Holyrood

Scottish Independence within the EU – with a Scandinavian Slant

The next Holyrood parliament

One of the most persistent category errors in Scottish political commentary is to treat elections to the Scottish Parliament as

In Danish politics, it is often said that the most crucial skill for any politician is the ability to count

I’ve made a wee video. In it, I talk about the Additional Member System (AMS) used for Holyrood elections. I

When people in Scotland discuss an alternative to the Additional Member System currently used for Holyrood elections, they often assume

I just had a look at the number of constituency and list votes in each region, and I have to

The SNP is now either the winner or the runner-up in all Holyrood constituencies. (Is that not the first time

I’ve already argued in another blog post that it really wasn’t the Greens’ fault that the SNP didn’t get a