Sitemap - 2022 - Iain Macwhirter's Substack

Si via pacem, para bellum

Happy Christmas

Diary #5: Cold news is old news

If you want to soak the rich you first need rich people to soak.

What we've learned from the Twitter Files

The tax that dare not speak its name

Is Nicola now on the wrong side of history?

Diary #3: Don’t Fear The Meter

Brown‘s Lords reform is destined for the long grass

Scotland’s Oil is back but Nicola doesn’t want it

Freedom of speech is whatever Elon Musk says it is

Diary. Week 2: The Evil Damp

The SNP’s Genderbread Border.

What Was She Thinking?

British Jobs For British Workers

Forget the Swiss option - it'll be 20 years before Britain talks seriously about the EU

Diary: Why does it feel so bloody cold? It's not even winter yet

New Tories, New Labour

Tech Bros Breaking Bad

Jeremy Hunt has an impossible task

Whatever happened to COP 27?

"Scotland's problem is not issuing its own currency but getting others to accept it"

Rising prices AND unemployment - how's about them apples

How left-wing Sweden turned far right. Iain Macwhirter talks to journalist Ivar Arpi of Svenska Dagbladet about the Swedish Democrats

Just let them in – send “illegals” to Scotland not Rwanda

Does Nicola Sturgeon believe transwomen are women? Apparently not

It's the bond markets, stupid

Can rich Rishi save the Tories from defeat?

Careful what you wish for, Keir.

Why is it all going so crazy?

The Gnomes of Zurich are back in charge.

Where does the British right go after Truss?

There's more to this than a botched budget.

No one expects the UK Supreme Court to agree to a referendum. But what if it did?

Tories detestable? They've been called a lot worse.

It's been a hell of ride

The Uses and Abuses of Referendums

Told you Boris's replacement would be worse

Could Keir govern without the SNP? There’s just a chance thanks, er, to the SNP

The melons have it: why the new right is built on the ruins of the old left

Coming soon