Don’t fret about Scotland booing the National Anthem; instead let’s embrace our diversity.
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Sceptical Scotland Awaits a Positive Plan
A prize awaits parties which can lift Scotland out of its pessimism towards politics, the polling by Our Scottish Future indicates.
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Our weekly newsletter. This week: What we can learn from Kezia Dugdale.
Continue readingGERS: What You Need To Know
GERS figures: What they mean and what you need to know.
Continue readingNo, The UK Is Not a Unitary State
There’s been some pretty chaotic debate in the last week about the nature of Scotland’s place in the UK and relationship with it.
Continue readingAngus MacNeil and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Instead the SNP relied too heavily on boosterism; on a belief that if desirable things we said often enough, they would magically happen. It relied too heavily on events, expecting events to continue to go in its favour. But then they stopped doing so. Then Nicola quit. And the camper van story came along. And lacking even the comfort of a strong leader in whom to believe, the party is now turning in on itself.
Continue readingTime For The SNP To Dump Its Euro Fairy Tales
The SNP’s truth-avoidance on the EU insults our intelligence: a better path for pro-EU Scots is to work now to strengthen our ties with the continent
Continue readingA Rally For Change
OSF organiser Ross Newton reflects on the successful Stronger Scotland, Better Britain rally.
Continue readingThe Alliance for Radical Democratic Change is to be welcomed
As we head into the third decade of the 21st Century, it is high time that we enacted devolution comprehensively within England, and in so doing create the conditions in which a new, stable isles-wide partnership of modern states, the ‘solidarity union’ described by Mark Drakeford, could become a reality, to address the challenges and opportunities of our generation and beyond.
Continue readingPress Release: Leaders to Form New Alliance to Change UK
Press release on the creation of the Alliance for Radical Democratic Change, with joint comments from Gordon Brown, Mark Drakeford, Anas Sarwar, Tracy Brabin and Andy Burnham.
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