As the UK government moves into the critical second phase of the Brexit negotiations, and with just ten months to go before a deal is due to be in place between the UK and EU, time is running out to prevent the unprecedented economic catastrophe of an extreme Tory Brexit.

It’s more than a decade since David Cameron hugged a husky and urged people to ‘Vote Blue, Go Green’ – yet the Tory record on the environment has never matched this rhetoric.

The year ahead has the potential to be one of the most significant in Scotland’s recent history. I believe that it will be a year in which a new Scotland continues to emerge – an emboldened, more confident and more assertive nation.

Nepotism is known to be common in politics.

But we could see it particularly clearly last week when right-wing commentator Toby Young was given a position with the UK Government as a board member of a new universities regulator.

Happy New Year!

As you read this – maybe like me – you are thinking about some New Year’s resolutions. In politics, politicians make resolutions all the time.