Tag: ruth davidson
Split ahoy for Scottish Tories?
Molly Pollock takes a look at rumblings in Scottish Tory ranks, contemplating it seems it may be time for a break with...
Ruth Davidson acts as Salmond’s spokesperson at FMQs
Salmond's conspiracy clique gains The Baroness as spokesperson to recite David Davis' false claims under Westminster parliamentary privilege. The Scottish parliament does...
Opinion polls, referendum timing and the Stockholm syndrome
Commentary by Iain Bruce
It’s difficult to know how many “interesting times” we can inhabit simultaneously but the circumstances of the next referendum takes interesting...
Cute SNP budget undermines Labour and Tory case for prosecution
Commentary by Derek Bateman
The SNP ain’t half cute when it comes to strategy. Sure, you can argue they got the Brexit Means Indyref2 case...
The SNP has a cause: it’s time that we heard it...
Commentary by Derek Bateman
Haven’t written for a while – I’ve been doing the day job. I’ve also been preparing to go on holiday and...
Dead lady stumbling, the Colonel in fatigues and Borders warfare
Commentary by Russell Bruce
One thing is clear from the general election outcome – May cannot survive as Prime Minister for long. The questions are...
The after-party hangover and that terrible feeling of regret
Commentary by Carolyn McCole
For Teresa May, this must feel like the morning after a bad party. Going in with the expectation of making more...
Cuddis election special 2: Why can’t Tories just leave me alone?
Citizen Caddis concludes his one-man election mission to explain
For the second time this month, our postie violated the airspace of my lobby by poking yet...
How the Tories gamed devolution and why we can’t let them...
Commentary by Christopher Silver
In 2007 I overheard a conversation in an Edinburgh pub on the politics of devolution. This was, as I recall, an...
One nation Scottish Toryism supplanted by the cold stridency of Ruth...
Commentary by Derek Bateman
What went wrong with the Tories? There was a time when it was respectable, normal even, to regard the Conservatives as...