Scottish Labour must take its head out of the sand
Neil Findlay proposes a way forward for Scottish Labour on its constitutional crisis Labour cannot ignore or wish away constitutional
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Democracy
Dark, dismal days for democracy
The politics of Scotland and Britain are about to enter dark days for democracy. A white, ageing and disproportionately male
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Democracy is on-going and never finished
Willie Sullivan, Jess Garland and Michela Palese on how to fix our broken political system Most commentators seem to buy
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Scottish Parliament: essential to Scottish democracy but what kind of democracy?
Paul Cairney argues the Scottish Parliament is fundamental to Scottish democracy but legitimises pluralist rather than participatory democracy A well-functioning
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Lessons for the West from the East: the Kurdish democratic experiment
Back from a women’s delegation to northern Syria in 2018, Sarah Glynn reports on her visit A common defence of
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How managerialism hijacked Holyrood
Colin Fox says promises have been unfulfilled, challenges ducked and the poorest Scots failed On this, the twentieth anniversary of
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