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Local government reform must not stop at Holyrood (opens the original)
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SCOTLAND should be wary whenever governments redraw the map and call it democracy. We have had local government done to us before. I served as a councillor on Clydebank District Council in the final years of the two-tier system. Later, I served on Glasgow City Council and then represented West Dunbartonshire at Westminster. Those were three different vantage points, but each taught me the same lesson: local government is never just about administering services. It decides where power sits, whose
An independent Scotland must defend more than its territory (opens the original)
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I ARGUED in my previous article (August 25) that water infrastructure should be treated as a responsibility of the democratic state. Keeping essential services working requires investment, skilled people and public accountability. Defence raises the same questions under more dangerous circumstances. What must remain functioning when a country faces coercion or attack, and what freedoms must survive its response? Independence requires us to answer both. Within the SNP, the usual suspects are agai
Scotland isn't immune from drought â we must start planning now (opens the original)
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SCOTLAND likes to think of itself as water-rich but climate change is beginning to expose a harder truth â having plenty of water in the country is not the same as having secure water where and when people, communities and businesses need it. On August 13, Sepa reported significant scarcity in parts of eastern Scotland, with many rivers experiencing low or very low river flows while normal to high flows persisted in the north-west. Its warning was straightforward: as rainfall becomes less pred
How Scotland's universities are tied up with the question of independence (opens the original)
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IN recent months, I have argued that Scotland’s constitutional debate has become too narrowly focused on powers and too rarely considers the institutions through which an independent nation would govern itself. Independence is not an end in itself. It is an opportunity to reshape the institutions that influence our economy, our democracy and our national life. Social democracy has always understood that political change without institutional reform simply transfers power while leaving old assump
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