Jim Sillars

Jim Sillars has been a Labour MP at Westminster before establishing the Scottish Labour Party to advance a radical home rule politics in the 1970s and post-1979 joined the SNP. He was elected SNP MP for Glasgow Govan in 1988 and became Deputy Leader of the party. He has written a number of books: two autobiographies: Scotland: The Case for Optimism (1986) and A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey (2021) and two books on the case of independence including In Place of Fear II (2014).

Articles by Jim Sillars

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Review

30th Apr 2026

Scotland’s Wasted Decade after the Indyref

30th Apr 2026

Review

29th Sep 2025

Starmer and Labour’s failure to address Britain’s post-imperial delusions and decline

29th Sep 2025

Scotland

11th Mar 2016

Life, Energy, Ideas, Imagination

11th Mar 2016

Opinion

30th Jan 2013

Jim Sillars critiques Yes: Is he right?

30th Jan 2013

Scotland

21st Mar 2012

Jim Sillars: Dancing Around Devolution

21st Mar 2012

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