🗳️Unspun: Election Briefing: The Morning After the Day Before

🗳️Unspun: Election Briefing: The morning after the day before

SNP back for a fifth term, Greens surge to 15 seats, Reform rocks up to Holyrood and Labour wonders where it all went wrong.

Scotland sticks wi’ SNP: making sense of Holyrood’s election results

From the perspective of an England-based, Westminster-weary journalist with family ties to the country, Scotland’s political culture often feels like a breath of fresh air. There are a number of once-commonplace issues and policies that still resonate strongly in Scotland, which are considered somehow beyond the pale in Westminster: free university tuition; free prescriptions; accessible and affordable public transport; etc. Thatcher’s ghost sur…