Alex Salmond needs to woo, not bully, the rest of the UK
When voters go to the poll in September’s referendum they deserve to know how Scotland’s ministers will respond if they can’t get their way.
Ed Jacobs
Ed writes on devolved and local government. He works as a political consultant at the only Northern based consultancy, The Public Affairs Company. Ed has previously helped establish and run a student news website therundown.co.uk.
Fears of return to the past as dissidents target UK mainland
Fears were growing last night that dissidents in Northern Ireland could be attempting to step up their efforts to derail the peace process.
The SNP are wrong on currency union
Whilst I’m no fan of the chancellor, what he will say tomorrow will be a perfectly rationale defence of the interests of the rest of the UK if Scotland voted for independence.
Scots more positive about immigration than rest of UK
Reducing immigration is of less concern across Scotland than it is elsewhere across the UK, according to new research.
SNP attack Cameron London speech as ‘cowardly’
David Cameron has been criticised by the SNP for delivering a major speech on Scottish independence in London, rather than Scotland.
The end of Christianity in the Middle East?
Ed Jacobs reviews ‘The Silence of Our Friends’, by Catholic Herald deputy editor Ed West.
Holyrood versus Whitehall on the Bedroom Tax
The Scottish and UK governments are on a collision course over the bedroom tax.
Bedroom tax ‘iniquitous and inhumane’, say MSPs
The bedroom tax “is iniquitous and inhumane and may well breach tenants’ human rights”, according to a new report.
AMs call for new members
A majority of Welsh Assembly members would like to see an increase in their numbers to cope with the ever increasing workload.
UK immigration policy ‘revolts’ Scottish minister
Scotland’s education secretary has claimed the UK’s immigration policy is “driven by UKIP and by a nasty xenophobia”.