The road to EU membership
How do countries join the EU? I’ve noticed a lot of confusion about this. In particular, there seems to be
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Author: Tam
Entering the Brexit endgame
Rational people (including most Remainers) have been assuming that the UK and the EU of course would negotiate a reasonable
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No more referendums?
I believe Brexit is going to such an epic disaster that stopping it is much more urgent than achieving Scottish
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The UK cannot move for embarrassment
Rafael Behr had a rather interesting wee article in The Guardian recently, but I fear many might have ignored it
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Winning over the No–Remain voters
The British Election Study team has produced some really interesting graphs showing how the four main groups of Scottish voters
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Is the SNP suffering from acute Labouritis?
All political parties over a certain size are essentially coalitions. Their members generally agree on some questions but disagree wildly
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Election reflexions
The SNP has lost a lot of excellent MPs, and Westminster will be poorer without them. Amongst them, my local
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