It’s not the uniform swing, stupid!
When I moved to Scotland almost twenty years ago and started watching election night programmes, I was surprised at first
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Tories
Machiavellian madness?
There was an interesting thread on Twitter recently discussing whether the Tories really are mad because they seem to be
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If the SNP won’t act without Westminster’s approval, we should infiltrate the Unionist parties
Why were Labour and the Lib Dems in favour of a Scottish Parliament in the 1990s? Because they had plenty
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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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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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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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Francis Fukuyama’s children
The historian Robert Saunders tweeted a great thread yesterday about the world view of the Tory Brexiteers. Here it is:
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