George Kerevan

1 month ago | thenational.scot | George Kerevan

ALL good things come to an end, and this is my last regular column for The National. In a decade of writing for the paper, I’ve scribbled more than 600,000 words – longer than War And Peace! It’s been an honour to have had the chance to address the national movement each Monday, on every subject from the state of the creaking UK economy to the imminent peril of global nuclear war. And, of course, the endless thread of what the movement needs to do next to achieve Scotland’s political freedom.

1 month ago | thenational.scot | George Kerevan

THE world changed suddenly and irrevocably on the night of August 23-24, 1939. Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia signed the infamous Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, which contained a secret protocol carving up eastern Europe between the two dictatorships, upending the continent’s precarious security arrangements. Within weeks, both Germany and the Soviet Union had invaded Poland. In October, the Red Army marched into independent Estonia.

2 months ago | thenational.scot | George Kerevan

LET’S start with a cheer  for Labour MP for Grangemouth, Brian Leishman – although he is in hot water with his Labour whips and may not to appreciate support from an old Nat like me. Brian has stood up courageously for the workers at the Petroineos Grangemouth oil refinery, who are about to be sent down the road with no help from the lacklustre Starmer government or its branch office at Holyrood.

2 months ago | thenational.scot | George Kerevan

Keir Starmer's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney is said to pull the strings in Downing Street LABOUR have just lost a third minister to sacking or resignation in barely seven months in office. Public health minister Andrew Gwynne was bumped by Prime Minister Keir Starmer after a newspaper revealed he had posted offensive WhatsApp messages, including some insulting his constituents. What? Have we lost our capacity to be shocked? The lesson is not simply Gwynne’s contempt for his voters.

2 months ago | thenational.scot | George Kerevan

THE Trump tariff wars have begun. How will the Scottish economy be affected? Are jobs at stake? And what can we do about it, if anything? Because it is certain that the Starmer government is clueless on how to respond. On Saturday, Trump followed through with his election promise to put import taxes on goods imported from Canada, Mexico and China, ostensibly in retaliation over immigrants and illegal drugs from those countries.