This “baptism of fire” drew him even closer to politics. When he was elected ... puffing away at a cigarette would be quite nice.“ Scotland's first minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon ...

Most of the better-known political insults were, to the best of my recollection, not called out as “unparliamentary language” ...

The by-election triumph at Hamilton - one of the most famous victories in Scottish political history - was no flash in the pan. In 1974, Ewing famously defeated the then Scottish Secretary ...

Thus, Michael Foot’s famous insult about Norman Tebbit as having the mores ... it’s difficult to see the kind of breakthrough he’s talking about becoming a fact of Scottish political life.