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
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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
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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
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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
Spring
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
SPRING. The project has been a long time in the curating and draws on radical and utopian ideas from around Europe and further afield. The idea is the brainchild of Pat Kane and Indra Adnan
Nationalism & the Far Right
Author / Creator: Nationalism & the Far Right
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2023
The far right in the context of nationalism.
Part 1: The Starmer Project
Author / Creator: Jonathon Shafi
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Analysing the meaning and mission of the Labour leadership
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?
Scottish elections: young people more likely to vote if they started at 16
Author / Creator: Jan Eichhorn
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
"[ in 2014] Newly enfranchised young people voted in greater numbers than slightly older peers. Social class differences in voting habits were much less pronounced among 16- and 17-year-olds in Scotland"
Political inequality
Author / Creator: B Ansell
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Political and economic inequalities are related.
The methods of Russian interference in Scottish politics
Author / Creator: George Allison
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
One of the key methods used by Russia to interfere in Scottish politics is through cyber-attacks.
Lobbying in Scotland
Author / Creator: Grant Thoms
Media type: Video
Date published: 2022
The use of lobbying in the independence campaign
Electoral reform consultation
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2022
Possible improvements to electoral law are set out including candidacy, voting, and electoral administration.
Opinion polling for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election
Author / Creator: Wikipedia
Media type: Statistics
Date published: 2022
Polling and results for and of the 2021 Scottish Government election.
Can Brown save UK democracy?
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
Review of Gordon Brown's political views from radical left to elder statesman.
Short Life Working Group on Facilitating Peaceful Assemblies: report
Author / Creator: Dominic Bryan
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Application of human rights is at the core of maintaining peaceful assemblies.
The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History
Author / Creator: Luke Savage
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
"The Dead Centre, a collection of essays by the Jacobin writer Luke Savage, probes the afterlife of Blairism—or, rather, its variants in Canada and the US. Gone is the hegemonic swagger of the Clinton generation. What we have now is a feeble rehash of the Third Way. Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau may think of themselves as hard-headed pragmatists ready to make painful political compromises for the sake of progress.
A Natural Fit? The Greens in Government
Author / Creator: John Curtice
Media type: Blog
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the decision of the Scottish Greens ... to take two junior ministerial positions in the SNP-led Scottish Government does not seem to have done them any harm at all.
The Scottish Political System
Author / Creator: James G Kellas
Media type: Book
Date published: 1989
"The enduring [Kellas] thesis is the notion of a Scottish political system. ...The orthodox view had been that the UK was unitary and uniform apart from the odd detail and embellishment." Bella Caledonia.
Scottish independence needs to offer “a shining city on a hill”
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Blog
Date published:
Previous generations have shown...ambition and intent when faced with what seemed insurmountable problems. It falls to us now to rise to the challenges of our age and make that future Scotland real.