Tag Archives: Scottish Parliament

Devolution: 10 years on

Posted on 6th May 2009 by G W

I don’t have anything particularly noteworthy to say about it, but I wanted to mark the fact that ten years ago, Scotland voted in the first ever election in the newly-reformed Scottish Parliament. I was too young to vote in … Continue reading →

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Promissory notes

Posted on 22nd January 2009 by G W

There was an entertaining exchange during First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood today. Annabel Goldie, the Tory leader. thought she could snare Alex Salmond with a clever line of questioning regarding the status of Scottish banknotes. She succeeded in making headlines: … Continue reading →

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SNP executive: what now?

Posted on 4th May 2007 by G W

On the week of the 300th anniversary of the Union of the Parliaments, an explicitly separatist party came into a position of government in the mainland United Kingdom for the first time (Welsh parties are crap and don’t count). Still, … Continue reading →

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