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A green party is in government in the UK for the first time.
Ahead of the Scottish election on May 6, the former Scottish Labour leader explains what’s at stake – and what could happen next.
Plus, how researchers have discovered a biological switch that can turn neuroplasticity on and off in the brain. Listen to episode 13 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
The ruling party took three of six seats in the European Parliament.
Scotland’s decision to reject the Brexit Bill may herald a national constitutional crisis.
Can internet voting bring young people to the polls? Here’s the evidence so far.
Even though they won the election in Scotland, the result will be portrayed as a loss for the SNP. So where does it leave Nicola Sturgeon on a second independence referendum?
More candidates mean a change in politics, but it’s not as easy as creating policies such as all women shortlists.
Spoiler alert: we already know the winner.
Haggis and Irn Bru have long since been usurped by politics as the greatest Scottish peculiarity. Here’s a bunch of nuggets on that subject that are all too often overlooked.
It’s obvious why the Smith Commission would never work.
Historically the fiercest rivalry in Scottish football is between its two biggest clubs, Rangers and Celtic. It has been off the agenda during Rangers’ period in the lower-league wilderness, but it is…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has, over the years, developed a reputation as a hotbed for alternative, edgy, and controversial performance. Graham Main’s Blood Orange is no exception. The play is a seething…
The Scottish Parliament prides itself in the number of visitors it receives. They might hope for a sighting of the first minister, but Margo MacDonald was the member the public was keenest to actually…
The publication of the Labour Party’s Devolution Commission leaves the Conservatives as the only significant pro-union party yet to declare what further devolution it would consider in the event of a no…
The Scottish referendum campaign has finally caught fire. After months of bland nothingness, the coordinated interventions of George Osborne, Ed Balls, Danny Alexander, and (most extraordinarily) Treasury…
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling
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Director, John Smith Centre, Senior Lecturer, School of Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Politics, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Democratic Politics, UCL
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Professor of Public Policy, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Political History, Queen's University Belfast
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PhD Candidate, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Political Science, University of the West of Scotland
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Reader in Politics, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
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Research Manager for Democratic Audit, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer in Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
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Head of Economics and Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute, University of Glasgow
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Postdoctoral Fellow, UO Institute of Neuroscience and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Oregon
