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Author: Mark McLaughlin

Beyond Labour Opinion

The Playmobil Parliament

March 27, 2017 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin argues that Brexit has handed the SNP a mandate for a second referendum, and says both sides need to recognise the crater-sized holes in their arguments this time

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Beyond Labour Opinion

The age of rage

November 16, 2016 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin says the election of Donald Trump is an angry cry from a people suffering indignity and exploitation, but should not provoke a retreat from social liberalism or globalisation.  

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Beyond Labour Opinion

Are you a Nat?

October 7, 2016 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin says Scottish Labour members picked Smith because those who would have backed Corbyn already have the SNP, and use the term “nationalist” because they refuse to acknowledge their own nationalism.  

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Beyond Labour Opinion

Why Labour are losers

September 9, 2016 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin argues that, rather than appealing across the constitutional divide, Scottish Labour has made itself unelectable by both sides of it, by focusing on dry economics and abrogating its responsibility to engage on

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Beyond Labour Opinion

#Daisleygate: speaking truth to power

August 19, 2016 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin says supporters and members of the SNP have a unique responsibility to condemn undue influence on STV news by MPs who should know better.   Some of those who

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Beyond Labour Opinion

The death of Labour is a warning to the SNP

July 24, 2016 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin says the centre-left of the Labour Party has ridden the tiger of moral outrage, and now finds itself consumed. Centre-left politics in Scotland must not go the same way.

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Beyond Labour Opinion

What you can do for Labour

June 28, 2016 Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin, a PhD student in International Law and a supporter of Scottish independence, says in the event of a second independence referendum the Yes campaign needs the Scottish Labour Party.  

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