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Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir Frankly, finally published today, is already looking like the most ill-advised autobiography since ...
The former first minister provides a compelling insight into the workings of her mind during the tumultuous events of the ...
An intriguing lesson from Scotland is that all parties should consider being less overtly unionist. The SNP’s opponents tried ...
Nicola Sturgeon has said one of her predecessors gave one of the finest speeches in Scottish history. In her book, Frankly, ...
NICOLA STURGEON’S claim that Alex Salmond would rather have seen the SNP “destroyed” than have it succeed without him was ...
Nicola Sturgeon has all the usual things she wants to achieve in her memoir: rumours to scotch, a legacy to spell out, and so ...
Frankly is Nicola Sturgeon’s bid to “reveal the person behind the politician”. As she puts it, “The seemingly confident, ...
Nicola Sturgeon’s “Stalinist” approach to leadership had “disastrous” consequences for the SNP, former SNP MP Joanna Cherry has told an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
She cites a period when she was subjected to “bullying of a sexual nature” by a male MSP (whom she doesn’t name) in her early ...
I was reminded of sitcom character Basil Fawlty. When asked an awkward question by a guest, he’d literally fall down, as if felled by a sniper’s bullet, only to bounce back on his feet with the ...
I’ve been away from Edinburgh for the past few days and have missed most of the growing media circus around former first ...
Publisher Pan Macmillan picked up the UK rights to Sturgeon’s book in a hotly contested auction in 2023. The company ...