Politics
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia
Author / Creator: Christopher Claassen Daniel Devine
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
The contemporary political relevance of imperial nostalgia in post-imperial Europe is its prediction of political attitudes.
How to Defeat the Far Right and Fascism in Scotland, the UK and West
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
The myth of British exceptionalism has collapsed in relation to the far right and fascism. Now in Scotland and rest of the UK it is time to wake-up.
Why the electoral system matters – Holyrood election 2026
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
How the electoral system determines representation.
Hamilton Again? A By-Election and the Fragmenting Map of Scottish Politics
Author / Creator: Fraser McMillan
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2025
Is this the end of constitutional polarisation?
Reform(s) coming home to bite
Author / Creator: AuthorArianna Giovannini
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2025
Mainstream political parties must deliver the radical reforms the country has long been crying out for, or run the risk to succumb to Reform
What Italy Can Teach about Reform UK’s Rise in Scotland
Author / Creator: Davide Vampa
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2025
Scotland may be on the brink of a political shift.
Home Blog 2025 Making Sense of Turbulent Politics In Multi-Level Europe Making Sense of Turbulent Politics in Multi-Level Europe
Author / Creator: AuthorDavide Vampa
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2025
European politics today is marked less by stability than by turbulence.
Political Change across Britain and Ireland
Author / Creator: Paul Gillespie
Media type: Book
Date published: 2025
Devolution is so much better understood as a living laboratory than a set of competitive league tables.
Boxing clever – a political rematch?
Author / Creator: David Anderson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Unionist tactics have worked; can the SNP box their way out of the corner?
How to defeat fascism and the far-right in Britain and elsewhere
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
The rise of the far right and fascism and raises big questions of why this has happened, how and to what extent mainstream politics has failed, and what can be done in the short and longer-term.
Britain Needs Change: The Politics of Hope and Labour's Challenge
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2024
Many see Britain as undergoing serious social, economic and cultural decline.
Labour, the Starmer Project, the Battle for Britain and Our Collective Future
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
This is an age of anti-incumbency. Yet the scale of Labour’s emerging unpopularity is striking.
The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland
Author / Creator: Ben Jackson
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The Case for Scottish Independence: A History
of Nationalist Political Tought in Mod-
ern Scotland presents itself as a major
and recent account of the intellectual
development of contemporary Scottish
nationalism.
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.
‘Civic’ vs. ‘non-civic’: a comparison of individual-level support for the UK’s pro-Brexit and Scotland’s pro-independence nationalism
Author / Creator: Edwrad Goodger
Media type: Article
Date published:
This article challenges the prima facie differences between the Scottish independence and pro-Brexit movements, drawing similarities based on shared promotion of nationalism, incorporation of populism, and policy radicalism challenging consensuses over austerity/immigration.
How did we get here? The SNP’s unravelling political strategy and the 2024 UK General Election.
Author / Creator: Mark McGeoghegan
Media type: Article
Date published:
For the first time in eight years, Scotland will have an election that is not first and foremost about Scottish secession from the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, understanding the dynamics of the constitutional debate in Scotland, and particularly the SNP’s failure to secure a second secessionist referendum and the disarming of the SNP’s most powerful electoral narratives, remains crucial for understanding how we came to this place in Scottish politics.
Can the SNP win on July 4?
Author / Creator: Kirsty Hughes
Media type: Article
Date published:
Just days before Rishi Sunak’s bizarrely soggy general election call, the latest YouGov poll gave Labour a lead of 39% to just 29% for the SNP. That would decimate the SNP at Westminster and let Keir Starmer claim to speak for Britain (if not the whole UK).
The Three Phases of Decolonisation : Lessons for Scotland
Author / Creator: Alf Baird
Media type: Article
Date published:
Self-determination is the process by which colonized and hence oppressed peoples become independent.
FFS explains: Political polling as 2024 begins
Author / Creator: Ferret journalists
Media type: Article
Date published:
It is the start of a significant year in Scottish politics, with voters likely to go to the polls in the first UK general election since 2019.
While polling currently puts the Labour Party ahead of the Conservatives UK-wide by a significant margin, in Scotland, the SNP’s decade-long lead among voters is coming under threat.
The party is also facing internal struggles over its path to securing independence, with polling suggesting the public is still split in its support for Scotland leaving the UK.
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