I met Lord Mackay once. A real gentleman. And a very signifcant legal reformer - especially over family law. He's still going - 95 years old. (View Post)

I think Kate may still win. 1) Scots are not socially liberal - certainly no more so than the English. 2) The SNP are a mass membership party and the members, therefore, are more likely to be sociall… (View Post)

32 seems pretty young to have blown your political career. She can't very well untalk the talk. And if her views are unacceptable now, they will be unacceptable in any future leadership election. Sha… (View Post)

Apologies if this thought has been posted already - I think that Nicola Sturgeon may well be playing a long game and fully intends returning as SNP leader. After all, Alex Salmond had two separate te… (View Post)

SNP appear to be in a real bind. Humza is an obvious stone-cold vote-loser. Kate is personable and plausible but her views seem impossible to square with the SNP's, and Sturgeon's, project of contras… (View Post)