Scottish politics
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
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Author / Creator: Lesley Riddoch
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2023 -
Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat Joyce.
Autonomy of Modern Scotland
Author / Creator: Lindsay Paterson
Media type: Book
Date published: 1994
No Scottish politics reading list would be complete without Lindsay Paterson’s Autonomy of Modern Scotland
Lobbying in Scotland
Author / Creator: Grant Thoms
Media type: Video
Date published: 2022
The use of lobbying in the independence campaign
The ‘Forward March’ of Scottish Nationalism and the End of Britain As We Know It
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2011
"For many of us in Scotland our exploration of self-government, wider self-determination and statehood, ... is about developing more fully and appropriately a politics and nation fit for the modern age than the decaying, decrepit embers of the "Ukanian" state."
The New Sociology of Scotland
Author / Creator: David McCrone
Media type: Book
Date published: 2017
A ground-breaking, comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society.
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 - 2021
Author / Creator: Mike Small
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
An anthology of articles written by all the big names in the independence movement.
Bella Caledonia: An Anthology of Writing from 2007 – 2021
Author / Creator: Bella Caledonia
Media type: Book
Date published: 2022
This is a book celebrating fourteen years of publishing and collaborations. We have taken the idea of ‘self-determination’ and began to ask what would that mean for us as individuals, communities, towns and cities, not just as a nation? We have taken the idea that we have been living through a mistake in our timeline. In Scotland we thought we needed a parliament, then realised it’s actually a democracy we need. Our question is: what does that democracy look like and how can we create it, now?
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.
Scotland: The New State of an Old Nation
Author / Creator: Murray Stewart Leith
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The country has transformed from the socially and politically conservative climate..to a nation contemplating a move to independence to achieve democracy and democratic legitimacy
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.
The People's Flag and the Union Jack An Alternative History of Britain and the Labour Party
Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan
Media type: Book
Date published: 2019
The Labour Party has and continues to be a British party and this will matter for the forseeable future.
Sceptical Scot
Author / Creator: Sceptical Scot
Media type: Website
Date published: 2014-
These pages are for all who care about Scotland’s future, regardless of how they vote: for party, independence/union, EU/Brexit. Sceptical Scot aims to provide a forum that is both broader and deeper than current online/print offers with a rich diet of well-researched, polemical, thought-provoking writing.
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.
The Case for Scottish Independence; a History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland
Author / Creator: Ben Jackson
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
An influential separatist Scottish nationalism began to take shape only in the 1970s and achieved its present ideological maturity in the course of the 1980s and 1990s. It was unusual in that it demanded independence not to defend a threatened ancestral culture but as the most effective way to promote the agenda of the left.
Contercast
Author / Creator: David Jamieson
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2017 -
Conter is a site of Scottish anti-capitalist thought. It aims to develop a radical, anti-capitalist class politics in Scotland fit to intervene into the crisis of the British state, the global order and Scottish society.
The Lesley Riddock Podcast
Author / Creator: Lesley Riddoch
Media type: Podcast
Date published: 2008 -
Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with Pat Joyce. If you like intelligent, quirky chat about Scottish society and culture, and Scottish, UK and international politics analysed from a Scottish perspective; this podcast is for you.