The Scottish Parliament elections, for all their drama, have not given us bold, imaginative politics. Scotland needs a new story, that breaks out of our comfortable myths and default positions. Scotland's future story will be about inter-dependence, a politics of a self-governing nation
Tomorrow is the Scottish elections, and the latest poll shows the SNP with a strong lead over Labour. The party has fought one of the most disastrous election campaigns in British memory. So, after the landslide, will Scottish Labour wake up to the need for renewal?
The leader debates in the run-up to the Scottish elections this week reveal a nation in crisis, stuck in a timewarp. For institutional Scotland to be challenged, we must reimagine our political community, nation and society
Cailean Gallagher reviews a collection of writing on the state of modern Scotland, edited by Gerry Hassan and Rosie Ilett
The forthcoming Scottish elections are shaping up to be the most gripping since 1999. The Nationalists are pulling ahead, Scottish Labour are fighting for their lives, and the future of the union and of Britain itself hang in the balance
A sensational poll on the forthcoming Scottish elections shows the SNP leaving Labour behind. Have the Nationalists got themselves an unassailable lead? Or can Labour change strategy in the fortnight until polling day?
Until recently, a Labour win in the forthcoming Scottish elections was seen as a surety. Why are the SNP now pulling ahead? What does this mean for the results on May 5th and the future of politics in Scotland and the UK?
Until we take a cold, hard look at England and its place in the world, social democracy will continue to languish behind Offa’s Dyke and Hadrian’s Wall Social democracy can't be the territory to Scotland and Wales. British social democracy must go hand in hand with devolution
As the Scottish Parliament elections gather pace, the Londoncentric media are faced with a country not playing by the austerity rule book. And they don't like it. Last Sunday's 'The Politics Show' took the market dogma line, presenting Scotland as a dependency state refusing to acknowledge the eco
Attempts made by the London-based centre-left to understand Scottish politics continue to fall flat. Yet it is important for Scotland that figures like IPPR's Nick Pearce, the Fabian's Sunder Katwala and Matthew Taylor of the RSA understand British politics and life beyond Westminster.
Left Foot Forward’s devolution correspondent Ed Jacobs assesses reaction to Britain's 2011 budget in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Once upon a time we had a powerful left which shaped a large part of 20th century Scotland. What has happened to this politics, idealism and radicalism today, and what do we do without it?
