What is the point of Labour?
The leader of the UK Labour Party caused a bit of a stushie yesterday in Scotland with his comments on the Marr show and in the print media, his comments seen as a further...
Category: Brexit
Scotland will be back
Through history, language and culture we are European. The European Union is a unique force for peace and well-being. The UK and Scotland should be active EU members working with partners to promote democracy,...
Boris just pulled the pin out
The response from Kenny Farquharson, columnist with the Times in Scotland, said: “Boris just pulled the pin out and sat on the grenade.” So, at a time when former PM Gordon Brown is strutting...
Baffling with bullshit
Much has been spouted, hands waving wildly, by the Prime Minister, his Ministers and his Tory MPs, to defend the breaching of international law by the Internal Market bill. But no matter how ardent...
The perfect storm
This is a Twitter thread by Tanja Bueltmann, Professor of History who holds a Chair in International History at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. She specialises in the history of migration and diaspora, particularly...
How times have changed
That was a belief we all lived with. The Tories boasted of being the party of law and order, upholders of the rule of law, guardians of the unwritten British constitution, a world power...
The currency question
And when the Westminster ‘No’ often doesn’t mean ‘No’. Unionists insisting Scotland would not be allowed another independence referendum have recently appeared to change their tune, now wanting to decide the franchise for indyre2...
No deal and damn the torpedoes.
Sixteen months ago Michael Gove, MP for Surrey Heath and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, believed that a no deal Brexit would be very damaging to farming in the UK. Yet in that...
Our human rights: post-Brexit are they safe?
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. Human rights are relevant to us all, and protect each of us in many...
Passport controls and watchtowers?
We can all remember the gnashing of teeth, hand-wringing and crocodile tears, the assertions that family members would overnight become foreigners, and that heavily armed watch towers and miles of barbed wire fencing would...
