Professor James Mitchell is one of the nation’s leading expert on the constitution, devolution, the Scottish Parliament and Government. If Mitchell were a doctor, and Scottish democracy the patient, then the diagnosis isn’t good. “That’s sad because our democracy isn’t the democracy many who campaigned for devolution envisaged. “The treatment of journalists by some political activists is very worrying – that’s scary in a democracy,” he says. There’s elements of our democracy that are flawed, but there’s no way we aren’t democratic.”

Source: The Herald August 28, 2022 17:55 UTC