Image: Garbh Allt, one of the latest community land buyouts. Credit: Garbh Allt Community Intiative Estate
Scotland is a great teacher about modern politics. The politics is more open and inclusive than it is in Westminster – partly as a result of having ditched Westminster’s one-party-takes-all voting system. But being better at democracy than Westminster is not a particularly high bar.
Scotland does not escape the inequality, confusion and precariousness that is fuelling bad politics across the globe. Democracy is not only about elections: in Scotland we see a relatively vibrant political and activist culture, often challenging and at times belligerent in the face of concentrations of power. Still, we can do better.
