What is the constitutional path to independence?
When Theresa May blocked the Scottish Parliament’s request for a new independence referendum in early 2017 by declaring that “now
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UK-wide political parties and proportional representation
Northern Ireland developed their own political parties a long time ago, and Scotland is now going down the same route
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Blind Brexit – where would that leave Scottish independence?
It seems to me that the Brexit melodrama is most likely to unfold in one of three directions over the
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Union Jacks and Scottish accents
Scottish social media has for a while been full of stories about how Union Jacks are replacing Saltires on Scottish
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Will a new Centrist Party make the same errors as the People’s Vote campaign in Scotland?
English centrists are perhaps getting closer to taking the plunge and setting up a new Centrist Party, inspired by Emmanuel
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How not to campaign in Scotland
Yesterday there was a rally in Edinburgh in favour of a new Brexit referendum, apparently attended by about a thousand
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The collapse of the state
I finally got round to reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens last week, and it was quite a good read in
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