-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionScottish Green members hold unprecedented power. How will they use it?For the first time in UK political history, a party membership has direct influence over government policy
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisWill the SNP use its powers to halt exploitation of the Cambo oil field?As Nicola Sturgeon negotiates with the Greens, a controversy over oil exploitation and its implications for a...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionGoodbye, Source: Providing independent journalism in a turbulent yearScottish political commentary platform Source was launched amid the chaos of March 2020. As it winds down, its...
-
Published in: Freedom of Information: AnalysisFrom private emails to Post-it Notes: How politicians avoid scrutinyMatt Hancock, who Labour accused of trying to ‘conduct government business in secret’, joins a long list of...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBy not taking the knee at the Euros, Scotland exposes its national mythMany in Scotland believe racism is for the English and Americans. We, after all, are the underdogs. We’re the good...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: Feature‘It’s not often you defeat Priti Patel’: Will Glasgow be a wake-up call?Last week’s events on Kenmure Street raised questions about who makes the rules in Scotland, in whose interests, and...
-
Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMP demands investigation into ‘dark money ads’ in Scottish electionExclusive: SNP’s Brendan O’Hara urges Electoral Commission to respond to concerns that pro-Unionist groups flouted...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEnglish people must fight for Scotland’s democratic rights – or sacrifice their ownIf we let Boris Johnson ignore the mandate for a second referendum, he’ll come for our civil liberties next
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt’s not enough to vote for an independence referendum, you need to campaign for itSupporters of a Scottish independence referendum can’t just wait for governments to act
-
Published in: Dark Money Investigations: InvestigationDid dark money and dirty tactics swing the Scottish election?Rules flouted as sites promoting Unionist tactical voting spent more money on ads than the SNP, while ex-BNP...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThis was Scotland’s most boring election, and its most importantAnd for those Scottish voters who have previously only flirted with independence, England’s results will strengthen the idea
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisHow Scottish independence stopped being scaryIn 2016, Scotland’s Conservatives successfully spread panic about an independence referendum. Five years on, the...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsLeading European cultural figures call on EU to offer Scotland ‘path’ to rejoinBrian Cox, Slavoj Žižek, and Elena Ferrante among signatories asking the EU to offer membership ahead of possible...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsDouglas Ross under fire for ‘prejudicial’ Traveller comments unearthed by openDemocracyThe Scottish Tory leader faces backlash from Travellers and human rights activists after being accused of ‘divisive...
-
Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureDouglas Ross and the war on Scotland’s TravellersHow the Scottish Tory leader has prised open one of the country’s oldest and deepest racist fault lines
-
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...
-
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...
-
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.
-
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,...
-
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...
Latest in "Scotland"
New in our projects
-
Published in: oDR: OpinionUkraine and the West: an insider’s view
