Tom Gallagher is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Bradford University and is researching a book on why Britain’s ability to avoid the internal conflicts which have marked continental Europe is disappearing.
Perfect European storm approaches from Greece
The Greek elections threaten to send the Euro crisis into overdrive as the structural flaws in the whole project of monetary and political union risk an epic row. Can the project survive?
- 23 January 2015
UKIP currently clueless about fighting separatism
The UK could be tested to destruction if the SNP is turned into a major Westminster force by dumb UKIP electoral tactics in Scotland. And dumb tactics are exactly what UKIP looks to be going for
- 30 December 2014
No Papal bull for the Eurocrats
Belief in a progressive, kaleidoscopic multi-cultural society in which numerous lifestyles are promoted along with diverse ethnic cultures has seized the commanding heights of the EU. The Pope's moral clarity does not sit well with the Eurocrats
- 28 November 2014
The band plays on the broken Eurozone
The post-1999 currency union is easily the costliest mistake in the history of the European integration process, as Tom Gallagher's new book demonstrates with alarming clarity. Damage, damage, nothing but damage
- 9 November 2014
Scottish Labour’s aversion to winning
Next year, the SNP could hold the balance of power in Westminster. The reliable cohort of Scottish seats which Ed Miliband, the insecure head of UK Labour banks on to enter Downing Street, could suddenly vanish. Can Jim Murphy save them?
- 29 October 2014
The rise of Scotland the terrible
Some elements of the Scottish pro-independence campaign have harnessed, for political purposes, the social volatility which until now has played out in gang warfare and football rivalry. Not a pretty sight; but telling
- 13 September 2014
Scottish Self-Sabotage
The polls have narrowed in the run-up to the 18 September referendum and with its superior electoral machine some now think that the SNP may be unstoppable. If so, it's going to be an act of collective self-sabotage
- 5 September 2014
As referendum nears, scoundrel time in Scotland
With just a few weeks to go, Alex Salmond, head of the Scottish independence movement, and wanna-be, 'Braveheart', has shown himself to be the rabble-rousing, vacant-minded populist that he is. As for the BBC...
- 26 August 2014
The day the SNP abandoned its ‘civic’ nationalism
As Scottish pro-independence campaigners stoop to new lows in smearing and intimidating their opponents, it is increasingly clear that whatever the referendum result Scotland is going to be a sharply polarized country
- 24 August 2014
The world after Britain: An Australian leader gets it
Australia's Tony Abbott, a Rhodes scholar who shone academically at Oxford rather more completely than Alex Salmond did at St Andrews will know that the 1707 Act of Union was a liberation for many in Scotland. He also knows that a vibrant Britain is vital to the wider West
- 17 August 2014
Is cowardly Edinburgh fit for a global arts festival?
The intolerant, middle class protestors I witnessed at the Edinburgh Festival who, while the authorities looked on, silenced Israeli artists purely because of their national origins shame Scotland's great Enlightenment traditions, says Prof. Tom Gallagher
- 12 August 2014
Scotland’s man of destiny fluffs his big night
In the debate, Salmond tried but did not succeed in dismissing some of the practical obstacles which troubled doubters who might otherwise sign up for an independent Scotland. In other words, he blew it
- 6 August 2014
Without Britain Glasgow is on the ropes
Glasgow’s status as a vigorous service-based economy is strongly bound up with the preservation of the Union. The SNP has emotive bluster. But it can't answer, and doesn't understand, the real needs of a city whose fortunes, literally, are tied to Britain
- 26 July 2014
Euro opportunism: Cameron no match for Sikorski
The Juncker/Sikorski episode shows how little Britain’s voice counts in Europe, how alone its government is and how powerless it is to resist the creation of a form of technocratic absolutism which treats national parliaments and electorates with contempt
- 26 June 2014
A Latin American Pope and Europe’s Separatists
Even the Pope seems sceptical about Scottish independence. If he ever met Alex Salmond, Pope Francis, drawing on Argentina's history, would probably just see him for the populist that he is
- 18 June 2014
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