How the SNP paralysed Scotland

How the SNP paralysed Scotland

I attended my first Christmas party of the year this week, a noisy mix of hacks, flacks, business folk and pollsters. The booze flowed, connections were made and renewed, all was jolly, as it should be. Except… the conversation kept returning to the looming Holyrood election, and at that point the mood would drop. I’m probably approaching the age where the grisly epithet “veteran” starts being applied to me, and I can’t ever remember such dismal…