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 ...

Sturgeon was exemplary during the Covid crisis, and is admired by many of us for her belief in equality for all, including ...

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, ...

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 ...

NICOLA STURGEON’S claim that Alex Salmond would rather have seen the SNP “destroyed” than have it succeed without him was ...

Frankly is Nicola Sturgeon’s bid to “reveal the person behind the politician”. As she puts it, “The seemingly confident, ...

Alas, we must live with the Nicola Sturgeon legacies and nobody has done more to foster small-mindedness in our politics,  mediocrity in our ...

I’ve been away from Edinburgh for the past few days and have missed most of the growing media circus around former first ...

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 ...

Publisher Pan Macmillan picked up the UK rights to Sturgeon’s book in a hotly contested auction in 2023. The company ...