If the UK referendum was about taking back decision-making power from a larger body whose interests clash with those of the state, then so too is the Scottish case.

The Dutch center’s swing to the right has shown victory over extremism may involve some problematic compromises.

This is the level of surrealism that has been attained: the Archbishop of Canterbury is among those who are being lambasted as rogue elements in the UK government.

if Theresa May can’t find a way to make Scotland and Northern Ireland feel like their voices are heard, there may hardly be a Britain to go back to once Brexit is over.

It is perhaps not a post-fact world that we should fear, but a post-context world.

Moreover, she is faced with a challenge that neither one of her playground buddies had to face: an anti-establishment candidate from the left who is just as deft at grabbing his own headlines.

Politics is perception, and if a threat is perceived, it may be of little consequence that the threat is highly unlikely.

We fear that we’re looking at the sun rising over a new Reich and we’re watching as heads of state stand idly by and allow it to happen.

I have learned that American influence is a tricky thing, often ambivalent in the best of times.

To make a March into a Movement is a challenge, perhaps a larger one than we have seen in recent memory.