Alex Massie

Scotland’s climate change-related targets “are world leading” said Shona Robison, the deputy first minister, last week and “that is why the first minister is in

Holyrood does not do frissons of anticipation. Disappointment, yes, but not excitement. It is a placid parliament for a placid people. Yet there was, undeniably

Anyone with a scintilla of imagination or a soupçon of empathy can surely sympathise with the predicament in which Humza Yousaf and his family have found themselves in recent days. The first minister’s wife is Palestinian and his parents-in-law, ordinarily resident in Dundee, are trapped in Gaza.As

Let some things be put on the record: Humza Yousaf has responded to a week of ghastly, harrowing, news with commendable grace

Once upon a time, we Scots could console ourselves with the thought that what we might lack in numbers we made up for in quality. Never was this conceit more ob

Victories come but rarely these days for Humza Yousaf and the Scottish government, and even those that do arrive have a distinctly Pyrrhic quality. Take, for instance, last week’s Court of Session judgement that, yes, a biological male in possession of a gender recognition certificate (GRC) should l

Struggling public sector is paying the price for ministers’ expensive policy choices

*As interpreted by Alex Massie

Scottish Labour can grab the initiative from the SNP at the next general election, but only if it embraces reform

He told the inquiry that he did not delete WhatsApp messages on a ‘daily’ basis