William Bain Articles

Germany’s Social Democrats are one of the great progressive and civilising forces in our continent, having stood fast against fascism and communism and ensured peace and prosperity in postwar Europe with governments led by chancellors of the calibre of Willy Brandt...

It has been a miserable last few years for Europe’s centre-left – going into this month’s general election in Spain, only nine of the 28 member states and one in three of the European Union’s population have a government led by the centre-left, and where we are in...

We are three months on from our worst electoral defeat in Scotland since 1918, and our worst defeat in England and Wales since 1987, but the clock is already ticking towards huge electoral contests in Scotland, London and Wales next year, and the next general election...

For the peoples of Scotland and the United Kingdom today’s cross-party agreement published by the Smith Commission is the right deal for a durable devolved settlement for Scotland. The vow made by the three main pro-UK party leaders in the House of Commons and the...