What does nationalism look like? Images of flags and people marching around them, collective weeping for the fallen, the seals and offices of state, the […] Read More
Category: Scottish Politics
“Nostalgia doesn’t create good policy. Nostalgia dragging you back to a year that is gone and a place and time that is gone doesn’t give […] Read More
Getting told to cheer up isn’t the worst aspect of the social-media-politics vortex by any means, but it’s one of the most soul-sapping. You ok […] Read More
“Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on” is an odd rallying cry for a national movement. It is not a “free or a desert” […] Read More
On balance, Kezia Dugdale was the most capable leader of Scottish Labour since Donald Dewar. That might seem like a molehill of an achievement given […] Read More
Scotland frequently struggles to remind itself of certain basic facts about its politics. Such is the lot of a half-country: with its lack of a […] Read More
“Was it too busy in standard?” is a legitimate enough question to pose to a frontline politician like Yvette Cooper. You can imagine the sense […] Read More
On the morning of June 24 last year, when the UK decided to leave the European Union, there was little comfort to be had. Ever […] Read More
Sometimes events on the ground throw mainstream politics into flux. If you’re sceptical of such an assertion it is worth nothing that, as I write, […] Read More
In 2007 I overheard a conversation in an Edinburgh pub on the politics of devolution. This was, as I recall, an unusual occurrence at the […] Read More