Category: Beyond Labour

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

Juliet Swann says both government and opposition is failing Scotland, and it’s time to call a moratorium on the simplistic either/or choice of independence and buckle down to the hard

AR Brown, a former Labour voter who bitterly resents the party’s stance in the 2014 referendum, says Scotland’s radical progressives will be in a knife-fight with the UK’s radical conservatives

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.  

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.  

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

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