Gerry Hassan

Scotland – choose your narrative.

Dewi on May 8, 2012, 9:29 pm

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Gerry Hassan just gets better: Rupert Murdoch, the Referendum and Rangers FC: Self-government has to be a democratising process and project, or it will produce a change in name only which won’t affect the lives and experiences of Scottish people. That entails nourishing a culture which is both honest and humble, respecting different viewpoints and challenging vested interests. This is an intricate balancing act, one which involves changing the public culture of Scotland, and aiding an ecology of self-government and self-determination …

Scottish devolution: Legitimising devolution rather than developing new Scottish politics

Mick Fealty on March 11, 2011, 2:57 pm

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Nice, typically probing piece from Gerry Hassan, asking if the Scotland’s settled view of itself as a progressive has actually benefited its people in the era of devolution: We need to ask if Scotland has told itself that it is this centre-left nation, anti-Tory, anti-New Labour – why has our politics not advanced this agenda in such a favourable climate? We have a Parliament with a host of political parties which profess to be social democratic, and a decade of …