Can a second referendum ever be fair?
I always thought that a referendum would be the unfairest possible way of measuring popular support for the European Union. …
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Brexit and My Favourite New Statistic.
67%! This is now my favourite statistic. When I first encountered it – yesterday in the latest Scottish Social Attitudes …
2016 in the words of Tychy et al.
Bowie might have been the alien and the androgene to everybody else but it looks like to me, although I’d …
Making a Success of It.
International finance is no doubt presently wondering whether Theresa May, the stateswoman who will save UK capitalism by negotiating fiendish …
The End of the Road for Nicola Sturgeon.
The thistle has been squashed – the Declaration of Arbroath has melted – Rabbie Burns sounds suddenly like Edward Lear …
Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.
“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …
Grief for the Centre Ground.
During the 1990s, Tony Blair had cleared a designated space in the rubble of our politics and he had installed …
Arts Review: Surreal Encounters.
I visited Surreal Encounters, the summertime show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, around a month ago. Afterwards …
Democracy on Trial Postscript: Focus on Turkey.
And so, with officers being wrenched from the turrets of their tanks and most men in uniform with their hands …
A Tale of Middle-Class Hysteria.
“Nigel Farage has told a session of the European Parliament that “the little people” had rejected “big politics” in order …
Nicola Sturgeon: The Politics of Hate.
Following the Brexit vote, hatred has been unleashed across the nation. Demagoguery is currently at its most nimble, in seeking …
How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.
Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …
Democracy on Trial: The Verdict.
Democracy on Trial: The Future of Democracy.
It is after midnight and the Orkney Islands have just declared for Remain. As we wait for the results of …
Bad News From Antarctica.
On the day that the UK went to the polls, to decide on its membership of the European Union, there …
