Reform UK is on the march. Having won 14.3% of the popular vote and five MPs in the July General Election, it is now polling as high as 21% in Britain-wide polling.
Personally, I believe that assisted dying should be legal. For terminally ill patients facing imminent death, the ability to choose the timing and manner of their death is a profound expression of personal liberty. However, I have significant concerns.
How to learn from election defeat Following the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election in late 2023, I was asked to speak to SNP MPs and staffers at Westminster about the Scottish polls and the party’s electoral prospects. I was repeatedly told that they lost that by-election because of turnout: voters who had voted SNP in 2019 had stayed at home, not switched to Labour. If they could find a workable independence message, they would get “their” vote out.
When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. That phrase encapsulates the global economy’s interdependence and the centrality of the United States within it. The choices of Americans, from their consumer trends to their election results, have a wide-ranging impact worldwide, including in the UK.
MAGA Republicanism isn’t fascism, and President Trump isn’t a fascist. They represent a new brand of authoritarianism, just as dangerous to democracy and even more insidious
What do Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Lynton Crosby, Jim Messina, and David Axelrod have in common? They have all campaigned in elections outwith their own country.
Alex Salmond's death poses substantial questions about the future of the Alba Party and the Scottish independence movement now that their greatest modern champion has passed.
Contrary to common assumptions about Scottish politics, there is roughly as great a demand for right-wing politics north of the Border as there is south of it.
Next week will mark the end of Labour’s first 100 days in power, and the honeymoon is over, if it ever began. The Prime Minister’s personal ratings have collapsed, and the proportion of voters who now say they would vote Labour has slipped even lower than the 33.7% it won in July
Scotland is heading for one of our most fractured and potentially fractious, Parliaments in the devolution era come May 2026.
