Scottish society, culture and institutional life is shaped by a lack of dynamism, pluralism and a profound lack of interest in ideas - a movement of Scottish citizens is needed to break the deadlock.
The past of Thatcherism tells us one potential vision of the future to avoid: both in terms of savaging public spending and a mindset of bunkerism.
Scotland's budget may have been announced by the Finance Minister for the governing Scottish National Party, but it closed an era without opening the prospects for a new one
A conversation between two of Scotland's leading political commentators on the significance of anti-Toryism and what it means for the country and its politics.
The Scottish Labour Party has just finished its annual conference in Oban, and leaving aside Harriet Harman’s embarrassing self-induced own goal calling Lib Dem Danny Alexander ‘a ginger rodent’
We need an honest public debate about welfare that moves beyond the comforting certainties of "Tory cuts" versus "welfare scroungers" - people's lives depend on it.
The reflections of The Economist and Tony Blair on Scottish devolution are united by a sense that Scotland matters and that its politics, priorities and dynamics are a threat to the preservation of the existing order.
The Scottish left is in decline and crisis today, bereft of ideas and numbers. Yet a new generation of novelists provide hope of a conversation about Scotland which goes way beyond devolution and embraces genuine self-government.
The approach of the first anniversary of the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber, al-Megrahi has reopened sensitive feelings and wounds in the United States and UK and nearly derailed David Cameron’s first Washington trip as Prime Minister.
In the wake of the crash, the election and the Coalition budget, Scotland's leader repositions the National government he leads, in what could prove a historic moment for Scottish politics.
We revisit an article from 2007 meditating on the export of the possible break up of Belgium back across the channel to the country responsible for Belgium's creation in the first place
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, constitutional adviser to the Cameron government, embodies the complacency and conservatism of the British political elite.
