First Minister John Swinney recently warned that Holyrood’s “days are numbered” if Nigel Farage ever becomes Prime Minister. On the surface, it is an extraordinary claim that is dramatic, politically loaded, and almost certainly exaggerated. But dismissing it outright would overlook the genuine anxiety toward the future of Scottish politics...
These are strange times in the politics of European security. In Sweden, the NATO-lapdog, centre-right government is being criticised by the left for not being militaristic enough in its approach to security policy. There seems to be little...