The formation of the coalition 100 days ago marked a galactic shift in Westminster politics. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats embarked on a journey together that many would never have predicted.

THE debate over the future of Scotland's energy policy was reignited yesterday after the Westminster coalition announced eight potential sites for nuclear power stations.

The coalition agreement’s commitment to devolve more powers from Westminster to Scotland was one aspect that helped it win strong support from Scottish Liberal Democrats as further devolution has been a long-running Lib Dem demand. Now the Scotland Bill is moving through Parliament to turn those commitments into action. The BBC reports: Scottish Secretary Michael

We keep hearing that Scotland is a no go area for Tories, certainly as far as Westminster is concerned. But what's this? When we look at the Scottish parliament, we find that the Tories are the third largest party - just ahead of former members of the Scottish coalition, the Lib Dems. And if the last election had been held using the new constituency boundaries, they might have got another thr...

A swathe of tax-raising powers is to be transferred from Westminster to the Scottish Parliament under the coalition deal agreed by David Cameron and Nick Clegg.

By Dimitris Tsarouhas A year and a half ago, Austrian politics returned to its stable pattern of grand coalition governments. Following the turbulence of the centre- and far-right coalition, the 2006 election result led to the formation of yet another coalition between the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples’ Party (ÖVP). Other than in Germany, however,

AFTER a run of rather dull years in politics, 2010 brought a new injection of drama. The UK has its first Westminster peacetime coalition since the 1930s.

At last, Westminster and the UK media have woken up to the reality that Scotland is sleepwalking towards independence. The phoney war is over and finally we may get some serious debate rather than evasion, insults and accusations of ‘talking Scotland down’. When the Scottish Liberal Democrats refused to form a coalition with the SNP

The Westminster New Labour regime is on to its third Secretary of State for Scotland since Alex Salmond became Prime Minister of Scotland. Angus Robertson, leader for the Scottish National Party at the Westminster parliament remarked: "Des Browne's departure shows just how much of a dog's dinner Gordon Brown has made of his reshuffle...It would have been far better to admit that the game is up for...

The new coalition Government at Westminster is looking to Scotland for clues on how best to regulate the police's use of DNA information. This gives us a long-overdue chan