Political Parties
Can a New SNP emerge which speaks a new story of Scotland?
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
A new generation needs to take back [the SNP], listen to Scotland, break with delusions and pretences, and challenge the post-democratic values which have atrophied the SNP and blunted its political antenna.
A Broken Link? Support for Independence and the SNP
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Article
Date published:
One of the key developments in Scottish electoral politics over the last decade has been a strengthening of the relationship between constitutional preference and party choice.
The Scottish election: my conclusion after talking to all three pro-independence parties
Author / Creator: Richard Murphy
Media type: Video
Date published:
A video interviewing leading politicians from the SNP, the Scottish Greens and Alba about their economic approaches to the forthcoming General Election proved to be an interesting experience.
The National gave Murphy the opportunity to interview Drew Hendry of the SNP, Neale Hanvey of Alba and Ross Greer of the Scottish Greens.
Swinney’s Government starts as damaged goods
Author / Creator: Dean M Thomson
Media type: Article
Date published:
THE SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT is a reputationally challenged disaster-zone, struggling beneath myriad policy-outcome failures. There is a good reason John Swinney has emerged as SNP leader and new First Minister, unopposed. The leadership crown has become something of a poisoned chalice.
The SNP may be laid low but the call of Scottish independence is loud and clear
Author / Creator: Neal Ascherson
Media type: Article
Date published:
Polls saying the nationalist cause is no priority among voters are misleading. The aspiration to once again be a sovereign European state has only been strengthened by devolution
Labour and the Union
Author / Creator: Coree Brown Swan
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2022
Politics in Scotland since the independence referendum has been marked by the dramatic decline of a once dominant Labour Party
The Conservatives in Scotland
Author / Creator: Alan Convery
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2022
The challenges and opportunities currently facing the Conservative party in Scotland and whether it's time for them to go it alone.
The Conservatives in Scotland
Author / Creator: Alan Convery
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2022
The challenges and opportunities currently facing the Conservative Party in Scotland and whether it's time for them to go it alone.
Core vs swing voters: unpacking Labour’s electoral dilemma
Author / Creator: Zain Mohyuddin
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
Comparison of Labour’s core supporters with the swing voters the party is trying to appeal to.
Is immigration costing the Conservatives votes?
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
While there has been an increase in the number who think that immigration is too high, voters appear to be abandoning the Conservatives for a broader set of reasons.
Do Labour supporters back a softer Brexit?
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
John Curtice explores what Labour voters think about a closer relationship with the EU, looking at levels of support for specific ways in which Brexit might be softened.
Labour and nationalism
Author / Creator: Richard Haviland
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
How will Labour ever understand the independence movement if they don’t move beyond the same old tropes?
A major opportunity for Labour?
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
What is the position of the Scottish Labour Party in electoral opportunity?
The Crisis of the Story of Nationalist Scotland: Six Suggestions for a Different Politics of Independence
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2023
The SNP's feet of clay have been revealed. What now?
Where Stands Scotland after the SNP Leadership Election?
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
"Previously hidden assumptions and prejudices have been uncovered that will take a longer timeframe to fully do justice to."
The End of the SNP’s Imperial Era, What Comes Next and the Politics of Liberation
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
"A dam holding back powerful elemental forces [in the SNP] has finally burst.
Confronting reality: Why the independence conversation must change
Author / Creator: Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Analysing the crisis in the SNP and the future of the independence movement [during the leadership contest of 2023]
Downfall: How Class Contradictions Ended Sturgeon’s Dismal Rule
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Nicola Sturgeon should not be eulogised as some benign influence on Scottish politics. She ran-down the independence movement, and presided over the decline of Scottish society, argues David Jamieson.
The SNP’s new fundamentalism
Author / Creator: James Mitchell
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Fundamentalist/pragmatist tension has been at the heart of the Scottish National Party since its foundation.
Scottish National Party Leaders
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2016
Scottish National Party Leaders examines all the senior figures for the first time, and is essential reading for anyone curious about how this former fringe party evolved into a political phenomenon, changing not only the face of Scottish politics, but British politics as well.