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Is there such a thing as a Scottish mandate?

14/12/2019 thomas 2 Comments

Before the creation of the Scottish Parliament, people seemed to agree that a majority of Scottish MPs could decide Scotland’s

30/10/2019 thomas 2 Comments

When I moved to Scotland almost twenty years ago and started watching election night programmes, I was surprised at first

09/10/2019 thomas 1 Comment

For a long time now, British politics has been stuck in the mud. There’s no majority in favour of anything

06/08/201906/08/2019 thomas 0 Comments

There was an interesting thread on Twitter recently discussing whether the Tories really are mad because they seem to be

04/08/2019 thomas 0 Comments

The independence movement has for a while been divided into two main groups: the ones who wanted to hold a

28/07/201928/07/2019 thomas 0 Comments

There was an article by Dani Garavelli in The Scotsman on Sunday today. It was interesting in its own right,

26/07/2019 thomas 0 Comments

Why were Labour and the Lib Dems in favour of a Scottish Parliament in the 1990s? Because they had plenty