Tag: Jim Murphy

By G.A.Ponsonby What is Scottish Labour policy on the council tax freeze?  I have to admit that I don't know. I don't think anyone does....

Commentary by Hugh Kerr The SNP conference is taking place in Aberdeen next weekend. On the face of it, this will likely be a loyalist...

Newspaper columnist Iain Macwhirter has rushed out a new book - Tsunami - covering the general election campaign. Below is an extract, covering erstwhile Scottish...

As Jim Murphy prepares to stand down as Scottish Labour leader, Citizen Cuddis reveals what happened when Question Time staff recorded a special one-man...

By Thomas Connolly Failed Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy finally bowed to the inevitable and agreed to resign from his post next month. Murphy, whose intervention...

Jamie Wilson reflects on Jim Murphy's megaphone diplomacy and its latest bout of "robust debate" in Glasgow's St Enoch Square From a Labour perspective, it’s...

Professor John Robertson brings his last-but-one analysis of election-time TV news, a week before the May 7 poll. The prof's slightly more academic analysis -...

By Derek Bateman A week to go and is there any doubt? Of course there is. This is an election, not an opinion poll and...

Professor John Robertson reviews the TV news Scotland’s Happy GPs and It’s not a black hole, BBC! Show some restraint…like STV! Foreword: Increasingly, the comments below...

Commentary by Derek Bateman FFA!…can you imagine a country where the desire to raise and spend your own taxes is a horror to be feared?...