Scottish National Party

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 fork in the road

Author / Creator: Jonathon Shafi

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2023

Misplaced loyalty is coming back to bite the independence movement


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.


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. 


Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence

Author / Creator: James Foley

Media type: Book

Date published: 2022

What is Scottish Independence for?


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.


The National Movement in Scotland

Author / Creator: Jack Brand

Media type: Book

Date published: 1978

Traces the development of 20th century Scottish national thought and activity.


A Nation Changed? The SNP and Scotland Ten Years On

Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan

Media type: Book

Date published: 2017

A Nation Changed? Provides the first detailed and wide-ranging analysis of the SNP in office.


New Scottish government: key takeaways from the SNP deal with the Greens

Author / Creator: Lynn Bennie

Media type: News Media

Date published:

The parties are bound by a shared belief in Scottish independence, and the deal reinforces their intent to secure a second referendum. But they are each free to develop their own vision of independence because they have different perspectives on what an independent Scotland would look like


Scottish election: Alex Salmond’s Alba gamble could yet tip scales on second independence referendum

Author / Creator: William McDougall

Media type: News Media

Date published:

As the UK slowly emerges from the pandemic, a constitutional clash between supporters of Scottish independence and Johnson’s UK government looks a distinct possibility.


Left-wing regionalist populism in the ‘Celtic’ peripheries: Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party’s anti-austerity challenge against the British elites

Author / Creator: Emanuele Massetti

Media type: Academic Paper

Date published:

This article shows that the SNP and Plaid Cymru have adopted a left-wing populist discourse, based on a critique of austerity policies.  


Scotland: The New State of an Old Nation

Author / Creator: Murray Stewart Leith

Media type: Book

Date published:

At a time when Scotland's future has topped the agenda in Britain and abroad, this book unpicks the complex weave of Scottish politics, society and culture, providing an essential insight into Scotland's present - and its future.