Where is the economic honesty in the independence debate?
Robert Hoskins says it’s almost impossible to find an argument for Scottish independence which includes a critique of its economic effects, and says the national debate is dangerously deluded...
All together now?
Jim O’Neill considers the purpose and basis of the constant pro-independence marches around the country, and ponders the impact of changes in Westminster. I remember the days of the...
Labour and the ‘traditional working class’
There is much talk, when Labour discusses its approach to Brexit, of the “traditional heartlands” of northern England and their EU referendum vote. Richard Rawles says this focus risks...
There’s Something About Rory
Nick Hopkins finds a strange kind of hope in the emergence of Rory Stewart’s emotional intelligence and virtue modelling in the Tory leadership race, and says he offers signposts...
The death of Labour has been much exaggerated
Jim O’Neill is back, and takes on Peterborough, Labour’s policymaking process, and the McGarry case. The, to many, surprising victory of Labour in the Peterborough by-election has shown that...
Dear Richard
Peter Russell writes to Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard offering his support and setting out a proposed strategy to create a Scottish Labour Party that will be relevant and...
Is this it?
Tom Harris asks what Scottish Labour now stands for and whether there continues to be a place for it in Scottish politics, and the conclusions he reaches are not...