Mairi McAllan: the SNP’s reluctant firebrand
The 31-year-old Scottish MSP has been tipped as a future first minister – but does she even want power?
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JK Rowling is right to scorn Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act
The SNP sees itself as a vanguard of progressive values. But this priggish law is at odds with the notion…
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Scotland is missing elder statesmen
Holyrood lacks an equivalent to the cadre of former UK leaders who offer the wisdom of experience.
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The SNP isn’t ready for an election
Humza Yousaf and his party have nothing to sell to an increasingly desperate electorate.
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How “moral distress” is spreading in the Scottish NHS
In Scotland, medics find they are simply prevented from helping patients in ways they deserve.
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Why the SNP is pleasing no one on the economy
The party’s spending cuts are alienating campaigners, while its tax rises alienate business.
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Will the SNP now finally wake up to the NHS crisis?
Such is the decline of the Scottish health service that senior medics are now questioning whether it can remain free.
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Can Scottish Labour heal a fractured nation?
Anas Sarwar’s party could usher in a new era of collaborative politics with the Liberal Democrats and others.
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