Pick of the week: Scottish nationalism and Westminster confusion

"There has never been nationhood without falsehood." - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto View this email in your browser With the weekend almost upon us, we've selected our five most-read items of the week for you to catch up with. Here's what we have for you today: A piece from the SNP conference last week, which suggested the success of the party was more to do with emotion than reason. An article which looked at Jeremy Corbyn's appointment of Seumas Milne as executive director of strategy and communications. A view on reports that police are directing their resources away from chasing cannabis users. A report on this week's Commons debate on the psychoactive substances bill. It suggested there was much confusion over the bill, even by those in charge of it. And our most-read item is our story that a Tory MP said the SNP 'need to be on their planes back' to Scotland. The rise of the SNP is based on emotion, not reason   On Oct 23, 2015 10:26 am Nicola Sturgeon brilliantly harnessed Scots' natural patriotism in her conference speech Read more... » Milne appointment shows Corbyn has no interest reaching past his core support   On Oct 23, 2015 10:26 am Milne won't help Corbyn to reach out to undecided or Tory voters Read more... » As police turn away from cannabis, MPs invent even more drug laws   On Oct 23, 2015 10:27 am Police are showing more sense of proportion in their handling of the drugs issue than MPs are Read more... » The minister in charge of the legal highs bill doesn't understand his own legislation   On Oct 23, 2015 10:27 am Yesterday's debate on the psychoactive substances bill shows how meaningless the legislation is Read more... » SNP MPs 'need to be on their planes back' to Scotland   On Oct 23, 2015 10:28 am MPs to vote on restricting the rights of non-English MPs Read more... »     Opinion Former videos   Could you eat 12,000 potatoes?   On Oct 20, 2015 04:38 pm Animation explaining how Maximum Residue Levels and thorough testing ensure that pesticides are safe for human health and the environment. Read more... » APIL has been fighting for the rights of injured people for over 25 years   On Oct 16, 2015 09:06 am Every day too many people are needlessly injured because others did not take, or could not be bothered to take, proper care. Read more... »     Jobs and courses   Self-shooting video journalist   On Jun 24, 2015 04:10 pm Politics.co.uk is seeking to recruit a self-shooting video journalist to work out of our offices in east London. Read more... »     Facebook Twitter Website Copyright © 2015 Politics.co.uk (Adfero Media Ltd), All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at www.politics.co.uk Our mailing address is: Politics.co.uk (Adfero Media Ltd) 501 Metropolitan Wharf Building 70 Wapping Wall London, E1W 3SS United Kingdom Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences