Tag: nicola sturgeon

By Iain Bruce The First Minister at the recent SNP conference encouraged the faithful to go forth and multiply and ensure that there would be a...

Opinion by G.A.Ponsonby There was a cracking headline in the Herald newspaper a few days ago.  It read "Sturgeon set to be invited to tell...

Political commentator Iain Macwhirter has been in prolific mood in recent years. Apart from his newspaper columns, he has produced three books about Scotland's...

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

By a Newsnet.scot Reporter The Scottish National Party stands on the verge of the widely-predicted electoral 'tsunami', predicted to win 58 of the 61 Scottish...

Alex Bell reflects on the implications of a Lab/SNP pact The idea that Alex Salmond would sit round the UK Cabinet table in the event...

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...

By Jamie Wilson It should come as no surprise that the story of the Easter weekend, now christened ‘Project Smear’, arose in the immediate aftermath...

Commentary by Derek Bateman Je suis Nicola! (With heartfelt apologies to our massacred friends at Charlie Hebdo) How the fading British media has come unstuck over...

By G.A.Ponsonby and Newsnet.scot reporters A little bit of journalism died yesterday.  Its demise was confirmed in the Daily Telegraph on its front page just...