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Binary choice and multi-party politics

August 16, 2020 by James Mitchell Leave a Comment

‘.Like the Bourbons, the Conservatives have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.  But Labour are in danger of the same.  Time is running out for a reasonably well developed alternative option that might be included in a future referendum.  Not only would this enrich a stale debate but would allow Labour to escape the potentially lethal embrace of working with the Tories again.’

Independence or bust

June 14, 2020 by David Gow 7 Comments

John Lloyd book review: ‘What marks the book out is Lloyd’s personal transition to virtually self-hating Scot. This is not just the regular Unionist assertion that Scotland is too wee, too weak, to cut it as an independent country but a visceral assault on “Scotland’s self-serving, self-pitying, self-obsessed keening about others, mainly the English, stealing their birthright and smashing their culture” and/or continuous “moral superiority.”‘

A new strategy for the Union

October 18, 2019 by Akash Paun Leave a Comment

‘The Sewel convention will need to be revived and reformed, with stronger guarantees that Westminster will not rewrite the rules of devolution without agreement.’

Boris’s pork-barrel politics

August 2, 2019 by Michael Keating Leave a Comment

‘Westminster is also extending its reach to some detailed local policies that are clearly devolved and local. It is not clear, for example, why UK ministers should have a say in the decision about a new concert hall in Edinburgh…’

Triumph of rhetoric over reality

July 27, 2019 by Lindsay Paterson 1 Comment

‘Education policy as made by the Scottish parliament has certainly been distinctive. But it has not been obviously successful, and it is not, in any historical sense, particularly Scottish.’

‘Children of the Devolution’: really?

July 8, 2019 by Gerry Hassan Leave a Comment

‘What is missing is any dynamic between insider and outsider Scotland, or an understanding that politics is about power, contested ideas and different social constituencies.’

Popular sovereignty and written constitution

February 23, 2019 by Vernon Bogdanor Leave a Comment

‘Perhaps, therefore, Brexit might prove a constitutional moment for the UK, leading to the creation and adoption of a codified constitution so aligning Britain with almost every other democracy.’

Will Brexit destroy the UK?

October 9, 2018 by Brendan Donnelly Leave a Comment

‘There is a saying among global trade negotiators that the world is divided between cannibals and lunch. The UK may be finding painfully that leaving the protection of the cannibals has condemned it to become lunch. It was certainly Stephen (Haseler)’s view that the English superstate was just as incapable of responding to new challenges internationally as it was domestically.’

Devolution settlement is at risk

September 20, 2018 by Daniel Wincott Leave a Comment

‘The territorial politics of Brexit is a bewildering mix of ignorance, apparent disdain, confrontation, cooperation and collaboration. Rarely have the so-called devolution ‘settlements’ appeared more unsettled.’

Devo, federalism and the UK constitution

June 21, 2018 by Andrew Blick Leave a Comment

‘The UK could, therefore, be in the process of a fundamental constitutional reconfiguration that partially reverses devolutionary patterns of development of the preceding two decades. This project is taking place in a fashion that is not wholly consensual, and involves the UK government deploying, or at least threatening to deploy, parliamentary sovereignty for purposes of legal coercion.’

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