Keir Starmer is letting a crisis go to waste
The Labour leader’s hyper-cautious strategy may put him in government, but not in power.
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Rory Scothorne
Rory Scothorne is a New Statesman columnist and is the co-author of Roch Winds: A Treacherous Guide to the State of Scotland.
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The radical potential of Scotland’s disenchantment with the monarchy
Scotland’s nascent republicanism leans towards liberalism and conservatism, but it has truly transformative potential.
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Scotland’s cosmopolitan turn
The rise of the Greens and the repudiation of Alex Salmond’s Alba shows why Scotland remains a progressive beacon.
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Stalling Scottish independence would strengthen the cause
The clearing of the constitutional fog would allow us to glimpse Scotland’s political and economic reality – and an…
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The limits of Caledonian Starmerism
The SNP has already mastered the terrain of inoffensive centrism that the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is trying…
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Why the left needs to develop a vision of national weirdness
In its familiar oddness the monarchy monopolises British strangeness, and so curtails popular expectations of real, emancipatory unfamiliarity.
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The story of anthrax island and Operation Dark Harvest
The 1980s ecoterrorist campaign to draw attention to the contaminated island, used for biological weapons testing in the 1940s,…
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Why the SNP’s economic strategy offers continuity not transformation
The muddled, contradictory shopping list is a consequence of the deep-rooted defensiveness of Scotland’s political economy.
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Why Scottish nationalism is simultaneously safe and stuck
Scottish independence isn’t a rousing, visionary cause but a glum complaint, too tepid to command popular sacrifice.
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