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.
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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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Professor of Political Science, University of the West of Scotland
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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, University of Essex
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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 Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Paul Whiteley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Reader in Politics, University of Aberdeen
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Senior Lecturer: Politics, History and International Relations, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Director, Glasgow University Media Group, University of Glasgow
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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
