (now independent) Natalie McGarry and children’s author and hedge enthusiast JK Rowling. Having needlessly dot-atted ...

There’s an excellent column by Mandy Rhodes in Holyrood Magazine today that says something we realised quite a long time ago. It’s simply this: Nicola Sturgeon is a disastrously weak leader. Among the ...