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Home A Bill to enable a referendum on whether voters wanted Britain to ‘remain’ in the European Union figured in…
Should we fear a Mugabe-style land grab in rural Scotland?
Are estate owners to be nationalised?
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Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, soon got used to the surprise of the Conservatives being returned in the general…
Zoe Williams’s diary: The return of the Tories means tears in the playground
For the 2005 general election, I had a party featuring a gigantic cheesecake with differentiated segments by allegiance. It contained…
Spectator letters: Silence in Scotland, the man who predicted the election result, and what to do with hair clippings
Scotland’s silent majority Sir: Hugo Rifkind’s article (‘Scotland’s nasty party’, 9 May) is a first for the media. It expresses…
The two Labour tribes preparing to go to war
A new leader will have to focus on winning, not sniping
James Runcie’s diary: A Willie’s shock at the SNP
I am writing a play about Dr Johnson and his Dictionary. It will be performed in Scotland later this year.…
After Miliband’s ‘tablet of stone’ stunt, I may just spend election day in the pub
You have the advantage over me. You know the result of the general election, whereas I do not — a…
Reflections on the revolution in Scotland
This was the Scottish election. Where next for the Union now?
The year that Scotland learned to hate
If the SNP isn't about Scottish purity and hating the English, why do so many of its supporters behave as if it is?
Welcome to Miliband country: how Labour would wreck rural life
A ‘progressive alliance’ would be a profound threat to rural life
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Home The prospect of a parliamentary alliance between Labour and the Scottish National Party injected an element of fear into…
What happens to politicians who insult the audience? Ask Dan Quayle
Any answers? Nigel Farage accused the audience in the BBC opposition leaders’ debate of being left-wing. Need insulting an audience…
Left-wing populism is on the rise - and may take Ed Miliband to No10
Would-be leaders of the left are harnessing the mood of angry populism
The SNP has replaced the Church of Scotland
The great SNP revival, and why it’s impervious to reason
Won't somebody please try to win this election?
The age of two-party politics is over: we know that because everyone keeps saying so. We are entering an era…
Do Scots really die that much younger?
The Scottish way of death Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would block a rise in the state pension age on…
A Scottish revolution is coming, and everyone’s losing their heads
Normally, if a candidate whose party came fourth in a constituency last time tells you they’re going to win, you…
A Greek default is coming – as soon as next month
Bored with the election? Switch over to the Greek debt drama. In this week’s cliffhanger, silver-tongued finance minister Yanis Varoufakis…
Is this election a Champions League game? Or Millwall vs Brighton?
I’ve been trying to think of a good football analogy to describe the battle between the two main parties as…
The election result that everyone expects – and no one wants
To form a coalition, David Cameron had to give up the Prime Ministerial prerogative to determine when the election was…
The fall of the Roman republic and the rise of Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond, the ex-first minister who proved incapable of making Scotland independent, has assured the world that he and his…
Alex Salmond sets out his terms for Ed Miliband
‘Would you like a glass of pink champagne?’ asks Alex Salmond at 3.30 p.m., sounding very much like a man…
The real threat to Britain (and it’s not the SNP)
What a load of mendacious balls everybody talks about Scotland. It’s like a disease. It’s like, you know how they…
Why Scottish public schools are in a field of their own
Scots public schools are a tribe apart, says Alex Massie
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