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Published in: openDemocracyUKSalmond, Sturgeon and the end of the SNP's imperial eraJust when Scotland's voice is needed in the Brexit mess, the SNP's famous internal discipline seems to be disintegrating into factionalism.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Brexit disaster is an existential crisis in the ‘Idea’ of BritainBrexit – driven by unenlightened, defiantly anti-modern nationalism – could be the most serious constitutional crisis since Great Britain’s inception in 1707.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCorbyn isn’t seizing the moment – because his Labour Party simply isn’t radical enoughFrom economic and climate policy, to Brexit and constitutional reform, Corbyn’s Labour doesn’t yet have the depth of ideas to capitalise on the government’s disarray.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAmidst Brexit chaos, Scotland has had enough of ‘grace and favour devolution’Scotland’s soft, determined pro-Europeanism, just like that of Northern Ireland, is seen by Brexit England as just another reason to hold entire nations in contempt.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAs Ireland embraces the future, Scottish Nationalists merely embrace the (flawed) presentOn the day Ireland cast its historic vote on abortion, the SNP launched an economic policy that maintains fiscal conservatism – vacating a space which could be inhabited by a more honest, bold and radical independence movement.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEnoch Powell’s ghost and bigotry still haunt modern BritainWe are better than Enoch Powell – but, as recent events show, not by as much as we think.
Gerry Hassan is a writer, commentator and academic on Scottish and UK politics, power, democracy and social change. He has written or edited over two dozen books including Scotland the Bold and the newly published A Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On (edited with Simon Barrow). His writing can be found at: www.gerryhassan.com