Time to get our act together on Europe
Jenni Dunsmore says even if we manage to jettison the constructive ambiguity, too much of Labour’s positioning on the EU has been shallow and, especially in Scotland, we cannot...
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...
Nine per cent
Sheila Gilmore says Labour should have learned the lesson from 2014 that straddling a post-referendum political divide simply doesn’t work, and that it’s way past time we adopted unambiguous...
John Smith 25 years on
25 years since the death of John Smith, Alastair Osborne strips the myths from the man and remembers the reality of his contribution, the pain of his loss, and...
The terms “BritNat” and “Unionist” are lazy and wrong
Mick Watson takes on the descriptions “BritNat” and “unionist” which are widely used on social media against opponents of Scottish independence, and sets out why this is both lazy...