It is very difficult to collect my thoughts into something coherent after four hours sleep in the last 48 hours, but these are heads of key issues to be developed later. I have no doubt that the Johnson government will very quickly become the most unpopular in UK political history. The ultra-hard Brexit he is […]

Quite possibly the most ungracious speech I have ever heard from Michael Gove. So much for uniting the country. Five years of vicious triumphalism and denigrating opposition loom. —————————————– The SNP vote share in Scotland is just higher than the Tory vote share in the UK. So if Johnson has just been given a resounding […]

Yesterday the Scottish Government published “Scotland’s Right to Choose“, its long heralded paper on the path to a new Independence referendum. It is a document riven by a basic intellectual flaw. It sets out in detail, and with helpful annexes, that Scotland is a historic nation with the absolute and inalienable right of self-determination, and […]