Rishi Sunak may be on the point of acknowledging that economic progress is too slow to provide any kind of pre-election feelgood bounce for the Tories and stopping the boats is the impossibility it always was
People who want the Scottish Greens out of government can take inspiration from the Trotskyite and Tory entryists who joined Labour in 2015 to vote for Jeremy Corbyn
An intriguing item on last week’s Edinburgh Council agenda was an SNP amendment bemoaning a gap in finding a replacement for departing chief executive Andrew Kerr, suggesting a disaster akin to the ravens leaving the Tower of London.
I’m not a church goer, so I shouldn’t complain that the Church of Scotland is set to close around a third of its kirks as congregations dwindle to nothingness.
The Prime Minister must move to protect the party, and not his own time in power, when it comes to the timing of the next election, writes John McLellan.
The Court of Session ruling in favour of Glasgow’s low emission zone means Edinburgh’ Council will proceed with its plans for a similar city centre exclusion next June with greater certainty.
A motion to today’s Edinburgh Council meeting calls for the authority to declare a housing emergency, which is intriguing because one reason for the acute shortage is the lack of land in the council’s own development blueprint.
Politicians leaving their parties is nothing new, but with the defection of Edinburgh Eastern MSP Ash Regan to Alex Salmond’s renegade nationalist party Alba, the local SNP seems to have more departures than Waverley.
I have no idea if SNP MSPs have been “working with” the Scottish Conservatives in Holyrood, as Holyrood leader Douglas Ross claimed this week, but it depends on how the phrase is interpreted.
Perhaps it’s so obvious that council officials should not mislead councillors when providing crucial information involving millions of pounds that it doesn’t need to be spelt out.
With over 90 drug deaths a year, it was inevitable that plans to establish a legal drug consumption room in Edinburgh would quickly follow Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain confirming there would be no prosecutions at a pilot project in Glasgow.
He probably won’t remember the brief conversation, but shortly after the SNP took over in government, I bumped into John Swinney across the road from the Evening News’s Holyrood Road headquarters.
Of all the damning conclusions in Lord Hardie’s long-awaited and exhaustive report into the Edinburgh tram fiasco, one stood out; the recommendation of a new crime of misleading a public authority.