Indygal LEAVES Holyrood - dignified to the end 27 Mar 2011 | 11:20 am

Of course I wasn't! As most folk know Parliament dissolved on Tuesday at midnight and us former MSPs had till midnight this Sunday to pack everything and clear out our offices. Obviously those of us s...

How it all started ... 23 Mar 2011 | 10:59 am

NEW MSP SWORN IN AT HOLYROOD SCOTLAND MSP 12 Feb 2009 - 09:29 By Scott Macnab, Political Reporter, Press Association Scotland (ScotFile:News special) Page 1 Scotland's newest MSP was today formally...

Annie Lennox in parliament today 17 Mar 2011 | 07:44 am

Yes I did ask if I could be a backing singer for her. Well, you knew I wouldn't be able to resist. She was doing a photocall with women MSPs and gave us all T shirts so I suggested we could be her bac...

The last Wednesday 17 Mar 2011 | 07:38 am

So this is my last Wednesday as an MSP. I'm trying to get maudlin but I'm too busy! I remember Kenneth Gibson advising me to slow down, work less and give myself time to actually enjoy being an MSP. A...

Unemployment is a scourge 13 Mar 2011 | 10:10 pm

The text of a speech I made at SNP Conference yesterday welcoming jobs to Glasgow. Conference the cause of Independence brought me into the SNP but it wasn’t independence that first stoked my interes...

Glasgow City Council owes these workers 13 Mar 2011 | 10:03 pm

This is the text of the speech I made yesterday to SNP Conference about the way in which Glasgow City Council employees are being treated over the cancellation of the UKBA contract to house asylum see...

Well done Christie! 5 Mar 2011 | 07:19 am

Have I mentioned my niece Christie before? I'm not sure if I have! Well, I suppose I might have mentioned her and her brother Daniel once or twice. Anyway I do recall writing about how she more or le...

There are some vicious people in the world 25 Feb 2011 | 10:35 am

Some of you may have read my post last week about "M" an asylum seeker friend of mine who is at his very lowest ebb right now, despairing as he has to choose between being murdered in his home country...

Clutching at straws on trams fiasco 24 Feb 2011 | 12:17 pm

Had evidence session for Public Audit committee today on the fiasco that is the Trams!! The brass neck of the Labour and Tory parties was breathtaking. They voted FOR it. The SNP voted AGAINST it at b...

Birthdays 21 Feb 2011 | 12:51 pm