Alan Cochrane at the Telegraph is dreaming wistfully of the day when Alex Salmond finally comes a cropper: However, there are clear signs that Mr Salmond's run of success may be grinding to a halt. His plans to replace council tax with a local income tax has been widely ridiculed… read more…

David Cameron has taken the logic of unseen Tory politicians to its natural conclusion - he's appointed a former spy, Andrew Fulton, as chairman of the party in Scotland: Last year, Mr Fulton, who lives in Glasgow, became the first former spy to join a listed British company when he… read more…

News reaches us via the Spectator CoffeeHouse and Liberal Democrat Voice that the media may have an opportunity to scalp a politician over the "dodgy donations" fiasco afterall. Charlie Gordon MSP is in further trouble over the now notorious Paul Green donation for £1.67p: the Daily Record reports that Green… read more…

In case you've been living under a rock (or reading London Lite) for the past couple of days, you won't have failed to notice that there's a baying mob outside the front door of ol' Wendy Alexander. Will she go? Maybe. The Tories want her out certainly as it's quite… read more…

The Telegraph is reporting that they have proof that Wendy Alexander, the leader of the Scottish Labour Party, was more than aware of the illegal donation from Paul Green in spite of her protestations that she only found out about the personal contribution to her campaign yesterday. Green, a tax exile, is… read more…

Fraser Nelson's got an interesting interview with Alex Salmond (Scotland's answer to Judge John Deed - he's a maverick, doncha know) in this week's Spectator. Inter alia, it's revealed that Alex quite wants the Tories to win the next election as there's more chance of the SNP winning a referendum on independence… read more…

The SNP yesterday celebrated their first budget by reneging on most of the promises that put them in the position of power which entitles them to make it. The jibbing of the students over the non-wipeout of their debt was a particularly classy move ("uhhh, it might be a bit… read more…

Nick Robinson's somewhat confused at the proposals mooted by Sir Malcolm Rifkind to drive the Scots out of Parliament with torches and pitchforks give more adequate representation to MPs representing English constituencies. "Wouldn't this proposal, if it were in operation now, mean that Gordon Brown had no Commons majority for Labour's… read more…

Because political discourse can never have too many Simpsons analogies, allow Westmonster to draw her readers' attentions to this episode where Homer decides to run for the position of Sanitation Commissioner. He wins a landslide, under the slogan "Can't Someone Else Do It?" and a manifesto commitment that his garbage men will… read more…

Oh dear. It looks like wee Dougie Alexander is in trouble again. Less than a month after he (along with Balls and Miliband the Even Younger) was fingered for Chickengate, the Gould report highlights a "notable level of party self-interest in Ministerial decision making" which contributed to the disenfranchising of thousands of Scottish… read more…