The myths and realities of progressive politics in Scotland
One of the great myths of Scottish politics is that the SNP are a progressive party. It simply…
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Is Alistair Darling being replaced at Better Together?
This morning’s Daily Mail claims that Alistair Darling has been quietly dumped as chief of Better Together, the…
Remembering John Smith
Today we mark two significant anniversaries: the twentieth anniversary of John Smith’s death and the fifteenth anniversary of the…
More notes from the trenches on the No campaign
Since my earlier post Trench Warfare 2014appeared, two main lines of argument have emerged. The first of these…
Why CWU is saying “No” to Scottish independence
On the banner of CWU’s (the Communication Workers Union) Glasgow and Motherwell branch there are three words –…
Have the Tories given up on Scotland?
This morning we noted that the Tories haven’t selected candidates in nearly half of the most marginal Labour…
Brown teams up with Darling for Scottish independence intervention
Gordon Brown will today enter the debate on Scottish independence with a speech making the case for a…
From food banks to fair pay
We all know that politicians love to talk about ‘fairness’. Hardly anyone will disagree that people should be…
Trench warfare 2014: Scottish independence
It might be distasteful to some to use an analogy so redolent to the First World War, but…
There is now only one unifying force in British politics and that’s the Labour Party
When Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, said this week that “We are at a stage in politics…
