Alan Roden

Alan Roden is the co-founder of Quantum Communications. He is a former communications director for Scottish Labour and was the political editor of the Scottish Daily Mail during the independence referendum campaign. He recently launched the justice publication 1919 Magazine. 

Is Labour right to remain positive about this week’s Scottish by-election?

From our UK edition

Nigel Farage will make his first political visit north of the border in six years this week, causing intense excitement in the Scottish media. The Reform UK leader’s trips here rarely pass without incident, including the time he sought refuge from protesters in an Edinburgh pub or when a nearby branch of McDonald’s was asked by police not

Scotland’s politicians must take the Reform threat seriously

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Support for Nigel Farage’s party in Scotland is surging. This is despite the fact the Scottish group has no party leader, no parliamentarians and next to no operation on the ground. On his recent trip to Glasgow, Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice struggled to explain any devolved policies and even failed to remember the names

Alex Salmond’s curious relationship with the media

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This afternoon, Alex Salmond’s coffin, draped in a saltire, arrived in Scotland from North Macedonia. The chartered flight was paid for by Sir Tom Hunter, a billionaire philanthropist. ‘He deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth,’ Sir Tom wrote in a brief statement, praising the former first