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Devolution: 10 years on

I don’t have anything particularly noteworthy to say about it, but I wanted to mark the fact that ten years ago, Scotland voted in the first ever election in the newly-reformed Scottish Parliament. I was too young to vote in … Continue reading

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Four bridges to four futures

  A rare example of journalism from the Scotsman, in the form of a feature on devolution, independence, the credit crunch and Scotland’s future. The author gauges the feelings of people living and working around the Skye Bridge, Forth Rail … Continue reading

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The Unravelling of Labour Britain

Significant changes are underway in British politics, and Scotland has a crucial role. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Scottish politics is changing, and that it is having important implications for the assumptions that UK politics is based … Continue reading

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