Fixing Broken Government, a latest report by Professor Jim Gallagher of Our Scottish Future will no doubt be dismissed by some as a partisan attack on the SNP Government. That would be a grave mistake. If the SNP hopes to govern Scotland after next May then this report will be essential reading. There are some senior SNP figures who will recognise the accuracy … [Read more...] about Enough campaigning. Is the next Scottish government prepared to govern?
Scottish politics
Well tempered steel beneath David Gow’s jovial irreverence
It was typical of David's open-mindedness and intelligence that he was himself somewhat conflicted about which way to vote. 'No', he told me, though he confessed to spending some time agonising in the polling boothJustin Reynolds, a writer now living in Norwich worked with David Gow and Fay Young to set up the Sceptical Scot website in 2015 … [Read more...] about Well tempered steel beneath David Gow’s jovial irreverence
David Gow’s legacy of friendship
Build, baby, build
Ross Greer MSP, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, thinks I'm "super-rich" as the owner of a small (50m2) second home (lodge) overlooking Loch Earn. “All over Scotland people are being priced out of the communities they’ve grown up in, all while tens of thousands of homes sit empty for most of the year. They are being hoarded by a small number of wealthy people who clearly do … [Read more...] about Build, baby, build
Political change across Britain and Ireland (2)
Politics happens not only between Ireland, Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom, but across them as well. There is a British-Irish and an Irish-British politics, along with growing relationships between state and political actors in Scotland, Wales and parts of England with their counterparts in Ireland North and South. Such relations are built into the three-stranded … [Read more...] about Political change across Britain and Ireland (2)