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5. Reform UK has plans for Scotland

5. Reform UK has plans for Scotland

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15.03.2026 10

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3. Scotland’s teaching unions must be broken

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07.03.2026 8

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4. Scottish independence is sneaking up on Westminster

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21.02.2026 40

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Scotland faces its own revolt on the right

An unprecedented surge for Reform in May’s Holyrood vote will challenge the nation’s self-image

08.02.2026 6

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The Mandelson disease

07.02.2026 30

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2. Scotland has found its Mark Carney

31.01.2026 30

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5. Has Rachel Reeves’ Budget doomed Scottish Labour?

30.11.2025 10

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3. SNP control-freakery is strangling Scotland

08.11.2025 10

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The SNP has run out of ideas

11.10.2025 10

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Labour’s healthcare revolution hasn’t reached Scotland

04.10.2025 6

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Douglas Alexander: “We must be a remedy for Reform, not a replica”

27.09.2025 9

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5. Is Douglas Alexander the quiet winner of Labour’s reshuffle?

06.09.2025 10

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Has Nicola Sturgeon cursed the SNP for good?

22.08.2025 10

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Nicola Sturgeon is finally free

16.08.2025 9

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5. What John Swinney gets right about Scottish independence

02.08.2025 9

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John Swinney is lost in trans confusion

18.07.2025 8

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The welfare crisis no one is talking about

09.07.2025 6

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Dishonesty now rules Scottish politics

27.06.2025 8

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Inside the SNP civil war

13.06.2025 20

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The Hamilton by-election and the crack-up of Scottish politics

06.06.2025 5

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The populist right are infiltrating Scotland

04.06.2025 7

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Scotland has not turned against immigration

16.05.2025 10

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The SNP has reinvented itself yet again

09.05.2025 6

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How Scotland learned to love Nigel Farage

09.05.2025 7

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The SNP’s pious anti-Reform summit had no answers

29.04.2025 5

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Why the Scottish trans movement lost

17.04.2025 7

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Scotland’s public spending timebomb

11.04.2025 7

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3. The Scottish Greens are lost in the new world

07.04.2025 10

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Scotland must sell itself to the world

31.03.2025 10

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Scottish Labour needs to be braver

21.03.2025 10

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The SNP has entered a new, more serious era

14.03.2025 10

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The SNP’s defence headache

04.03.2025 10

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Can Labour rally in Scotland?

24.02.2025 10

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When will Labour tell the truth about Scotland?

14.02.2025 10

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Is the SNP renewing itself again?

03.02.2025 5

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Are Scotland and England swapping places on education?

24.01.2025 8

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Nicola Sturgeon still thinks she was right

19.01.2025 10

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3. Why the Scottish Tories are marooned

11.01.2025 10

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Scotland must tame its bloated state

20.12.2024 8

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Can Scottish Labour reverse the SNP’s recovery?

20.12.2024 8

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