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Centre on Constitutional Change
14 April 2025

Making Sense of Politics in ‘these islands’

At one time it was common to write about the United Kingdom as the fruit of a steady expansion of the English Crown into the neighbouring territories. The subsequent politics […]

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Centre on Constitutional Change
09 October 2024

It’s not all about nationalism

For the best part of a decade, Scottish politics was dominated by the issue of independence. However, nationalism is a complex phenomenon. Often, it is about constitutional change and sometimes that involves independence, but it also maps onto other political and social issues in complex ways.

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Centre on Constitutional Change
17 July 2024

All Still to Play for in Scotland

For some years after the 2014 independence referendum it seemed that old alignments had been replaced by a new nationalist-unionist cleavage. The results of the 2024 General Election suggest that this may have been a simplification.

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