Monthly Archive: December 2019
Prosperity to Scotland…and no Union
In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused something of a scandal when he proved that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery’s iconic portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie, a five foot high work done in...
UK system of government is broken
Leaving a 300 year old union would be much worse than Brexit, chant unionists. Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp of Business for Scotland disagrees. “If you … don’t expect the benefits of EU membership to continue then...
We will leave our door open
Terry Reintke MEP is a German politician and member of the European Parliament where she is a member of the Alliance ’90/The Greens, part of the Greens–European Free Alliance. This is also the group...
Claw-back becomes reality
The Westminster Tory Government has written to the Scottish and Welsh Governments to ask for legislative consent over a dozen areas where the EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill changes (that is claws back) devolved powers....
Scotland’s Right to Choose
The First Minister in a speech at Bute House outlined the democratic case for Scotland’s right to choose its own future, ahead of the publication of a paper titled Scotland’s Right to Choose. The...
Protecting the values we voted for
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister, has recently been described by numerous political commentators as one of the most gifted politicians of our time, admired by the European mainstream and feared by the fringes. She...
Media coverage disparity
As the dust settles on the 2019 election, elected MPs journey to London for the new Westminster session; members of the Labour party in Scotland toss barbed words at one another over its future...
Terry Howson exhibition
With the election over, there’s still time for some relaxation before Christmas, time to appreciate artworks instead of bar charts, and paintings rather than polling percentages. What better way to do this than to...