Ideas The politics of Scotland’s bookishness The country’s official embrace of literature reveals much about its comfortably stuck political culture, cosily immured from an increasingly illiberal world. By Scott Hames
The rise and fall of Wings over Scotland How a partisan pro-independence blog irrevocably transformed online politics in Britain. By Scott Hames and Dominic Hinde
Why Scotland is still trapped in limbo-land Constitutional deadlock has become a familiar state for Scotland, perhaps even the nation’s “settled will”. By Scott Hames
Who speaks for Scotland? The Alba split means that, for the first time since devolution, there is open conflict between competing visions of Scottish… By Scott Hames
The quiet collapse of Scottish unionism How the distinctive creed of “standing up for Scotland” within the UK has been replaced by one-size Britishness. By Scott Hames