THEY were debating the stupid economy at Holyrood yesterday morning. It's an important subject. There was even one person in the public gallery when I arrived.

My apologies for being off the air this morning. That is a good reason why you should subscribe to the RSS feed. The new webhost for the Wardman Wire - having had precisely one minute of downtime in 2008 on the server (Whitestar) where this blog now lives - goes down for 3 hours 36 minutes on about day 4: We have to perform an emergency reboot of one of our core switches early tomorrow morning. Th...

You know that everyone involved had been in Manchester for far too long - stewing in overheated, over-crowded hotel bars - when we are treated to minute by minute accounts of the chaotic circumstances surrounding the briefings on Ruth Kelly's resignation. One Peroni too many contributed to the chaos of the announcement The best and most even handed account by far this morning came from the Te...

The Scottish government's plans for minimum drink pricing are set to be defeated at Holyrood, despite a last-minute offer to save the measure.

At church yesterday morning, I observed the minute’s silence to remember the fallen in war, just like so

Holyrood Presiding Officer Tricia Marwick emerged smiling yesterday from a week of flak, as Scotland's political leaders found themselves hauled back into line.

Better procedures for ensuring ministers do not mislead Holyrood were yesterday urged by MSPs. The Scottish Parliament should work with the Scottish Government to draw up a "protocol" for dealing with this, Holyrood's Standards Committee said.

SCOTLAND'S £30 billion budget for the coming financial year will today be approved at Holyrood after a series of last-minute deals between the SNP and opposition parties.

Grudgingly, I would concede that the presiding officer is probably right. In banning the use of nicknames in the Holyrood chamber. Still, it might have livened up a notably dull session of questions to the first minister. As part of the customary badinage, the FM had labelled a Labour MSP "Seven Minute McNulty". I think it was a cheeky gag about the duration of a speech by Des McN, the member for ...

For a minute there, I thought that guy who tip toes on at one minute 31 seconds was Alan Milburn.