Sitemap - 2023 - Iain Macwhirter's Substack
On Climate Change, the only fear is fear itself
Just wait till teachers discover they’re higher rate tax payers
Unworkable green policies don’t hasten Net Zero, they impede it
Dogs bark, cats miaow and Labour (doesn't) put up taxes.
Why Scottish politicians lose the plot over petty misdemeanours
Get real: there will be no ceasefire in Gaza
Insulate Scotland? It’s all hot air
All change as Yousaf abandons “progressive taxation”
Why Scottish independence? Humza Yousaf promises the answers
The SNP needs a new leader for new times
Starmer: the most conservative Labour leader since Hugh Gaitskell
The "Iron" Chancellor. Is this some kind of joke?
The SNP's hegemony over Scottish politics is over
Has the Tory Party finally turned fascist? It’s complicated
Inheritance tax is the only wealth tax that works
Did anyone seriously think 2030 would happen?
Politicians should avoid comedians - especially edgy ones
Careful what you wish for, Millennials
Starmer's lurch to the right stuns the left
Workers United will never be repeated
How generation rent became generation spent
Why are diseases of poverty on the increase in Scotland?
So I took a speed awareness course...
What’s the biggest obstacle to reaching Net Zero? The answer might surprise you
Starmer: "A woman is an adult human female"
NatWoke: How banks use identity politics to launder their public image
Even Nigel Farage has the right to bank
Decriminalisation of hard drugs in Scotland hasn't stopped people dying FREE TO READ
Dazed and Confused: Humza's First Hundred Days
Nicola Sturgeon turns the witness box into a soap box
Yousaf’s defacto Declaration of Independence is impossible to take seriously
Instability follows inflation as night follows day
In praise of Boris - well, sort of
Everything's coming up roses for Nicola Sturgeon
Should Nicola Sturgeon resign? Karma's a bitch.
Sturgeon is finally arrested and the SNP's political crisis deepens.
Yousaf talks rubbish about recycling
If Humza Yousaf can't sack Lorna Slater he's in office but not in power
Blues and twos - Police Scotland investigation could cost the SNP half its seats (Free to read)
How much public money will it take to finally sink Ferguson Marine?
Who's on the wrong side of history now?
Don't tell women what makes a woman - they were born that way
If revenge is a dish best served cold, Alex Salmond is dining in the deep freeze
Time to take a Stand against cultural censorship
Podcast: Sturgeon's Decline and Fall
Can you believe her? Should you believe her?
Senior SNP members believe Nicola Sturgeon's arrest is imminent
Deja vu about Humza Yousaf's governmental "reset"
Has Humza the chutzpah to save his scandal-prone government?
In the SNP, nothing is true and everything is possible
Self-ID: the hill Humza's chosen to die on
22 million tweets can't be wrong, according to Labour
Scotland is in a very dark place.
Yousaf the Yes Man may not be SNP leader for long
Nichola Sturgeon has destroyed her own reputation
Kate Forbes and the end of the independence dream
A million used to be serious money
Changed, changed utterly - the SNP is now a different party
Been there done that: some thoughts on the Gary Lineker affair.
Get Back: it’s ok to be Muslim but not Christian in the SNP
Yousaf the social progressive goes for the Nationalist G-spot
The Windsor EU deal is as good as it gets
Yousaf makes Self-ID the defining issue in his leadership bid. Why?
If Humza Yousaf is the answer what is the question?
Who exactly are the bigots here?
The mystery of the missing first minister (audio)
The mystery of the missing First Minister
The Independence Dream is Over
Moaning Millennials get the greatest cash windfall in history
Tom Nairn: the SNP’s favourite Marxist
Will Nicola Sturgeon weather the trans rapist scandal?
Transwomen are not women any more.
Fun with ChatGPT? Just don't ask the wrong questions
Sleaze: the original sin of the Conservative Party.
What is Nicola's game? Gender Wars with Iain Macwhirter and Observer columnist, Sonia Sodha.
Cancel culture and free speech
Can Sunak force trans people to change sex at the border?
Diary #6: Blowing hot and cold on climate change