IN THE FINAL PAGES of his new book The Shortest History of Scotland, Murray Pittock lays out a disconcerting irony: Scotland, once the world’s great educator, now has an education system that is less Scottish than it has ever been. This raises a rather perplexing question: how did we end up with a Scottish education […]
Day: 11 June 2026
Beyond Murrell: The five mistakes that broke the SNP
WITH THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY‘S POLITICAL STANDING at its lowest ebb for decades and the Scottish independence movement now holed below the waterline by the Murrell embezzlement scandal, it is worth looking beyond the current political fallout and examining some of the areas where the SNP clearly went wrong in the past. Having been an […]