While I'm glad she's gone, I don't necessarily see it as bad news for nationalists. It all depends on who her replacement is. Despite her electoral success, Scotland under her leadersh… (View Post)

Because I like Scotland. It is, after England, my favourite country. I don't live there, but I'd like this to be a world in whuch one day I might, or one of my daughters might. And I don�… (View Post)

She's not really making a practical case for those values though, is she? Her defining mission was to chisel away the disadvantage of being poor - yet the poor are no better educated, are dying … (View Post)

I don't get the love for Sturgeon from lefties from England. Scotland has got worse by almost every measure since she's been in power. Economy, health, education - all have gone backwards r… (View Post)

I think it was yesterday. It was, I'm afraid, the first thing which came to mind when I heard the news. Huge credit to ohnotnow who has provided an example to us all of a gracious and witty clim… (View Post)