Scottish independence Articles

The European Union referendum looks a little different in Scotland than, I suspect, it looks elsewhere in the United Kingdom right now. That is not just because of a pretty solid political coalition around the remain campaign, and some strong polling numbers for...

The ‘In’ campaign needs to start big One of my earliest experiences campaigning was in a European parliament election. I was handed a bundle of wholly uninspiring leaflets designed to convince people that the European Union had done things to improve their lives....

When the first edition of this book was published in 2010 the author had three books under his belt, a long treatise on the secretaries of state for Scotland, a posthumous biography of George Younger, and ‘We in Scotland’ on Margaret Thatcher’s uneasy relationship...

Never underestimate just how bad things can become, at just the wrong time. We have seen a perfect storm with the Labour leadership election, just as we saw one with the aftermath of the Scottish independence vote. Now we may see a third with the European Union...