Tensions in the Scot Squad
Sorley Complain finds something sinister behind the cheery faces of BBC Scotland’s policing comedy.
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Our Involuntary Union?
Simon Barrow considers the politics of independence after the Supreme Court verdict and describes a strategy for the SNP to grow
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Rising More Slowly?
John Wood reviews Scotland Rising: The Case for Independence by Gerry Hassan (Pluto Press, 2022) Gerry Hassan has made timely and
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Whither the Scottish left?
George Kerevan surveys the scene, suggesting the SNP’s dominance results from a lack of choices. How often have you heard someone
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Alba, action stations and the forthcoming local elections
Kenny MacAskill issues a rallying cry for those dispirited and disillusioned with the submissive and subservient SNP The local elections this
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Book Review
Jim Sillars A Difference of Opinion: My political journey, Birlinn, 2021, 97817802706830, £14.99, pp303 Reviewed by Will Podmore Jim Sillars is
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Editorial: Old wine in old bottles?
Though Charles Dickens did not say ‘It was not the best of times. It was not quite the worst of times’
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Onwards down the yellow brick road – the SNP will do what it says it has on its tin
Chris Stephens says the populace is behind the SNP’s prospectus for a socially just independent Scotland. Seven days after Scotland went
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Editorial:The fight for a Scotland we want.
This issue is our traditional STUC congress themed issue. In it, and in addition to hearing from the STUC itself, we
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Editorial When politics trumped economics
As we begin 2021, 2020 should be remembered as the year in which politics trumped economics twice – on Brexit and
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The Say No Party – the battle is just beginning to stop the Stalinism of Sturgeon
Kenny MacAskill reviews how the SNP will act after its leadership received a recent bloody lip. Where now for the SNP
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The struggle for Scotland: from marching to movement for the moment at hand
Keir McKechnie reports on how AUOB is changing not just to meet the times but to shape them too. Support for
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Self-determination for Scotland: do we have Lenin’s courage?
Konrad Rekas ask those who want to be more than counted to stand up now. What do we need political parties
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Reflections on democracy, diktat and despotism in the SNP
Kenny MacAskill argues all is not well in the house of the SNP if it is to lay the foundations for
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Forget your roots at your political peril
Kenny MacAskill considers the case of Kansas to give a handle on those feeling left behind but not left It’s never
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Sex, lies and Salmond – lots of speculation and insinuation but no video tape
Kenny MacAskill picks through the detritus of the trial of the century and finds some unpalatable truths The Alex Salmond case
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