Scottish National Party
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.