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Published in: ourEconomy: ReviewHow the story of modern Scotland is the story of Scottish coalIn compelling new book ‘Coal Country’, Ewan Gibbs explores how Scotland’s lost coalfields transformed the nation’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish Labour must return to its radical rootsLabour is becalmed ahead of Scotland’s election. For the party to surge, it needs to ride the current of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish devolution is a disaster… if you’re Boris JohnsonThe contrast between Sturgeon and Johnson’s COVID response is awakening a new political imagination.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK is increasingly run by corporate insiders. And Scotland is, tooFrom a new biography of the prime minister to an interview with the man behind the SNP’s independence plans,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionOnly bold democratic reform could stop Starmer’s Labour from being pole-axed by a war of Scottish and English nationalismsStarmer inherits a situation in which the entwined constitutional questions of Brexit and Scottish independence have...
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Published in: HomeScottish-Palestinian doctor taken to ‘New IRA meeting’ by MI5 and tried on terror chargesGP says he doesn’t know much about Northern Irish politics and faces years in jail.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs Scotland's nature agency trying to re-extinct the beaver?Scotland’s beavers are a protected, native species. There are only about 450 of them. So why has the agency charged...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIn Scotland, Loyalists lead a Black Lives Matter backlashRacist ideas have connected Scottish sectarians with the global far right
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHenry Dundas, empire and genocideSuggesting that ‘the uncrowned King of Scotland’ worked to end slavery, rather to entrench it, is irresponsible...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEdinburgh to add new plaque to prominent Dundas statue after Black Lives Matter protestsAs statues of prominent racists topple around the world a huge, controversial monument in Edinburgh is to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCOVID-19 illuminates discriminatory sex work policiesScotland, Ireland and New Zealand have dealt with sex workers very differently during the pandemic, and the results...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationRevealed: More than 700 British firms blacklisted in Ukraine for suspicious activityBritish shell companies provide high prestige with low transparency – perfect for money-laundering, popular across...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoth Tory and Labour stories about Britain are broken. So what do we do in this election?Whatever happens in this election, it won’t in itself answer the looming questions ahead about the UK – and each of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three nights with the citizens of GironaA general strike had been called across Catalonia and somewhere down there, winding through the new town on the far...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy are the SNP’s politics so cautious and can they really change?Five years after the indyref and three years after the Brexit vote Scottish politics feels full of pent up...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Spanish nationalism loses the plotThe English nationalism unleashed by Brexit is not the same as the Spanish nationalism unleashed by the Catalan...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRuth Davidson’s exit leaves huge questions about Brexit and the future of the UnionDavidson rescued the Tories, but she didn’t remake the case for the union. Scottish Tories are now going to have to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKToday in Scotland the UK’s fractures are wideningShetland elects. Ruth Davison resigns. And Scottish law is deployed to defuse the prorogation bomb set ticking in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKA tale of two unionsScotland can only look on with envy as the concerns of the Irish Government are placed centre stage in Brussels...
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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...
