Suchergebnisse

This contribution to the theme of 'Scotland and the Two Irelands' considers some of the overlooked ironies of the common bonds between Scotland and Ireland. Ranging between literary and political figures over the last two centuries it concludes that our intertwined histories are stronger than the borders between us.

This essay dissects the early premiership of Mr Boris Johnson with particular focus on his impact upon the Scottish Conservatives, and upon his biography of a previous Conservative Prime Minister: The Churchill Factor – How One Man Made History.

This essay uses Bruno Vincent's Five Brexit parodies to unpick Enid Blyton's wider legacy in British culture, and to understand our contemporary politics.

On the centenary of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, this essay offers personal reflections on its immediate impact and longer term legacies upon Scottish Catholicism. A century of Catholic state schools in Scotland has evolved very different Catholics – and a very different Scotland.

This essay situates Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election against a background of US political history. It considers the style and themes of the Presidential race and poses the question: to what extent did the gender of Donald Trump's opponent shape his victory?

The UK General Election of 2015, in which the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 seats, is likely to be a landmark in Scottish history. Moreover, for the first time since 1886, the victor in the predominant country in the Union – the Conservative Party in England – seemed to gain electoral victory in part by hostility to one of the partners of the Union. The article discusses the origins of this electoral tsunami. The immediate origin of the SNP landslide commenced with the disillusion with Scottish Liberalism, but its main victim was the Scottish Labour Party, seemingly fatally damaged by its alliance with the Conservatives during the campaign for a No vote in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. But whoever lost the election of 2015, it was won by Nicola Sturgeon, setting an example of civil debate untarnished by Westminster politics. Analogies with the politics of Ireland in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century cast helpful light on the present situation.