Very difficult to see how Labour don't select a woman (however defined) next time. And it's not as though they don't have some high profile women at the top of the party. Burnham would have zero chan… (View Post)

Not really. According to this article the SNP could, judging by opinion polling, have won a plurality of MPs in Scotland as far back as the late 70s. Certainly Scottish Labour have been worried about… (View Post)

The monarchy is not going anywhere, and neither are Scotland or Northern Ireland. This talk about it, here and elsewhere, is just displacement activity. Saw my first swifts of the year yesterday. Rea… (View Post)

The Scottish census has been a spectacular disaster and will have serious consequences for policy-making as the census returns are so important for providing the raw data on which decisions are made.… (View Post)

He isn't and you shouldn't post comments like that. (View Post)