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Is Reform really overtaking Labour?

December 14, 2024 by Paul Whiteley 3 Comments

Much has been made of the news that Reform has overtaken Labour in voting intentions in a recent poll. The poll, produced by market research agency Find Out Now, put the Conservatives on 26%, Reform on 24% and Labour on 23%. Most recent polls show that Labour is still ahead of Reform, but only by a small […]

Balgy Gap and the missing loop in the grid

December 3, 2024 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

The privatisation of Scotland’s power has proved a failure, argues Jackie Kemp, citing the 60-year failure to provide power to a part of the Highlands

Let’s reverse the decline in Scottish journalism

October 2, 2024 by Jen Stout Leave a Comment

“This not just about how we understand foreign affairs and how we tackle misinformation, but about basic democracy functioning in Scotland. Hopefully MSPs and ministers understand that though journalists can be a pain in the arse for them, a news vacuum full of disinformation and conspiracy would be much worse.”

Is Scotland heading for an early election?

August 30, 2024 by David Gow 1 Comment

The parlous state of UK public finances and spillover impact of the October 30 Budget could mean Holyrood refuses to pass next year’s Scottish Budget, triggering the government’s resignation

Options and challenges for Wales’s constitutional future

March 8, 2024 by Kirsty Hughes Leave a Comment

In her latest European Conversations podcast the author talks to a member of the independent commission on the constitutional future of Wales about its findings – and their relevance for Scotland

Lies, damn lies and education stats

December 12, 2023 by Sceptical Scot Editors 1 Comment

“For the Scottish government to claim that this supersedes PISA – as they do in their statement today – is either disingenuous or evidence of dismaying statistical ignorance.” (Prof Lindsay Paterson)

What’s the Orange Order’s future?

July 12, 2023 by Brian O'Neill 2 Comments

“I was at a talk the other week by the Orange Order Historian Dr David Hume. It is a measure of how far we have come as a society that there was a talk about the Orange Order in the James Connolly Centre on the Falls Road.

Saltire in the sky

May 6, 2021 by Jackie Kemp Leave a Comment

‘It is perhaps under-recognised by many in the independence camp just how much support there was for the Union in 1707 among middle-class Scots. That support was based on a hunger for opportunity. But Brexit has reversed that – it means a big reduction in the degree of opportunity that Union with the rest of the UK once offered.’

‘Strategic lies’ in Downing St

April 28, 2021 by Ivor Gaber 1 Comment

“The quality of our democracy depends on the quality of the political debate within the public sphere. New campaigning techniques represent a real threat to both the debate and our democracy and something needs to be done urgently to address this problem.”

Postcard from anti-vax France

April 8, 2021 by Frances Allen 1 Comment

Danser Encore: Frances Allen

A doubly vaccinated Frances Allen ventures into the market place to meet the complex cultural attitudes of her adopted home: ‘a country which has a historic mistrust of vaccines.’ 

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