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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.
Who is Humza Yousaf kidding on Scottish independence?
The SNP leader knows there is no prospect of him opening negotiations with the UK government – but is forced…
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Keir Starmer lands with a bump
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Will the SNP ever learn to say no?
Humza Yousaf’s strategy too often amounts to little more than handing out money.
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The SNP needs to set Scotland’s childcare sector free
Humza Yousaf should allow parents to choose how they spend childcare vouchers.
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Scottish independence is not going away
Long-term demographic change means support for separation will outlast the SNP’s travails.
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The Scottish state is broken
Under the SNP, the government has continually swung its great clunking fist only to punch itself in the face.
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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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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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