Tag: Nicola Sturgeon
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The Battle For Edinburgh Central
POLITICO, March 2020
It’s a proxy battle that could mean the difference between Scotland hitting the gas for independence or the Edinburgh government continuing its current cautious approach.
Last week it emerged that two heavyweight SNP politicians — Angus Robertson and Joanna Cherry — will fight it out to become the party’s representative for the crucial Edinburgh Central seat at the next election for Scotland’s devolved parliament in May 2021.
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Climate gradualism is a form of denial
Bella Caledonia, February 2020
On Wednesday, Paul Wheelhouse, the Scottish government minister for Energy, Connectivity, and the Islands, suggested that firms operating in the North Sea should start using wind turbines to power their oil and gas platforms.
This initiative is already being trialled in Norway by the country’s state-owned petroleum company, Equinor, Wheelhouse said, and could help the UK oil industry realize its “low carbon ambitions” ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow later this year.
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Scotland’s soft power strategy in Europe
POLITICO, December 2019
Subtle it wasn’t. At the Scottish National Party’s conference in Aberdeen in October, the yellow stars of the European Union were projected onto a giant backdrop of the party’s initials, flanked by two Scottish flags.
The party’s in-your-face Europhilia is not just a signal to Scottish voters — who voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU — that membership of the bloc is part of its vision of an independent Scotland. SNP leaders have been aggressively courting their counterparts across Europe, laying the groundwork for the next time the nation holds an independence referendum.
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Can Labour and the SNP work together?
Sunday National, December 2019
Next Friday morning, British voters will wake up faced with one of two stark political realities.
Either the Conservatives will have a majority in the House of Commons and Boris Johnson will return to No.10 Downing Street, primed for a full term in office and ready to trigger Brexit at the earliest possible opportunity.
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As The Election Gets Underway, Boris Johnson Looks Beatable | Sunday National | November 2019
Boris Johnson is beatable. That’s the core lesson from the first few days of this general election campaign.
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Can Nicola Sturgeon Save The Scottish Independence Movement? | Al Jazeera English | October 2018
This weekend, the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) meets in Glasgow for its annual conference. After more than a decade in power at Holyrood – Scotland’s devolved parliament in Edinburgh – the party continues to defy all the established rules of mainstream politics.
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The SNP’s Momentum Has Evaporated | Al Jazeera English | July 2017
In the strange and obscure world of Scottish constitutional politics, something can be utterly inevitable – until it suddenly isn’t. For most of the past ten years, and certainly for the past two, a widespread consensus has existed in Scotland regarding the inevitability of independence. That consensus has been based on the almost total dominance […]
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Nicola Sturgeon: The New Champion Of Establishment Liberalism | Al Jazeera English | January 2017
Not that long ago, Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon was the most exciting social democrat in European politics. She took charge of the SNP – and with it an absolute majority at Holyrood, Scotland’s devolved national legislature – in the aftermath of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. The SNP lost that referendum, but left-leaning Scots, […]
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Sturgeon At The Seanad | Bella Caledonia | November 2016
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Profile – Nicola Sturgeon: “I’m a child of the Thatcher years” | New Statesman | November 2014
During Scotland’s independence referendum, George Robertson, the former Labour defence secretary and Hamilton South MP, told a joke about his Scottish National Party opponents. “The Italian Mafia might make you an offer you can’t refuse,” Robertson sneered. “But the nationalists will make you an offer you can’t understand.” As the dust from the 18 September […]
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