Willie Bain Articles

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...

Few people have taken their political party from the fringes of public debate to wielding untrammelled power. Clement Attlee eventually rebuilt Labour as a governing force in the United Kingdom after the near wipeout under the Tory-dominated national government in...

Last week’s Analysis programme on BBC World Service about the problem in Glasgow of poor health outcomes and lower life expectancy made for fascinating listening. First, it avoided the temptation to look at the issue through the misty prism of the referendum due in...

Today parliament debated the worsening humanitarian situation in the world’s newest and one of its poorest states – South Sudan. Political instability, and internal conflict within the governing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, has spiralled into the fracturing of...