Labour

It’s not the uniform swing, stupid!

30/10/2019 Tam 2 Comments

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

26/07/2019 Tam 0 Comments

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

24/09/2018 Tam 4 Comments

When Theresa May blocked the Scottish Parliament’s request for a new independence referendum in early 2017 by declaring that “now

20/08/201821/02/2020 Tam 3 Comments

English centrists are perhaps getting closer to taking the plunge and setting up a new Centrist Party, inspired by Emmanuel

24/07/2017 Tam 0 Comments

All political parties over a certain size are essentially coalitions. Their members generally agree on some questions but disagree wildly

19/05/201719/05/2017 Tam 1 Comment

In most democracies, politics in the past century was dominated by two large parties – a socialist or social-democratic party

31/01/201714/08/2017 Tam 2 Comments

I don’t normally blog about English politics, but the political turmoil south of the border is creating havoc up here,