IT is time to put my cards on the table: I am a Unionist. No matter how much of a “proud Scot” one might be, or however much one might dream of Bannockburn, our future is at stake and we have to be realistic. We cannot get away from the facts.
WHAT is a Constitution? Do we – in the UK – have one? Do we – in Scotland – need one? These questions are worth asking and answering, especially this week, when the “British Constitution”, in all its imaginary and non-existent glory, has been very much
IF the latest opinion polls are anything to go by, it looks like Labour are going to win the next Westminster election in Scotland.
THE Parliament of Tuvalu – a small island nation in the South Pacific – last week passed a constitutional amendment act.
HENRY Neville, an English republican political theorist, described constitutional decay as being like 'the French disease'.
Why hazard so much on a referendum called merely to settle an internal dispute within the Conservative Party?
ANTI-INDEPENDENCE commentators have dismissed the Scottish Government’s Building A New Scotland series of policy papers as pie-in-the-sky.
IT is deeply ironic that the Conservatives’ biggest campaign assault on Labour in 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections was that they would “take us back to the 1970s”. Under the Tories, we see the return of 1970s-style “stagflation” – the corrosive combination of low growth and inflation.
LAST Tuesday the Scottish Parliament, voting by 64 to 47, endorsed the Scottish Government’s paper, “Building a New Scotland: The Constitution of an Independent Country”.
CONSTITUTIONS are state-building documents. They establish the institutions of the state.
