Monday 22 January 2018

Davy, The RAH And Their Part In The SNP Jumping The Shark

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Given the poor 2017 that the SNP had, with criticism mounting of their performance in government, accusations of putting the constitutional ...
Monday 15 January 2018

First Footing 2018 With The Best Of 2017

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First of all, can I wish you a belated Happy New Year and hope that 2018 is a better year for you than 2017. In 2017, we had 41 pos...
Sunday 31 December 2017

2017: The End of The Third Way

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At the start of May this year, many of the Anglo-centric punderati were lauding the rise of the French politician Emanuel Macron, and his el...
Monday 11 December 2017

The One About The UK City Of Culture

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Thursday, 6:30pm, The Library Bar : It is the day that the next UK City of Culture is announced, with Paisley up against Coventry, Sunderlan...
Monday 13 November 2017

The Day Today

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When someone becomes an ex-leader, there are normally two ways things can go. There is the back seat driver route, favoured by Thatcher and ...
Monday 6 November 2017

Waiting For Momentum

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Nothing perhaps tells us more about the reduced circumstances of ‘Scottish’ Labour than the fact that the current leadership election is fir...
Monday 2 October 2017

How Long Has May Got Left in Downing Street?

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A couple of weeks ago, the Independent’s John Rentoul tweeted that he thought that of the two main Party leaders, May would last longer than...
Tuesday 26 September 2017

The Most Dangerous Phrase in UK Politics

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You know that there are phrases which reveal something about a persons thinking – a laziness even when some sort of conventional wisdom is d...