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About Bob Tait

Bob Tait advocated links between the Scottish left and social-democratic nats in Gordon Brown’s The Red Paper on Scotland (1975) and was a member of the breakaway SLP. He edited Scottish International then worked as an educationalist, taking early retirement to concentrate on the sociological and psychological underpinnings of political behaviour. A founder member of Langstane Housing Association he has been deeply involved in housing issues and housing provision since 1978.

Mayism or Maybe not

May 20, 2017 by Bob Tait 1 Comment

Theresa May promises a post-Brexit Britain that will be unfettered, united in joint enterprise, thriving – and fair for those able and lucky enough to thrive in it. How does she intend to get us where she wants us?

The triumph of Trumpocracy

November 9, 2016 by Bob Tait Leave a Comment

Trump’s trriumph “portends the imminent destruction or disabling of the institutions on the Hill, both Senate and Congress, and the marginalisation – to the point of irrelevance or puppetry – of NGOs and institutions of civil society, including unions, that could provide advocacy and protection for many sections of the population.”

Aberdeen misses the boat in the oil boom

February 4, 2016 by Bob Tait Leave a Comment

Nicola Sturgeon and David Cameron have rushed to Aberdeen to pledge financial support to surmount the oil industry slump. But the city was never given the tools to benefit fully from the boom, argues the Aberdeen-based author. It now needs a change in Scotland’s political culture to make the transition.

Istanbul: epic in its details

December 9, 2015 by Bob Tait 2 Comments

Orhan Pamuk tells the epic story of Istanbul, scene of many of his previous books, over the past four decades as it grows into one of the world’s mega-cities and Turkey becomes a major global player.

SNP surge rides the surf of social change

April 17, 2015 by Bob Tait Leave a Comment

Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for May’s UK general election continue to suggest a huge increase in votes and seats for the SNP – and a remarkable flip-over in its position relative to Labour in previous UK elections.

Why centre parties have lost their way

March 4, 2015 by Bob Tait Leave a Comment

In electoral democracies generally, the traction and attraction of the main parties of the centre-left and centre-right have diminished so much that they struggle to maintain a grip on power, let alone dominate and swap power between them as they did from the 1950s to the noughties of this century.

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