What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as its architecture. Edwin […] Read More
Category: Scottish Politics
When Hugh MacDiarmid contested Alec Douglas-Home’s Kinross and Western Perthshire seat for the Communist Party in 1964, he achieved a tally of 127 votes. In […] Read More
Post-election analysis by Christopher Silver When Hugh MacDiarmid contested Alec Douglas-Home’s Kinross and Western Perthshire seat for the Communist Party in 1964, he achieved a […] Read More
What do the people want of the place? They want it to be filled with thinking persons as open and adventurous as its architecture. Edwin Morgan, For […] Read More
The 2016 Scottish Parliament election was never going to offer much in the way of change. A new staunchly unionist Tory opposition seems possible, as […] Read More
With one party so far ahead in the polls, Christopher Silver considers the post-election landscape in Scotland and asks whether the pro-Union parties will consider […] Read More
With the SNP’s manifesto launch, we now have a clear picture of how Scotland’s public affairs will be managed over the coming five years. As […] Read More
Any election that is a foregone conclusion is destined to be a mediocre affair. The election for the Scottish Parliament next month will go down in history […] Read More
It’s a Tuesday afternoon in late summer. The end of a school day. In the quiet suburbs of the city’s southside a 16 year-old Glaswegian […] Read More
Globalisation can’t help meaning that we’re all “in the same boat”; but on this noble vessel, most of the occupants can’t help being virtual “stowaways”, […] Read More