Cleverer, not bigger
Jan Bebbington explains how the Prosperity Without Growth? report shows just how damaging a growth-based economy is, but suggests that alternatives can work
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The death of triangulation?
The decade-long attempt to position left-of-centre parties further into the centre ground has failed, as Henry McCubbin shows in the Euro election results
To know your place
In the month when the world comes to Scotland to sample arts from around the world, Donny O’Rourke looks at a book which talks about our art, here
Our fourth Afghan war
Bill Ramsay argues that the Coalition’s very presence in Afghanistan is the incubus for terrorism and this is enhanced by the tactics used.
Unifying the disaffected
Gregor Gall asks the newly formed New Anti-Capitalist Party what the experience of France might hold for Scotland and we can unify the radicals.
Reviews
Two MSPs, Bill Wilson and Elaine Smith, bring their different perspectives to a book on the constitutional futureof the UK and the question of independende
Web review
With the Big Tent being the theme of this edition what bigger tent could we have than the internet. In fact the growth of small bands of activists linking briefly and effectively to gain publicity for their common cause could be put down in the main to the internet and the messaging capacity of mobile […]
Comment
It is ten years since devolution - an obvious time to stop and take stock of what has happened in Scottish politics. And so the media and the commentators use the opportunity to reflect on what has been done and achieved and what not by the establishment of a Parliament in Scotland. But this only makes sense because of the neatness of anniversaries. In political terms, ten years sometimes means very little.
Progressives with a banker blindspot
Isobel Lindsay suggests that the SNP in Government has faced mainly left but with a right track
Issue 52: Ten Years of Devolution
Isobel Lindsay suggests that the SNP in Government has faced mainly left but with a right track; Bob Thomson explains why Labour is still losing; John McAllion considers whether the Left can put together a significant challenge in time for the 2011 Scottish elections; Michael Keating explores the variety of coalition options that could emerge […]