There are two theories about the fate of the many Tory voters who used to roam freely across the plains of Scotland....
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Scotland Articles
Scottish workers at the heart of reform
Away from the single-issue pressure-group politics of the SNP’s referendum, the Scottish parliament is trying to...
Northern and Southern Discomfort entwined
Labour in Scotland has a vested interest in Labour starting to win in the south. The outcome of the 2014 separation...
Better together
The Olympic Games gave an interesting backdrop to the start of the Better Together ground campaign, with Saturday...
Changing to win in Glasgow
Every election campaign is a learning process. Some lessons are enjoyable and some are hard to take. Labour’s result...
Getting back on track
I had planned to begin this article with the words, ‘We have a new leader’, but as I typed I realised that it would be...
Scottish leadership race gets into full swing
The process of electing a leader of the Scottish Labour Party is now in full swing, with all three candidates having...
Scottish Labour in flux
The Scottish Labour party remains in flux. The way forward is coming into focus, but we need to face up to and address...
Playing the SNP’s game
We’re going to have a referendum on independence. The SNP won the election, and at some point in this...
How Scottish Labour can start again
By focusing on the perils of independence, we discovered that ‘divorce is an expensive business’ had long...
Hedging on independence
This time their approach has been rather different. In fact, it would not be far from the truth to characterise the...
Gearing up to Holyrood 2011
The manifesto outlined Scottish Labour's top five pledges to women.The first is to improve the flexibility and...