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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: 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...
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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: openDemocracyUKLong live the People's Palace!Glasgow's beloved museum of ordinary people's lives is threatened with closure. But these are exactly the kind of...
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsMajor Scottish Tory funders fined over illegal donationThe Irvine Unionist Club donation funded 10% of Ruth Davidson’s campaign spending in 2016
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsScotland in Union held talks with Cambridge AnalyticaThe vice-chair of the campaign against Scottish independence met with the controversial data firm months after...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWest Papua's struggle for independenceWest Papuans have it much harder than Scots or Catalans. In West Papua it is illegal to fly the independence flag. Español
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Published in: 50.50A tribute to the fearless Laura Lee: freedom fighter for sex workers’ rights, and my friendLaura Lee died on 7 February 2018. She was a leading activist who campaigned fearlessly for the decriminalisation of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The EU as Britain’s constitutional stabiliser?More than it thinks, Britain may need its membership in the EU for the preservation of its national integrity and of...
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Published in: HomeSafe spaces, bagpipes and houmous“This is the safe space I was talking about… a totally open space people can feel safe in, because stories are...
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