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Letters: The extent of child poverty should influence how we vote in May

I AGREE entirely with Mark Smith in his column (“A question that exposes the problem with our politics”, April 19) when he wrote about Scottish…

Andrew Tickell: Devolution is over – it s time to face up to the new reality

‘THE choice is basically this: Does Scotland want to be a small, independent nation, likely back in the EU but with new barriers to trade and travel with the rest of the UK; or does it wish to remain in the UK, with its own powers over some areas but subordinate to the will of the English majority on others?” It’s a good question – you just don’t expect to hear a dyed in the wool civil servant with impeccable British state credentials asking it. Ciaran Martin was constitution director in the Cabinet Office between 2011 and 2014, responsible for negotiating the rules for what became the Edinburgh Agreement with the Scottish Government, paving the way for the first independence referendum seven years ago. Last week – in his new role as Professor of Practice at the University of Oxford’s Blavanik School of Government – Martin offered a startlingly candid account of the state of the Union as he sees it and the serious jeopardy the UK Government now finds itself in

Brexit has reinvigorated Scottish nationalism

Brexit has reinvigorated Scottish nationalism
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Lesley Riddoch: The BBC needs to improve their debate format to get more Scots tuning in

In real life. Take the other big political media event of the week – David Tennant’s cheeky stunt with Saltires as guest presenter of Have I Got News For You (HIGNFY). The Bathgate-born presenter played a medley of pictures featuring Union-flag-flanked Cabinet ministers and suggested the BBC might get into trouble for the programme’s own flag deficit. Announcing, “I think I can fix that,” a curtain of massive Saltires appeared behind Tennant who smilingly planted a small Scottish flag on his desk to laughter and applause from the London-based audience. It was a great and telling broadcasting moment, since independence-supporting Tennant had to get the BBC production team onside to bring off his masterful wheeze. Clearly HIGNFY is a bit of a law unto itself – but still. The Saltire moment was as eloquent as it was unexpected.

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