Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she won’t be standing in next year’s Holyrood election. Most of the other remaining ‘class of ‘99’ MSPs, who have sat in Holyrood since it reopened, have said the same. Whatever Sturgeon does next with her wealth of experience and knowledge of Scottish affairs, she won’t be going to the Other Place as the House of Lords is sometimes … [Read more...] about The UK needs a reformed second chamber
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It’s time to talk to the neighbours
The challenge of our time is not so much that exploration of constitutional futures is not being had, but that it is progressed separately within each nation rather than collectively as neighbours. What about the neighbours? We're a fractious lot, the four nations of the United Kingdom. We're all facing the same daunting outlook yet progressive thinking is … [Read more...] about It’s time to talk to the neighbours