Gerry Hassan is a writer, commentator and academic on Scottish and UK politics, power, democracy and social change. He is Professor of Social Change at Glasgow Caledonian University and has written an
From a new biography of the prime minister to an interview with the man behind the SNP’s independence plans, democracy suffers when its run by insiders.
Surrounded by yes-men, cronies and dubious advisors, Johnson is trashing standards in public life and traditional statecraft – and Britain will be the worse for it.
Davidson rescued the Tories, but she didn’t remake the case for the union. Scottish Tories are now going to have to get used to politics as a bumpier ride.
Brexit – driven by unenlightened, defiantly anti-modern nationalism – could be the most serious constitutional crisis since Great Britain’s inception in 1707.
From economic and climate policy, to Brexit and constitutional reform, Corbyn’s Labour doesn’t yet have the depth of ideas to capitalise on the government’s disarray.
Scotland’s soft, determined pro-Europeanism, just like that of Northern Ireland, is seen by Brexit England as just another reason to hold entire nations in contempt.
On the day Ireland cast its historic vote on abortion, the SNP launched an economic policy that maintains fiscal conservatism – vacating a space which could be inhabited by a more honest, bold and radical independence movement.
