“The truth is, in their heart most on the Scottish Liberal Democrat, Scottish Labour and Scottish Conservative benches hate the SNP because they ain’t the SNP. Independence aside, they love the party and would emulate it if they could.”
Scottish politics
“Currently, young voices in Scotland have come out in reaction to injustice, but in an almost wholly transitory manner. Nevertheless, our voices could be a permanent part of our political discourse.”
Common Weal Youth: Politically engaging young people will enrich our democracy
The Scottish Household Survey has just been published. This data provides the most detailed account of the demographic make-up of Scotland’s communities, and how it has changed over time. It also provides information on people’s views and beliefs on a number of issues, from climate change to religious belonging. Here, we will focus on what the […]
Scotland’s communities: divided by money
“Saying ‘that’s for after independence’ or ‘just tell them we’ll be using money’ or ‘look at all these other countries’ is exactly how we lose again. Try it out for yourself if you can stand the humiliation.”
Robin McAlpine: This is why we’re not ready to fight an independence referendum – but can be
“The argument that Scottish Labour can or does represent a hope for the Scottish Left hinges, unwittingly or otherwise, on the belief that such hope cannot exist anywhere else.”
Sean Bell: Imagine there’s no Scottish Labour – it’s easy if you try
“At the centre of this web of crank economics, jumbled alliance-mongering, and meaningless exhortations to the ‘international community’, there is nothing. There is no working ‘independence in Europe’ prospectus.”
David Jamieson: Outcry over Tory brinkmanship covers malaise of ‘independence in Europe’
“Already by the start of September, students are arriving at Scottish campuses for the most extraordinary academic year in living memory.”
Analysis: After the school grades fiasco – what’s next for Scottish education?
Here we go again. One by one, Scottish Labour MSPs are calling for their leader, Richard Leonard, to resign. The figure is currently at four, but according to the BBC’s Glenn Campbell there’s more waiting in the wings. Leonard has responded by saying these MSPs were always opposed to his leadership and are waging an […]
SLabification is the disease which no leader has a cure for
With the Programme for Government due tomorrow in Scotland, it’s a good time to take a look at the state of politics. A poll over the weekend showed Labour are now neck and neck with the Tories, with the Conservatives managing to squander a 26 point lead in the space of five months. When Johnson […]
The Programme for Government in political context
“Problems like those posed by the GC do not go away on their own. They are either addressed directly and completely, or they go septic and rot, bleeding weakness across the whole body of the independence argument. The time to lance the rancid bubo has come.”