David Torrance
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David Torrance: The rise of political tribalism has little to do with policy and everything to do with identity
A couple of weeks ago, I attended an “in conversation” event with the American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild at Harvard University. → Read More
David Torrance: Airstrikes in Syria are far from ideal, but it’s better than nothing
Today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister will explain her decision to authorise airstrikes against Syria alongside France and the United… → Read More
David Torrance: Airstrikes in Syria are far from ideal, but it’s better than nothing
Today in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister will explain her decision to authorise airstrikes against Syria alongside France and the United… → Read More
David Torrance: Sturgeon faces some hard choices at home when selling Scotland abroad
The sight of Scottish ministers boarding flights to far-flung destinations in order to “sell Scotland to the world” has been a familiar one… → Read More
David Torrance: Sturgeon faces some hard choices at home when selling Scotland abroad
The sight of Scottish ministers boarding flights to far-flung destinations in order to “sell Scotland to the world” has been a familiar one… → Read More
David Torrance: Standing up for Scotland may be an impossible task for Ruth Davidson
In his new book, “The End of British Party Politics?”, the political scientist Roger Awan-Scully captures the paradox of last year’s… → Read More
David Torrance: Standing up for Scotland may be an impossible task for Ruth Davidson
In his new book, “The End of British Party Politics?”, the political scientist Roger Awan-Scully captures the paradox of last year’s… → Read More
David Torrance: Nationalist rhetoric is filled with increasingly desperate hyperbole
Perhaps it’s a case of the mid-term blues, but Scottish politics seems to be stuck in a bit of a rut right now. Nearly two years ago, it looked… → Read More
David Torrance: Nationalist rhetoric is filled with increasingly desperate hyperbole
Perhaps it’s a case of the mid-term blues, but Scottish politics seems to be stuck in a bit of a rut right now. Nearly two years ago, it looked… → Read More
David Torrance: How Brexit vote has left the SNP making the same historical error
“Scotland”, declared a young Alex Salmond in May 1975, “knows from bitter experience what treatment is in store for a powerless region of a… → Read More
Scottish Labour: Party torn down the middle on single market
Richard Leonard's first conference as Scottish Labour leader goes off well, but deep internal divisions remain, especially over Brexit → Read More
David Torrance: Why playing the history card could be key to Labour's resurgence
The Scottish Labour Party, I think it’s fair to say, hasn’t had a good decade. → Read More
David Torrance: Why playing the history card could be key to Labour's resurgence
The Scottish Labour Party, I think it’s fair to say, hasn’t had a good decade. → Read More
David Torrance: How Gibraltar learned to stop fearing Brexit
A few days after a majority of Britons backed Brexit in June 2016, this newspaper reported that Nicola Sturgeon had been in talks with London… → Read More
David Torrance: 'The SNP don’t really want to make nice with wicked Tories in London'
Shortly before the second general election of 1974, the late John P Mackintosh attempted to explain the rise of the Scottish National Party to a… → Read More
David Torrance: 'The SNP don’t really want to make nice with wicked Tories in London'
Shortly before the second general election of 1974, the late John P Mackintosh attempted to explain the rise of the Scottish National Party to a… → Read More
David Torrance: The SNP's independence proposition resembles another Brexit-like leap into the unknown
In “Painting Nationalism Red?”, an engaging new pamphlet published by Democratic Left Scotland, the journalist Neal Ascherson pays tribute to… → Read More
David Torrance: The SNP's independence proposition resembles another Brexit-like leap into the unknown
In “Painting Nationalism Red?”, an engaging new pamphlet published by Democratic Left Scotland, the journalist Neal Ascherson pays tribute to… → Read More
David Torrance: Why Sturgeon's next deputy leader won't change a thing
The American politician John Nance Garner is better remembered for something he said rather than anything he did as Franklin Roosevelt’s… → Read More
David Torrance: Why Sturgeon's next deputy leader won't change a thing
The American politician John Nance Garner is better remembered for something he said rather than anything he did as Franklin Roosevelt’s… → Read More