Unionism
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
Can muscular unionism save the Union?
Author / Creator: Iain McLean
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
The phrase ‘muscular unionism’ is new but the concept is not.
A voluntary union with no exit?
Author / Creator: Kirsty Hughes
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
"The UK is a voluntary union but the Scottish parliament cannot call an independence referendum without Westminster’s approval."
Why be against Scottish Independence?
Author / Creator: Jan-Pieter Atsma
Media type: Article
Date published: 2019
10 frequently heard reasons for opposing independence.
The Independence of Scotland: Self-Government and the Shifting Politics of Union
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Media type: Book
Date published: 2009
What this book brings out in an exceptionally lucid fashion, is that the Anglo-Scottish union derives much of its strength from its inherent flexibility. Keating encourages us to think about the extent to which its latest ‘crisis’ can be accommodated by this suppleness or whether constant flexing will result in a stress fracture
Scottish Nationalism: History, Ideology and the Question of Independence
Author / Creator: Richard Finlay
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
"SUPPORT for the Union in England can no longer be taken for granted and anti-independence messages around Scotland being “heavily subsidised” could backfire" The National
Brexit and Beyond: the union
Author / Creator: UK in a Changing Europe
Media type: Report
Date published: February 2021
What happens to powers that were formerly exercised at the EU level, but which fall within devolved competence, has been a recurrent source of disagreement between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.
Will ‘British values’ keep us together?
Author / Creator: Michael Keating
Media type: Blog
Date published:
The main threat to the union no longer comes from the nationalisms of the periphery but from the attempt by unionism to monopolise universal values and dress them with the nationalising language of Britishness.
Scotland, Britain, and the Union
Author / Creator: Ali M. Ansari
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
A unionist view of the importance of the union of Scotland and England.
Understanding the Union
Author / Creator: Iain McLean
Date published: 2020
In modern politics Unionism may be roughly mapped to social unionism, trade and security unionism, and nationalist unionism.
200 No to Yes voters tell us why they now believe in Scotland
Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland
Media type: Opinion poll
Date published:
A survey of 200 people who changed from "no" to "yes" showed multiple reasons. The main ones were:
- The effect of Brexit
- UK government incompetence
- Better Together lied
- Had come to have more belief in Scotland
- Felt NHS was not safe as part of the Union
A Sign on the Road
Author / Creator: John S Warren
Media type: News Media
Date published:
A critique of "Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom", and especially Alister Jack's view of Scotland in the Union.
Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom
Author / Creator: Alister Jack
Media type: Collection of essays by a Conservative Think Tank
Date published: September 2021
Is Scotland a Nation or a Region. MP David Cameron called Scotland a Nation in September 2014 in the run up to the Referendum. In 2021, Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, refers to Scotland as a region.