Duncan Dunlop MSP on the failings of the child care system - Here's the powerful maiden speech on the Scottish child care system made by the Lib Dem MSP Duncan Dunlop. He was elected from the South of Scotland regi...

FLASHBACK: Reform’s David Bull Gives Sex Education Lesson - A 90s throwback…

Sanne Dijkstra-Downie’s maiden speech in the Scottish Parliamnt - Sanne spoke yesterday in the debate on Scotland’s energy.

Being usurped, Nigel Farage as Henry Bolingbroke to Kemi Badenoch’s Richard II - One of the problems Kemi Badenoch and the Tories face is that in large parts of the country voting Tory is seen as a wasted vote. This is a consequence of ...

Was Farage hacked? - The Independent reports that Labour has challenged Nigel Farage to disclose which authorities are investigating an alleged Russian hack linked to a £5 mil...

Humza Yousaf says Peter Murrell deserves ‘hefty’ sentence for embezzlement - Former first minister speaks out after SNP’s ex-chief executive pleaded guilty to stealing £400,000 from party - UK politics live – latest up...

The Great West Ham Fire Sale Begins - Stick or Twist - [image: Fire sale][image: Fire sale] *Note: I appreciate this won’t be of interesy to everyone, but it’s of great interest to me, which is why I’ve spent...

Slot Jackpots: Your Guide to Winning Big & Understanding Slots - I still remember the night I hit my first real slot jackpot. The flashing lights, the ringing bells, the sheer disbelief – it was an experience that hook...

Sunday Funnies... - I for one would have loved to see No7 come true!

Soi kèo Sporting Cristal vs Palmeiras, 05h00 ngày 06/05 - Soi kèo Sporting Cristal vs Palmeiras diễn ra vào lúc 05h00 ngày 06/05/2026 trong khuôn khổ Vòng 4, Bảng F Copa Libertadores. Hai đang bám đuổi sát sao về ...

Unibet Fined £10 Million for ‘Serious’ and ‘Significant’ Social Responsibility and AML Failings - Platinum Gaming Ltd, the parent company of Unibet and uk.bingo.com, has been fined a mammoth £10 million by the Gambling Commission for social responsibili...

Can the Green Surge come to Scotland? - Can the Green Surge come to Scotland? Sunday National, 26 October 2025 Gerry Hassan Zack Polanski’s recent election as leader of the Greens in England an...

Five Scottish Dishes You’ve Never Tried (But Should) - When people think of Scottish food, the same names always come up: haggis, shortbread, maybe a dram of whisky on the side. And while those classics deser...

Greens leader Larissa Waters on holding the Labor government to account — Australian Politics podcast - The new leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Larissa Waters from Queensland talks about her vision for the party, the challenges of a shifting politi...

Rebuilding a coalition for prosperity and success - Yesterday I talked about why US national income per head is double that of the EU and why the U.K. is only 20% above the EU. Since 2000 the U.K. has allowe...

Tesco forcing suppliers to go through price rises ‘line by line’ -

Stop treating the WSL like a second-class league -

Closing up shop - Anyone who used to regularly read UKPollingReport has presumably noticed it has been many months since I have updated it. You’ve probably already assumed t...

Markets latest: GameStop closes up 68% – as it happened - *All the latest as a wild week on Wall Street, which pitted Redditors against hedge funds, comes to a close.* Read more

‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage - Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than the govern...

Political OD Podcast 9: An uncertain legacy - [image: Stormont - Belfast - Northern Ireland] William Murphy [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)] There was an unprecedented reac...

The Twitterati are no Twits - Haven't blogged in ages, but been thinking about it for a bit recently. Mostly I've been on Twitter. Much more lurking than engaging, but there is some gol...

Hubris and conceit - Labour's David Martin has called for Labour and the SNP to start working towards a coalition at the next Holyrood election in 2021. It's hubris and it's h...

Anti-Communism Article Misses The Point - I read, with some enthusiasm, this article on the evils of communism. Marx’s philosophy promised to bring about universal equality, full liberation, and w...

THANK YOU *so much* - That's it - for the first time in 18-years I'm no longer an Elected Politician. THANK YOU *so much* to all those who have supported me :-))

- *This blog has moved to here, where the name has been changed to Turbulent Times. We are still publishing daily posts, covering a wide range of topical ...

"A quintessential matter of political judgment for Westminster..." - Last Friday, the Lord Advocate published the Scottish Government's intervention in the ongoing Brexit litigation before the UK Supreme Court. James Wolff...

Merry Christmas - My apologies for not posting for the past few months but I’ve had eye problems and being on the computer or iPad for any length of time is nigh impossi...

I can’t vote for Corbyn. I won’t leave the Labour party. - I do not want Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister. There are lots of ways of saying that and then dodging whether I’d vote Labour if he was our candidate fo...

