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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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