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The notion that it’s for the people of Scotland to decide their future is relatively uncontroversial. It has been the organising principle around which Scottish politics has revolved for decades. Yet how self-determination is practiced has become a … [Read more...] about Whose Right to Decide? Scotland and Independence

For more than a decade, the question of Scotland’s place in the UK was at the front and centre of political debate – a determiner of voter behaviour and a precursor to the Scottish government’s legislative agenda. Through, and as a consequence of, … [Read more...] about A Quiet Union: The Calm Before the Storm?

For citizens in a modern democratic society, knowledge and the access to it is a necessity to enable us to keep the powerful in check. It is curious, then, that among the initiatives most regretted by former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was the … [Read more...] about The Guards Can’t Guard Themselves

As the leaves turn and the days grow shorter, the United Kingdom can hear whispers of change in the air as it enters a new season – party conference season. This annual tradition, which stretches back more than a century, sees the major political … [Read more...] about Conference season: Four constitutional questions that parties need to answer