Alan Roden is the co-founder of Quantum Communications. He is a former communications director for Scottish Labour and was the political editor of the Scottish Daily Mail during the independence referendum campaign. He recently launched the justice publication 1919 Magazine.
Support for Nigel Farage’s party in Scotland is surging. This is despite the fact the Scottish group has no party leader, no parliamentarians and next to no operation on the ground. On his recent trip to Glasgow, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice struggled to explain any devolved policies and even failed to remember the names
This afternoon, Alex Salmond’s coffin, draped in a saltire, arrived in Scotland from North Macedonia. The chartered flight was paid for by Sir Tom Hunter, a billionaire philanthropist. ‘He deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth,’ Sir Tom wrote in a brief statement, praising the former first
