It has since morphed into “Muslim grooming gangs”. There is this racist, Islamophobic idea floating around that there is something inherent to these communities and their beliefs that leads people to ...

Scotland's idea of itself as an archetype of social democracy is the product of a bygone era. The left need to wake up to the fact that independence alone cannot bring a new politics, while the ...

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Political actors must always reckon with natural limits, structural bias, institutional inertia, vested interests and the actions of their opponents, not to mention irreducible uncertainty about ...