Almost unnoticed in Scotland, as the results of the elections to Holyrood trickled in over two days last week, was the remarkable success of the Greens in Bristol. They gained 14 seats and are now-co-equal with Labour on the city council, with the Tories in third. Not perhaps as arresting as the winning of power in Baden-Württemberg or Bordeaux but striking in its own … [Read more...] about The green ascendancy
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Scotland’s Glorious Thirty
The French talk of 'les trente glorieuses': the first three decades after the second world war (1945-75) when France experienced exceptional (Piketty) growth in output, productivity and living standards. It was a period marked by state intervention ('dirigisme'), not least in creating and extending social benefits. Echoes can be found in Germany's Wirtschaftswunder and Italy's … [Read more...] about Scotland’s Glorious Thirty
Radical challenges for the SNP
The word unprecedented should really be banned from all utterances for the rest of 2020.But where the SNP is now as a party really is without much precedent. A party in its third term of government, riding high in the polls with a leader whose approval ratings eclipse the other UK party leaders never mind the Scottish ones who frankly don’t even … [Read more...] about Radical challenges for the SNP