The SNP are not always to blame
Jim O’Neill says the SNP cannot be blamed for the failure of civil servants to correctly implement procedures in the Salmond case, but they, and the First Minister, do...
Let’s NOT talk about Brexit
In Jim O’Neill’s last missive before Christmas he reminds us that aside from Brexit there is a list of serious political problems to be solved, and ministers in both...
May in Fantasy Brexitland
Jim O’Neill gives his assessment of where the Brexit mess leaves Theresa May, Nicola Sturgeon and the fortunes of the Labour Party. The danger of writing a Brexit...
Swinney no more
Jim O’Neill responds to the extraordinary behaviour of John Swinney and the SNP following their defeat in parliament on primary school testing. Now we have it finally. The...
GERS spin doesn’t work
Jim O’Neill says the SNP spin over this week’s GERS figures can’t mask the blunt reality they show. No, I’m not talking about a football team from Sunny...
Happy birthday, NHS
Jim O’Neill assesses the health of the NHS in Scotland as we celebrate its 70th birthday. It is now 70 years since Nye Bevan had to “stuff doctors’...
“Sorry, we can’t find an ambulance”
Jim O’Neill returns from Oz to find the same faces overseeing the same failures in Scottish public services, and thinks New Zealand may have a better example to offer...