Iain Macwhirter Now and Then

Long suffering readers of this blog will be pleased to know that it will soon cease to be. I have gravitated to the sunlit uplands of Wordpr...

In the wake of the former CIA analyst Edward Snowden's revelations about state surveillance, I thought I'd reread George Orwell...

Neil Kinnock made a speech before the 1983 general election in which he said: "I warn you not to be old. I warn you not to get sick. ...

He may not move the voters, but Ed Miliband has certainly rattled David Cameron's cage. The PM name checked Labour no fewer than 25 ti...

Is politics back in fashion? People like me have been moaning for years about how all the parties are the same at Westminster, crowding th...

It's not exactly been a happy pre-anniversary for the Yes Scotland campaign. Looking at the deluge of one-year-to-go opinion polls, th...

From Herald, 26/9/13 Reaction to Ed Miliband's plan to freeze energy prices has been, well, electric. Energy UK warned of “black-o...