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With the Scottish government’s reputation for policing and justice charred from nine years in office, here’s what the future looks like.
Why the ruling classes may think twice about landownership in Scotland.
New devolved powers, lots of parties and the indyref2 question … hold on to your hats, Holyrood.
Spoiler alert: we already know the winner.
More and more countries are shining lights on lobbyists’ efforts to shape policy. For all the hope of a new politics after the Scottish indyref, the SNP government is offering a limp biscuit.
New survey information puts paid to ‘shy Tories’ theory.
If Westminster and Holyrood don’t do the right deal over the Scotland Bill, here’s why they will be storing up more trouble for the future.
The SNP first minister has achieved popularity beyond most politicians’ wildest dreams, but the problems are piling up.
The first debate under principle of English votes for English laws was largely uneventful but foreshadows problems to come.
The Scottish Nationals’ emphasis on independence is an attempt to distract voters from the party’s woeful performance in office.
The union can survive its current period of volatility, but moves like English votes for English laws and ruling out a UK coalition with the SNP could yet bring it down.
Twelve months on from the vote on Scottish independence, there are no signs of constitutional healing - nor elsewhere in the UK.
The Scottish first minister’s speech may have been strong on vision, but there were no signs of innovative thinking on how new Scottish services would be funded at a time of BBC cutbacks.
The landed gentry don’t like the reforms that are in the offing. But that doesn’t mean there’s anything radical about them.
Haggis and Irn Bru have long since been usurped by politics as the greatest Scottish peculiarity. Here’s a bunch of nuggets on that subject that are all too often overlooked.
Regardless of what Corbyn would mean for England, at least he’d win back Scotland for Labour, right? Not according to this new analysis.
Her maiden speech has gone viral, but what Black does next for young people is what matters.
In threatening to derail a vote on fox hunting in England, the SNP has undermined its credibility as a voice for Scotland.
From rail strike threats to new anti-strike legislation, the Tory election success looks set to bring tensions to the boil in the coming weeks and months.
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