Abigail King
20 November 2024
Can the SNP stay relevant?
IndyRef 2 feels a long way off. The SNP need to show that they have something to offer for Scotland’s short-term future
Read the full article23 October 2024
Donald Trump, the most hated Scotsman in the world
Trump views Scotland as just one big golfing playground
Read the full article09 October 2024
Scotland’s drinking problem
Pressure is on John Swinney’s government as price rises are doing little to stop teenage drinking habits
Read the full article02 October 2024
Can Scotland save the Commonwealth Games?
Hosting the Games is expensive and complicated, but if it can keep Scottish sports on the world stage then it’s worth it
Read the full article04 September 2024
How to build Scotland’s new government
With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down
Read the full article05 July 2024
The SNP have been consigned to irrelevance
The party is now the minnow of British politics
Read the full article26 June 2024
Who is John Swinney?
Unlike Nicola Sturgeon or Alex Salmond, the new SNP leader doesn’t just lack a personality cult, but a personality to form a cult around in the first place
Read the full article12 June 2024
Is Sunak scared of the student vote?
In calling a summer election, the prime minister reduced the power of the younger vote in Britain’s university cities
Read the full article15 May 2024
Keeping connected by streaming
For Gen Z, online international streaming services have made foreign language media mainstream
Read the full article29 April 2024
How to collapse a government
Humza Yousaf tried to steamroll the SNP’s coalition partner. It cost him his career
Read the full article06 March 2024
Starmer faces a youth revolt over Gaza
The Labour leader’s stance on the conflict has left him out of step with a large number of younger voters
Read the full article21 February 2024
A Swiss lesson about neighbours
Cast adrift from the rest of Europe in self-imposed isolation, the UK is behaving like a spoilt child
Read the full article10 January 2024
Scotland’s slow road to independence
Gen Z’s belief that Scotland is heading for IndyRef2 is starting to falter
Read the full article27 September 2023
Students have turned their backs on Europe
Minefields of form-filling and red tape are deterring students from European exchanges
Read the full article23 August 2023
Welcome to Guernsey’s Island Games
Despite feeling both proudly European and international, the island has a close yet complicated relationship with the continent
Read the full article19 July 2023
The party is over in Ibiza
After 20 years of non-stop partying, Brexit and the pandemic have forced Ibiza to turn in for an early night
Read the full article22 April 2023
Are students as radical as we think?
A night at Edinburgh University offers a glimpse of Gen Z’s political future
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