Humza Yousaf has nothing to offer but reheated Sturgeonism
The First Minister’s anaemic, underwhelming Programme for Government won’t fill Scotland’s political void.
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Explore a diverse range of articles examining the Scottish National Party (SNP), covering its policies, leadership, electoral impact, and key debates surrounding Scottish independence and devolved governance.
Can Murray Foote save the SNP?
The new party chief executive has to deal with a police investigation, falling income and electoral slide.
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Is a Labour-Lib Dem coalition Scotland’s future?
The parties have governed together before and it could suit both to do so again.
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When will the SNP put itself before the Greens?
The junior partner is the biggest winner from the continuation of the discredited power-sharing deal.
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Rutherglen by-election: Labour’s key to unlocking Scotland?
The latest by-election could provide a chance for Labour to regain lost seats north of the border.
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What the plot against Humza Yousaf reveals
The Scottish First Minister is drowning, not waving.
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The problem with the SNP’s “well-being economy”
Humza Yousaf’s big idea can’t mask woolly and self-indulgent economic thinking.
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What is the point of Humza Yousaf?
The First Minister must show he has a purpose beyond the simple preservation of power.
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Scotland is falling behind in the digital race
Laptops and tablets provided by the SNP in the country’s poorer areas have simply disappeared.
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Why the SNP is eating itself
Vicious internal feuds at Westminster and Holyrood are a sign that panic is setting in.
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Orkney’s bid to join Norway is a symptom of SNP arrogance
Scotland’s ancient, far-flung communities have had enough of being mistreated by the distant and the ignorant.
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Nicola Sturgeon is back on form at the Covid Inquiry
This was the Sturgeon Scotland grew so used to – confident, eloquent and keen to land a blow on the…
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How to end the war between Scotland and Westminster
If Labour wants to preserve the Union it must treat Holyrood as an adult partner.
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Can Labour really save the Union?
For some Scots, a Starmer government will be their last shot at making the UK work.
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The SNP is living in a parallel universe
Humza Yousaf’s latest independence paper is yet another instance of the party doing the same thing and expecting different results.
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The humiliation of the populists
Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon have both been undone by democracy.
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Nicola Sturgeon could lose all that she holds dearest
If Sturgeon places anything above Scottish independence, it is her personal integrity.
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Why Scottish business is putting its money on Labour
After 16 years of SNP government, firms north of the border are increasingly impressed by Anas Sarwar’s party.
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More misery for the SNP as Nicola Sturgeon is arrested
The SNP’s difficulty is Labour’s opportunity.
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Alex Salmond bids to disrupt Labour with pro-independence electoral pact
The former Scottish first minister has written to all SNP MPs calling for an agreement between Alba, the SNP and…
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