49 years ago, Westminster buried a report on Scotland’s abundant natural resources to suppress growing support for Scottish independence. Laura Webster discusses the consequences.
In blocking democratically-passed Scottish legislation on gender recognition reform from becoming law, Rishi Sunak has hugely overstepped – and chosen short-term heavy-handedness over preserving the union, writes Nick McKerrell.
With the latest round of party apparatchiks sworn into the House of Lords, our political system is becoming more and more inflected by patronage and nepotism. The Lords is a place for political parties, not democracy, argues Aaron Bastani - in fact that, alas, is its point.
On this episode of #TyskySour Aaron Bastani is joined by Paul Mason as they discuss Labour’s election results. Did the commitment to a ‘people’s vote’ destroy any chance of winning?
Tonight Dan Carden MP makes his #tyskysour debut, on May’s speech, his journey to Westminster, and his brief as shadow minister of international development. With Michael Walker and Eleanor Penny.
The SNP surge north of the border can hardly be dismissed as a protest vote. Rather, years of Labour taking working class voters for granted combined with the galvanising effect of the independence referendum have forged a new opposition to the Westminster consensus.
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