As the festive season approaches the political and media classes play their own party game which is as familiar as ‘pass the parcel’: guess the election date.
The end game
Scotland's nationalist government projects the confident vision of a country moving towards independence. But the cramped nature of much public debate inhibits the renewal it seeks, says Tom Gallagher.
Beneath the clash of argument over Scotland’s political destiny a workable and creative solution can be glimpsed, says Michael Keating
So the party is over for the Scottish National Party according to the British media. Victory for Labour in the Glasgow North East by-election shows that the SNP are incapable
Also published today at the Guardian's Comment is Free
Today sees the publication of the Scottish government's independence white paper. Last week Jim Murphy, Scottish secretary,
After James Naughtie’s laugh a minute, cliché-ridden put down of Scotland and the town of Kilmarnock, I listened to his latest jaunt on the Today programme into the northern territories with a mix of fear and trepidation
Have just listened to Jim Naughtie’s deliberately downbeat, dour and depressive journey north to Kilmarnock for the Today programme, searching everywhere for doom and gloom and not surprisingly finding
The future of Britain is at stake as the country heads towards an election year: a recent Scottish by-election gave Labour a surprising majority. Anthony Barnett takes this as the starting point for an exchange with Gerry Hassan on where a country with many parliaments is heading.
Talk of independence referendums are in the air; the question, the number of questions, who calls it and most recently the number of referendums.
In the last few days, Jo
Scottish politics seem to be at a key moment, attracting interest from across the UK and internationally, even winning the accolade of an editorial from the famously Londoncentric Guardian and columns from Jackie Ashley and Martin Kettle
