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

Whatever happened to COP28?

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

The Curse of WhatsApp

All change as Yousaf abandons “progressive taxation”

Israel enters the abyss

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"

The Christmas Tree Files

NatWoke: How banks use identity politics to launder their public image

Even Nigel Farage has the right to bank

The man who fell to earth

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

Scotland's for sale - cheap

Yousaf’s defacto Declaration of Independence is impossible to take seriously

The Grand Delusion

Instability follows inflation as night follows day

In praise of Boris - well, sort of

Everything's coming up roses for Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon agonistes

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

What to do about Gordon?

If Police Scotland is institutionally racist doesn't that make Sir Iain Livingstone the racist in chief?

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"

Humza Yousaf's big day ruined

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

What is Humza thinking?

Scotland is in a very dark place.

Keep religion out of politics

Yousaf the Yes Man may not be SNP leader for long

He’ll Be Back

PS: we've spent all the money

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?

Farewell Patrick Harvie?

If Humza Yousaf is the answer what is the question?

Who exactly are the bigots here?

The mystery of the missing first minister (audio)

She’s Gone!

The mystery of the missing First Minister

The Independence Dream is Over

That’s it folks

Moaning Millennials get the greatest cash windfall in history

Tom Nairn: the SNP’s favourite Marxist

Nicola Sturgeon: endgame

Will Nicola Sturgeon weather the trans rapist scandal?

Transwomen are not women any more.

All out war

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.

Section 35 and all that

Cancel culture and free speech

Owen Jones is not happy

Diary# the killer headache

Mille Grazie!

We need to talk about money

Can Sunak force trans people to change sex at the border?

Diary #6: Blowing hot and cold on climate change

Cancel culture exists - I proved it the hard way

Happy New Year, the energy crisis is over*