Category: Politics
Integrating British Transport Police on a ‘shoogly peg’
‘It is difficult to see the logic in saddling Police Scotland with more structural upheaval,’ the author argues about the planned integration of British Transport Police. The Scottish Government is wrong to say that the timing is right: it isn’t.
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A resurgent Labour under Corbyn is good for Scotland
A SNP member here explains why he is backing Jeremy Corbyn for Labour’s leadership and thinks an alliance between the two parties and with the Greens is the right way forward and could be on the cards.
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Roch Winds and the illusions of Civic Nationalism
Articles, Books & Poetry, Economics, Independence, Longer reads, Politics, Reviews, Social democracy, UKA review of a fine new book by three young writers that offers a much needed razor-sharp critique of Scotland’s emerging political monoculture.
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Is Momentum a mob? No – this is what democracy looks like
Jeremy Gilbert argues that a few unpleasant incidents are being highlighted to undermine a huge, peaceful, democratic movement.
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Is Corbyn’s Labour a democratic centralist party?
In our continuing series on UK Labour the author examines whether Jeremy Corbyn plus/minus Momentum et al are turning Labour into a Leninist party treating MPs as representatives to be de-selected at will or does it remain wedded to representative parliamentary democracy and socialism?
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