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Christopher Silver

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Month: August 2017

Culture Posted on26th August 20173rd February 2018

Monuments tell us about ourselves as well as the past we used to celebrate

In Charlottesville or Charlotte Square: history is a nightmare that has to be confronted, says Christopher Silver. Recent events in the United States have provoked […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on21st August 201721st August 2017

How Yes can remain relevant in the face of political exhaustion

Scotland frequently struggles to remind itself of certain basic facts about its politics. Such is the lot of a half-country: with its lack of a […] Read More

Scottish Politics Posted on14th August 201714th August 2017

Responsibility, dignity, maturity – why angry movements persuade no-one

“Was it too busy in standard?” is a legitimate enough question to pose to a frontline politician like Yvette Cooper. You can imagine the sense […] Read More

Publications Posted on2nd August 20174th August 2017

A Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On

A Nation Changed? provides the first detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the SNP in office. It looks at how Scotland has changed and not changed […] Read More

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