Articles by Gerry Hassan

Can Scotland chart a path apart from neo-liberal Britain? And are parts of the left still stuck in their comfort zones? Gerry Hassan’s observations from a Glasgow book festival panel on the future of the left

The British system of government and politics might be in endemic crisis, but it is not a golden era for radicals. According to 'The London Review of Books' the state of British politics is nothing to get excited about, and all small beer compared to the serious, cosmopolitan and worldly issues it focuses its attention on to.

Gordon Brown’s role in the Iraq war will come under focus today when he gives evidence to the Chilcot inquiry. We can gain perspective on this by considering the two British foreign policy disasters of the last century, Munich and Suez

A review of Christopher Harvie's new look

'New Labour' was given the final rites by Gordon Brown at the weekend at the Labour spring campaign event

The ongoing saga of the British parliamentary expenses crisis crossed a major watershed with the charging of three Labour MPs and one Tory peer

Gerry Hassan examines the Scottish blogosphere

Vincent Cable's forgotten support for Scottish independence, and Gordon Brown's forgotten consideration of 'English Votes for English Laws'

Despite the failings of the neo-liberal model, the media still uses its advocates in City institutions, financial bodies and agencies associated with them to explain and analyse the crisis

The ESRC's 'Britain in...' series - dry, humourless, safety-first academics spend pages saying nothing