Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is an elected politician with considerable talents and a formidable political record of campaigning and successful electioneering stretching back over three decades.

US Vice President Mike Pence used his speech at the Holocaust memorial last week to bang a war drum at Iran. It revealed a deplorable lack of dignity and understanding of the event, despite Pence’s efforts to appear solemn.

The dreadful case of Britain’s bravest cop, Stuart Outten, being attacked by machete wielding Muhammed Rodwen, has shocked the nation and should be the turning point in our soft justice system but please don’t hold your breath.

Manchester Utd's 2-0 home defeat to Burnley this week increased the pressure still further on under the cosh manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and led to renewed criticism of the club's owners. But even if Solskjaer is sacked, United will find it very hard to return to the position they were in a decade ago.

Sometimes Sputnik readers object to my regular depiction of the Tories...

We may have just had the coldest night of the year but the good news is that the snowflake culture of the UK is beginning to thaw and leading the defrosting is Ricky Gervais, Phillip Schofield, Piers Morgan and the brilliant Laurence Fox on Question Time.

The headline attached to the link to an RT America interview I gave this week is certainly provocative: “Let royals die & let Scotland leave!”

The landmark international nuclear accord with Iran is all but dead. President Trump torpedoed it back in May 2018 when he unilaterally withdrew the US. But it was the Europeans who moved this week to sink the deal.

Why do the Remainiacs who infest the Establishment hate our country so much? When are they going to understand that they are completely out of touch and disconnected from the majority of people in the UK?

The result of the Labour leadership contest is due to be announced on Saturday 4th April, Grand National day, which is quite appropriate as all five ‘runners’ have fallen at the very first fence.

Top Cops, Councillors and council officers who allowed 97 members of an Asian child abuse gang to continue to roam free and abuse and rape at least 57 young girls in Manchester, over a period of 15 years, should be in the dock to answer for their incompetence and an alleged cover-up of these heinous crimes.

The mass campaign to secure Scotland’s independence from Britainreached a watershed this weekend and I’m not referring to the constant rain which drenched the up to 100,000 of us who braved the widely predicted conditions to march through Glasgow on Saturday with hope in our hearts and a determination to succeed coursing through our veins.

The 19-second video published by the New York Times last week showing the moment an Iranian missile hit a passenger jet has prompted much social media skepticism.

Western intelligence claims about the airliner shoot-down by Iran have been proven correct – after the Iranian authorities owned up to the disaster.

Meghan and Harry are deluded, woke money grabbing fools.

A mobile phone video supposedly taken by an amateur bystander in Tehran purports to show the moment an Iranian air-defense missile hits the doomed civilian airliner.

Life teaches us all many lessons but one which sprang to mind the other day was the truism that ‘Blood makes you related but loyalty makes you family’.

Any hopes that 2020 would be a better year for the world were soon dashed by President Trump’s brutal drone attack on General Soleimani and his associates at Baghdad Airport in the early hours of 3rd January.

What a great start to 2020 with Trump showing Iran, in no uncertain terms, that he means business, and Ricky Gervais slapping down the ‘woke’ hypocrites of Hollywood.

From all over the country, from all walks of life, from all generations and from all progressive political parties and none over one hundred thousand ordinary Scots will do that extraordinary thing in the name of their children, their communities, their place of birth or choice of home – they will assemble in Glasgow and march for independence.