There is little benefit coming to Scotland or the wider UK from projects like Rosebank or Jackdaw – or indeed renewables – as profits are siphoned out of the country by foreign companies, writes PAULINE BRYAN

Unwanted, imposed Tory interventions on Scotland fuelled demands for devolution, and today Labour risks repeating past mistakes if Ian Murray seeks to bypass Holyrood on spending, warns PAULINE BRYAN

With a lack of radical thinking from the Starmer-led UK government, support for Scottish independence is unlikely to evaporate any time soon – spelling trouble ahead for Anas Sarwar, argues PAULINE BRYAN

The party north of the border needs to have a serious think about how it retains its newly elected MPs in the future. How those MPs are able to assert Scottish policy in the UK Parliament will be key, argues PAULINE BRYAN

It is impossible to ignore the huge flaws in our unelected second chamber — yet despite Labour’s promises of consultation, PAULINE BRYAN argues that it is falling short of doing what’s needed to safeguard democracy

As Fergus Ewing’s suspension unfolds, the two paths open to the SNP become increasingly stark: upholding its progressive image amid growing conservative influences or sinking deeper into neoliberal rot, writes PAULINE BRYAN

The anti-boycott Bill ultimately acts as a way of gagging public bodies and must be opposed, writes Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN

Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN assesses a new report from the think tank, Our Scottish Futures

The First Minister’s commitments to progressive taxation are contingent on what he thinks will help the SNP electorally, warns PAULINE BRYAN

Talk in Scotland about a potential written constitution if independence is achieved should remind the left that this is something we too should be fighting for, writes PAULINE BRYAN

Introducing the contenders, PAULINE BRYAN argues that if the SNP was delivering on its promises and independence was around the corner, we would not see such a poor collection of nonentities jockeying for its helm

Under Sturgeon, SNP failures were inevitable — their empty opposition to the Tories masked their timid, neoliberal core. We must now wrongfoot them with an agenda of radical constitutional change, writes PAULINE BRYAN

PAULINE BRYAN assesses Gordon Brown's report on devolution and democracy

PAULINE BRYAN objects to the narrow scope of the SNP's new paper which fails to include any alternatives to full independence or keeping the status quo

The Subsidy Control Bill, which governs grants, loans, tax breaks and more, is being pushed through Parliament without proper input from the devolved nations of the UK, writes PAULINE BRYAN

The independence debate is sucking the material basis out of Scottish politics. We can’t just ‘get it out the way’ with a referendum – we need a third option on the ballot paper itself, argues PAULINE BRYAN of the Red Paper Collective

To protect ourselves from the agenda of the Johnson government, regions and nations should not wait for the outcome of an elite-led lengthy review but start the process now, writes PAULINE BRYAN

If we don’t decide what kind of future UK we want, the decision will be made for us, warns Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN

PAULINE BRYAN commends a new biography of the legendary women’s leader whose life included achieving suffrage, butting heads with Lenin as a Communist International delegate in Moscow and becoming a hero in Ethiopia's national struggle

PAULINE BRYAN explains how a new report on Scottish devolution aims to redistribute wealth and power in favour of the working class

Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN’s contribution to the This is What Democracy Looks Like conference on August 31

Regardless of the Brexit outcome, it is important that the UK looks at its constitution from top to bottom, or better still from bottom to top, writes PAULINE BRYAN