After the astonishing events of the 2015 election, offering to implement the Smith proposals in Scotland will not suffice. The Tories will have to think bigger.
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From spontaneous selfies to the spin room, the communications gurus have excelled themselves this time around
A Tory election win is the best scenario for the SNP. If Labour squeak home, it will need to find a better way forward
The only way to seize the initiative back from the SNP is to build on the Smith Commission through a new Scottish Constitutional Convention
David Cameron has said the number of people sleeping rough has gone down under the coalition. That isn’t backed up by the evidence.
Politicians promising to expand free childcare is no bad thing, but it is difficult to deliver in practice
Labour’s Scottish position could not be any more grim. Here are some suggestions for the long road back to contention.
The main parties are still a long way from getting full marks when it comes to tackling women’s financial disadvantages.
Ruling out a Labour arrangement with the Scottish nationalists will matter little after the election.
With the polls showing the Conservatives and Labour firmly stuck in neck-and-neck position, they are playing on multiple chessboards in a desperate scramble for votes. Their latest move has been to publish…
The SNP are the only major party that is yet to show its manifesto hand. Here’s why it’s probably not worth changing your plans to read it.
The Tories have been making great hay out of fears that the Scottish nationalists could cause havoc after the election. Here are three reasons why it’s not worth worrying about.
David Cameron says there are 9,000 more doctors and 7,000 more nurses than in 2010. He is right?
The Tories stand to save £1bn from shifting responsibility for occupational illness benefits on to employers. But even now, the system is failing.
In their first TV appearance of the election campaign, both party leaders took tough questions from Jeremy Paxman.
No sooner had Ed unveiled his £6,000 tuition fees policy than Jim confirmed the Labour agenda was different in Scotland. It shows how entrenched the differences now are north and south of the border
Many are decrying the film as merely conservative propaganda. But American Sniper – as with many of Eastwood’s films – has a more nuanced approach that addresses modern anxieties.
May’s general election is widely being viewed as one of the most unpredictable in living memory. Yet there is one prediction that can probably be safely made – the campaign in Scotland will be a very distinct…
Mesa, Arizona: a place with wide streets and narrow minds. Or so goes a once popular saying about this traditionally laid-back, conservative community that came into official existence in 1883 as a Mormon…
After the 2010 UK election, some individuals urged Labour to try to form a rainbow-style coalition with the smaller parties in the House of Commons. According to the maths, several potential groupings…
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