Lucy Hunter Blackburn
Scottish Government muddies water on privatisation
How the quiet privatisation of some water services not only brings the Scottish Government up against many of its own supporters, but cuts across some of the most powerful rhetoric it has used over the…
Landslide, wipeout: FPTP distorts the picture
Talk of an SNP landslide and a Labour wipeout in Scotland on May 7 simply underlines the distorting effects of the first-past-the-post voting system in Westminster elections.
No fees? No pain?
For many people, it is obvious that Scotland must have a fair system for funding students. Since the abolition of the graduate endowment in 2007, the government has pressed home that we should be proud…