Obat Tradisional Untuk Penyakit Stroke Yang Ampuh - Stroke merupakan penyakit yang sangat menakutkan, untunglah kini ada solusi alami untuk penyembuhan stroke melalui *obat tradisional stroke yang ampuh*. Ob...

RIP Benny Green – the boy who brought black Britain to a generation of schoolkids - IT'S perhaps no surprise that the death of Terry Sue-Patt, the actor who played Benny Green in the BBC school drama Grange Hill, is one of the most-read it...

For the UK media, the terrorists have already won - Guest post by Frank Fisher (@Frank_Fisher) There is a unanimity in the media today, a striking consistency across the papers and airwaves. Everywhere the...

Scottis Tories Unpopular Because of the Callous PM Who Deliberately Destroyed Our Industry & Killed Communities - This is to prove some ideas I have about the fall of the Conservative Party in Scotland (and thus of the apparent fall in support for market freedom ...

My New Fixie bike - My new fixie bike. It's in single speed mode at the moment, but I'll soon be trying it out in fixed gear (may God have mercy on my soul). If I can get the ...

Men, is your behaviour driving women out of politics? - Imagine you are in a meeting trying to make your case. How would you feel if, every time you opened your mouth to speak, somebody interrupted you before y...

Aaaaaand.... I'm back. - Just in case there's anyone around to see this, as of January 2014 I'm back and blogging again with a new page at http://politicallyrticulate.blogspot.co.u...

Newslinks for Sunday 22nd September 2013 - 10pm Update German Elections: Andrew Marshall's Live Blog: MERKEL WINS THIRD TERM: "Whether it’s a CDU government or a grand coalition, Merkel’s success pr...

Not Waving But Drowning - Apologies for lack of posts. Denham Senior has been hospitalised with a serious heart condition and blogging has therefore moved to the back seat. But to...

So long.... - Dear Readers, Thanks for supporting this blog over the last few years. Writing it has been an absolute pleasure, though the time has come to shut this part...

Eurozone: UK ready to back IMF bailouts - Britain is standing by to give more money to the IMF so that it can, in turn, lend more money to Eurozone countries like Greece, Italy or Spain who are str...

On being a woman in politics - A few things have recently been rattling around in my head which concern women in politics; I've been trying to gather some ideas as to why there aren't mo...

Bringing it all back home - The message of Tom Devine's book on Scottish emigration is ultimately a postive one. - Professor Tom Devine's To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora is one of the most important books written about Scotland in recent years. It d...

According to the Telegraph the riots are all down to teachers - I was left open mouthed, but not entirely surprised this morning when headlines started coming in that a teacher had been in court for looting. As a teache...

Favorite Plato Quotes - Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the f...

On the move - With a mighty thud, the Ledger has been slammed shut. Thanks for reading it. But it's not finished - far from it. As with other BBC journalist blogs, it is...

On the move - Thank you for reading my blog. It has now moved to a new home, with a fresh format. Visit my new page to see all of my expert analysis in one place. You ca...

Now for something completely different... - This is my last blog in this format. I'm getting a new picture and a new biography, but the good news is that you still get me - here....

931 down - It was an inspired conversation. What shall we call a blog written by someone called Betsan? How about ... Betsan's blog? 931 entries later, Betsan's blog ...

Moving on - Stephanomics is dead. Long live Stephanomics. Today's news is that this blog is moving to a new home with a fresh format. I know, change is hard, but they ...

Indygal LEAVES Holyrood - dignified to the end - *Of course I wasn't! As most folk know Parliament dissolved on Tuesday at midnight and us former MSPs had till midnight this Sunday to pack everything and ...

Greens' Hornet is buzzing - I can't really justify putting this on Better Nation. But it must live somewhere - today's News of the World has Patrick Harvie as Green Hornet....

The last post - This post marks a couple of milestones in the life of this blog. It's the fifth anniversary of this collection of enraging musings from your average pott...

Every Start Requires An End - For some time now (for which, read a year), I've been questioning the future of my blog, mainly as I've just felt uninspired, and at times just too tired t...

A New Beginning - This post is serving two functions. Firstly, it is a thank you to everyone who has read my ramblings over the past three years and voted for me in the Tot...

Could Dave be deprived after all? - Asks Mike Smithson. That's No 304 in John Rentoul's world famous series.

Nick Clegg's great betrayal - Nick Clegg has vowed to end the "two party system" which he believes has crippled politics and government. That's all good and well Nick, but you've blaste...

Caron's Musings: Where the Parties stand on Political Reform - Political reform was the theme of the day today as David Cameron and Gordon Brown responded to Nick Clegg's speech on the subject. This includes issues lik...

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