4th March 2022 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed
One of the signs of spring north of the border is the advent of the Scottish party conference season. The pandemic, of course, disrupted all of that, but today sees the opening of the first of three in-person Scottish party conferences, the first such clutch of gatherings since lockdown restrictions were initially introduced almost exactly […]
26th January 2022 Scotland Question
How Scotland should be governed
25th January 2022 Scotland Question
How Scotland should be governed
25th January 2022 Scotland Question
How Scotland should be governed
26th November 2021 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
The SNP meet (virtually) again this weekend for their second conference in three months. But have the polls changed significantly since the party’s previous conference in September, just before the seventh anniversary of the 2014 independence referendum? There is little sign of any erosion of the party’s dominance of vote intentions. Three polls of vote […]
31st October 2021 Scotland Question
How Scotland should be governed
21st October 2021 Comment
Cross border attitudes How England should be governed How Scotland should be governed National identity and cultural issues
Today’s British Social Attitudes report contains two chapters of particular relevance to the subjects covered by this website. The first is a chapter by Chris Deeming of Strathclyde University that compares attitudes in Scotland towards aspects of social justice and inequality with those in England on the one hand and those in the three Nordic […]
7th October 2021 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders Expectations of constitutional change How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the independence referendum held on 18 September 2014. Earlier in the month there was an online SNP conference – though the party is planning another one at the end of November! – while just before the month began the SNP and the Greens concluded a deal that saw […]
6th October 2021 Scotland Question
How Scotland should be governed
5th October 2021 GB Question
How Scotland should be governed