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Gerry Hassan is a writer, policy analyst and researcher. His website is www.gerryhassan.com

Articles by Gerry Hassan

Labour’s Future and the Story of Labour Britain

Gerry Hassan 2 June 2010
The UK Labour party has yet to learn the lessons of its defeat. The six candidates for leadership of the party display a blinkered and partial view of the UK, the nature of its state and its politics.

The Next Scottish Constitutional Revolution: Why Calman Isn’t the Answer

Gerry Hassan 25 May 2010
The new Scotland Act, announced in the Queen's speech today, marks another important milestone in Scottish politics. But important questions about the Scottish government and its relationship with the the British state must not be ignored.

After the Politics of Left and Right: The End of ‘Modernisation’ and ‘Progressive Politics’

Gerry Hassan 18 May 2010
The emergence of the Con-Lib Dem government in the UK provides a historic opening for a different kind of politics which draws from beyond the old tribal certainties of left and right.

The Perilous Politics of ‘No Mandate’ and Genuine Scottish Self-Determination

Gerry Hassan 13 May 2010
As British politics enters uncharted waters, Scottish politics seems strangely familar and returning to the parameters of the 1980s and the politics of 'no mandate', as Labour and SNP out do each other in the oppositionalist opportunism. How can we demand and expect more from our politicians than this?

UK Election: Facts and figures on the fragmentation of the UK

Gerry Hassan 10 May 2010
The general election revealed widening fissures in the UK's multi-national state that lie behind the hanging of parliament

Goodbye to Gordon Brown and All That

Gerry Hassan 6 May 2010
Gordon Brown has been Prime Minister for three years and a senior Labour politician for the last two decades. In this time he has written and produced over a dozen books, yet, what has he really contributed to progressive thinking? Brown's tragedy is not just a personal one, which many will be quick off the mark to write about in the next few days, but part of the wider story of what the Labour Party became under Blair and Brown.

Coming Up for Air North of the Border: The British Media, Scotland, the SNP and the Crises of Britain

Gerry Hassan 29 April 2010
The Scottish Nationalist Party has always been a problematic entity for the British media to understand. But its failed court case on the Prime Ministerial debates demonstrates the unmistakable tone of gripe and grievance and a reversion to the "old brand".

The British Election Debates, the Lib Dem Surge and the Americanisation of Our Politics

Gerry Hassan 22 April 2010
The British election campaign is shaking many of the in-built assumptions and contours of British politics.

A Tale of Two of Labour's three Manifestos: ‘Choice’ and the Absence of England

Gerry Hassan 12 April 2010
Labour's election manifesto published today is an uncertain trumpet, its off-key notes exposed by an incisive comparison of its English-British and Scottish versions

The Battle of Britain 2010 Edition and Living in the Shadow of Empire

Gerry Hassan 6 April 2010
Underlying the 2010 British general election is a wider set of questions and issues: who are we, what do we want to be, what kind of country and society do we aspire to be, and where and how do we see our collective futures.

Go Brown To A Fourth Term: The Strange Story of Labour’s Comeback

Gerry Hassan 27 March 2010
As the Scottish Labour Party meets in Glasgow, the party now finds itself in the surprising situation of an open, competitive election with everything to play for.

The future of the left and neo-liberalism's appeal as a liberation movement

Gerry Hassan 15 March 2010
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

An Age of Anger: The London Review of Books and the British Crisis of Democracy

Gerry Hassan 7 March 2010
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.

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