This is one of the clearest and most unflinching pieces I’ve read on the reality of devolution after 25 years. @BPyper lays out what too many in public life are unwilling to say out loud - ie - That Scotland’s political culture has become stuck in a cycle of empty rhetoric, centralisation and gimmick policies, while real accountability and genuine improvement in health, education and infrastructure are nowhere to be found. Whether you agree with his conclusions or not, this article forces us to ask the right questions. Is the problem really that Holyrood doesn’t have enough powers, or that it has failed to use the ones it already holds responsibly? And if the evidence points to systemic failure, then surely we owe it to ourselves to explore bold alternatives, ones that actually bring power closer to people and rebuild trust in public life. If you care about Scotland’s future, this is well worth reading in full. It’s time we stopped treating devolution as a sacred cow and started treating it as what it was meant to be - a means to better governance, not an end in itself. @GrahamGGrant Full article: dailymail.co.uk/news/article…