Paul Mason
I’d unleash Ant, Dec and Darcey Bussell on our wilting political class
I would drag these guys kicking and screaming into a public debate. I would make the presenters the bad-est ass inquisitors in Britain.
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FactCheck: what we learned in 2014
Who were the heroes and villains of 2014 for Channel 4 News’s award-winning FactCheck blog?
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown and the last minute job offer
Gordon Brown leaves parliament only weeks after his successor Ed Miliband asked him to throw himself back into frontline politics.
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Gary Gibbon
Can Jim Murphy save Scottish Labour?
Jim Murphy is expected to declare his candidacy for the leadership of Scottish Labour in the next 48 hours, but some commentators say he has too much Blairite baggage to carry off the job.
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Gary Gibbon
Commons to vote on IS attacks
Parliament could be recalled as soon as Friday for a vote on military action against Isil in their Iraqi and Syrian bases. The government is increasingly confident it has Labour on board.
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Gary Gibbon
Are the Tories really backtracking on Scottish powers?
The political fight over Scottish devolution is raging, and the Tories seem unwilling to move unless the question of English governance is answered.
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Gary Gibbon
David Cameron’s English offer
David Cameron risks jeopardising a Scottish devolution project which he promised as recently as last week in a desperate bid to turn round a referendum here that was slipping away from him.
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Jon Snow
Scotland's message to Westminster
The referendum campaign has been an intoxicating democratic exercise in democracy. It represented something of a revolt against the Westminster elite.
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Paul Mason
Yes or no, this social movement is unlikely to go away
If it’s rough, and profane, it’s because that’s what street politics are like when ideologies collide. That’s what it was like when class defined British politics.
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Gary Gibbon
The devout believers of the yes and no camps
Ask supporters in either camp how they’ll feel if the other lot win and the word you hear most often is “devastated”. A yes supporter said she would want to slit her wrists.
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Gary Gibbon
The devolution offer – what’s it worth?
We are again dealing with the consequences of the no camp coming late to the alternative offer they thought they could put off until after the referendum.
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Alex Thomson
Tell it on the mountain: #IndyRef from the top of Ben Nevis
On his way up and down Ben Nevis, Alex Thomson encounters a range of views on Scottish independence from a Spanish woman, a Frenchman, a Belgian and a group of Canadians.
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Paul Mason
Celebrating Britishness: politics without the politicians
Maybe you can’t have a strident British nationalism. Maybe that’s the subtextual mistake all those lectern-banging politicians have been making.
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Gary Gibbon
Gordon Brown tries to bump David Cameron off the news
If it’s a no vote on Thursday, Gordon Brown will feel he played a central role in helping to save the union. Quite a few others will agree.
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Paul Mason
Deutsche’s ‘Wall Street Crash’ prediction goes über alles the airwaves
Deutsche Bank’s warning over an independent Scotland’s finances is all over the headlines. How seriously should we take it?