Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…
Category: Scottish Politics
Glasgow is a city which has generated a massive literature of both fiction and non-fiction, including Irene Maver’s magisterial Glasgow,…
‘There is a lot of mythology about these events…’ (Sir Tom Devine The Times, 3 February 2018) …the deployment of…
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional…
British History
It should not be ‘a matter of £ s d.’: The Crown estate, foreshore and the public interest
One of the reasons for the devolution of the management of the Scottish Crown estate property to the Scottish government…
What’s the artist for in modern Scotland? Curating our accumulated history? Envisioning our possible and impossible futures? Diagnosing the ills…
It would seem that elements of the Anglosphere have always required a bogey or a multiplicity of bogeys. Perhaps other…
Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…
By Ben Clements. My Scottish Affairs research looks in detail at recent survey data on religious decline and secularisation in…