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Category: Features

April 13, 2015
Landslide, wipeout: FPTP distorts the picture
Elections, Features, UK
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.
Written by
Lucy Hunter Blackburn
April 10, 2015
Is Scotland the fairest of them all?
Features, Independence, UK
Scotland’s supposed moral superiority is too often unchallenged by media and politicians alike. Isn’t it time we took a long, hard look in the mirror?
Written by
Fay Young
April 6, 2015
Nicola’s premature coronation
Features, Social democracy, UK
Smear or swoon. Attitudes to Nicola Sturgeon lurch between the two. The few days since the #leadersdebate on ITV have seen her vilified as a secret Tory supporter (good for a second referendum with a positive outcome this time, supposedly) and “the most dangerous woman” in UK politics.
Written by
David Gow