The currents change, the ripples begin to show
It is likely ‘the mainstream’ won’t understand the significance of SCND’s decision to affiliate with Yes Scotland. But they’ll come to understand the consequences of why it happened.
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We Are Not Rats: Scotland’s Students’ Left Review
We Are Not Rats: Scotland’s Students’ Left Review is a new quarterly journal containing essays, reviews, interviews, letters, and artistic pieces that spark discussion among the students of Scottish universities and colleges.
Putting the future into the future tense
This is a slightly longer version of article in the Scotsman today on why it is essential that we start talking about the mechanisms for independence and stop dealing only in slogans
Rightward Lurch of the Year awards
The Scottish Politician of the Year nominations appear to reward a certain kind of politics – those that are moving towards the right…
What should have been learned in ‘back-to-front’ week
Those who interpret and predict Scottish politics spent last week fussing over a minor bluff while, potentially, the very structural integrity of Scottish politics may have begun to shift
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A right-wing agenda for the SNP
Today the Scotland on Sunday has outlined a clear right-wing agenda for the SNP. We can’t afford to dismiss this as wishful thinking.
A party without a leadership, a leadership without a party
The NATO vote has destroyed careers and brought many in the SNP to the verge. But they must all be patient – today was a giant victory for principle and for the left. Stay – defend those who made you proud today.
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Orientation Day
Tomorrow is a crucial day for the SNP. It is also a crucial day for quite a few SNP politicians. Here’s why.
The NATO poll nonsense
Claiming the spurious poll on NATO membership tells us anything shows a complete disregard for the science of measuring opinion
No accounting for finance hypocrisy
It’s not just that Sir Sandy Crombie is so utterly ridiculous in his defence of Creative Scotland, its that he reveals the utter hypocrisy at the heart of public police in Britain