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...
Category: Brexit
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...
The Tweed to Unst are the borderlands
The Common Weal Policy Podcast, episode 37 with special guest Bill Austen on policy and customs. Listen to Dr Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy and Research at Common Weal talk to Bill Austin, a...
To cease a 300 year old union
In this very well attended public lecture at the University of Edinburgh on 16 February 2020, Joanna Cherry MP sets out her thoughts on events of the last five years, the democratic deficit, constitutional...
Reading between the lines
A lot of very unhappy people on social media who were expecting the First Minister to announce a date on Friday. They are annoyed and lashing out, cancelling SNP subscriptions and calling for Nicola...
Auld lang syne
Peter Rowberry of Yes Berwickshire captured some of the scenes outside the Scottish Parliament on Friday evening as Scotland’s exit from the EU neared. This is a video of part of Tommy Shepard’s speech...
Brexit has happened
But despite the sadness and anger it’s so great to see this picture tweeted of the European Commission building in Brussels as Brexit became a reality. A light being left on in the EU...
Passion, patience and respect
Nicola Sturgeon sets out the next steps for Independence There is no denying the unhappiness at the First Minister’s speech this morning by those who had built up their hopes and anticipated a date...
Equality Nation’s petition to EU accepted for consideration
Equality Nation has just been informed that its petition to the EU Parliament on Scotland’s future has been formally accepted by Head of Unit, Libor Bohäč, on behalf of the Secretary-General of the European...
