Iain Macwhirter
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IAIN MACWHIRTER'S FINAL COLUMN: ‘The world has turned and I must turn with it. It’s been a hell of a ride’
In late 1999, when I returned from London to help launch the Sunday Herald, everyone told me I was mad. “It’ll no’ last six months” was the… → Read More
Scotland's falling population makes independence even more difficult
SCOTLAND is to lose nearly a million people over the coming decades according to the Scottish Fiscal Commission. That’s 16 of the population, far… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: The world gas price is rigged. So why not use our own?
“EVEN if we’re to extract every last drop of oil and gas from the North Sea,” said the Scottish Net Zero Secretary Michael Mathieson last… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: The left know that nationalising major energy companies would be nigh impossible
Why are politicians all talking nonsense right now?We’ve reached the Talking Heads moment in the energy crisis: the moment when everyone decides… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Crisis what crisis? Scots splash their cash on houses
Have Scots suddenly discovered heaps of cash behind the sofa? Have lots of wealthy Scots been leaving money in their wills? Do buyers know something… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Don't refuse to pay energy bills. They'll get you in the end
I HAVE much sympathy for the Don't Pay UK campaign which now claims to have 100,000 supporters. When Bulb phoned me in April, months before the… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Furlough worked for the pandemic, why not the energy crisis?
AS the politicians bicker and point fingers, there is a pretty obvious solution to the energy crisis about to hit Scotland especially hard this… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: The UK is becoming a poor country – so get used to it, or leave
Seems Boris Johnson got out just in time. Last week, the Governor of the Bank of England placed a bomb under the Tory leadership race by forecasting… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Did anyone ever think Truss was going to listen to Sturgeon?
TORY Party members haven't had a lot to cheer about during this leadership campaign. Except, that is, on Monday in Exeter, when they cheered to the… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Human hand grenade Liz Truss would lead the Tories to their worst defeat since 1997
It started as a demolition derby and turned into a weird version of The X Factor for Margaret Thatcher tribute acts. In this fractious Tory… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Think Tories were the nasty party under Boris? Well, watch what comes next
Few tears are being shed at the departure of the Lord of Misrule from Downing Street. Though deep in the bowels of Bute House there is the faint… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: The SNP will be rejoicing at Starmer's hard Brexit line
"MAKE Brexit Work” sounds like one of Boris Johnson's test slogans for the next General Election. In fact it is now Labour's headline policy… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: The SNP are beginning to realise that Nicola Sturgeon's legal route leads nowhere fast
There was jubilation in the nationalist movement on Tuesday after Nicola Sturgeon unveiled her new route map to independence. Some thought it was a… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: 'If Putin was a woman' assumption is patronising and sexist
BORIS Johnson thinks the war in Ukraine is about “toxic masculinity”. He told reporters at the G7 that, “If Putin had been a women I don’t… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: SNP partly to blame for Brexit bourach
DURING her Indyref launch on Tuesday, Nicola Sturgeon opined that Brexit could have been, if not a roaring success, certainly much less of a burach… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: An austerity spending review is certainly a strange way to launch Indyref2
How does the SNP get away with it? Last week’s spending review was an exercise in what can only be described as fiscal austerity. Yet the media… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Ukraine's struggle puts our national debate into perspective
“SHEN nerve maare-low oo-cry-enee”. That’s the phonetic version of the start of the Ukrainian national anthem. It roughly translates as… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: How Boris Johnson turned Tory economics upside down
SHORTLY after Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, and especially during the pandemic, it became clear to me that he was not a conventional… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: Scotland's newly-nationalised rail service is already in a death spiral
How will a worker on average pay feel about not being able to get to or from work because of a strike by train drivers who earn £52,000 a year… → Read More
Iain Macwhirter: What could FM do about cost of living other than blame Brexit?
WHAT can the Scottish Government do to help combat the inflating cost of living? Quite a lot actually. Nicola Sturgeon says the UK should take… → Read More