Feet of clay
As the UK Labour leadership election intensifies, Alastair Osborne looks back on political figures he has admired but who have turned out to be deeply flawed, and considers what...
After the election: confronting Brexit
Richard Rawles dissects Labour’s failure to stop, or even in parts oppose, Brexit, and argues that although Remain has lost, the values of Remain must prevail. So, that was...
United, we rise
Ben Procter says Scottish Labour must be realistic about its plight and the challenge it faces, and must approach the future united if it is to survive at all....
What is to be done?
Jim O’Neill says Labour must not repeat the mistakes of the post-Foot years and that Scottish Labour must now have a single-minded focus on the 2021 Scottish election and...
We will always be European
Alastair Osborne points out the many ways in which Brexit does not spell the end of our European identity, and argues for active measures to reassert our internationalist outlook....
A perfect storm
Henry Kinloch, former councillor and Treasurer of Edinburgh Pentlands CLP, sees Labour’s current woes as the result of a combination of factors, and cautions against repeating the same thing...
No IndyRef2 without a confirmatory vote
Robert Hoskins urges the Scottish Labour leadership not to endorse a second independence referendum without at the very least requiring any final deal to be subject to a confirmatory...