All posts by Dan Paris

Class and Power: Scotland’s Changing Politics

Nicola Sturgeon is now the first woman to lead the SNP, and will shortly become the first woman to lead

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There’s been a lot of talk about the potential of pro-independence candidates standing on a joint ‘Yes Alliance’ platform in

Against this background of social division Scottish Nationalists should not be surprised if their talk of ‘the Scottish nation’ is

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This article is written in response to Rory Scothorne’s ‘Riding the Unicorn’. Considering the often asserted social democratic consensus which

What about England? As the Scottish debate rumbles on, the discussion of constitutional reformists south of the border seems the

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George Galloway yesterday published a blog claiming that the Farage protests indicated the beginning of fascism and that Scots would

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“It always seems impossible until it is done.” Those are the words of the great Nelson Mandela. We stand at

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It’s not unusual for Better Together to be accused of scaremongering. We’ve not been afraid to ridicule the No campaign,

When we published our New Year’s Resolutions, we knew we weren’t being terribly original. The power of the list to

Too often the debate around the referendum is portrayed as a personal battle between political giants in Edinburgh and London.