#Holyrood2026

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The unthinking

Now, if everybody will just empty their heads of all thought, Thom and his party loyalist pals will whip up a batch of instant 'Spirit of 2014' to fill the void. Won't that be wonderful!?

There is a letter in The National which I feel it necessary to reproduce in full before I comment on the content. First, however, I want to make it clear that it is the content I shall be commenting on and not the individual who wrote it. I don’t know this person other than through exchanges on social media and I have no interest in ‘attacking’ him. I state this because experience tells me that…

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The price of my vote

As one of those pro-independence voters cast aside by the SNP, I can say what would be the price of me even considering giving them my vote in the next Holyrood election.

Richard Walker is, of course, perfectly correct when he says we need to start working now to prevent “that 2026 Labour victory”. It is unfortunate that he uses the term “Labour” when he refers to British Labour in Scotland (BLiS). I would prefer that he lose altogether that distinction between or among the British parties squatting in the Scottish Parliament. But failing that, he should at least…