Deception
“Everybody knows Boris Johnson can lie for England. To his supporters, it was one of his best assets. They believed he could bamboozle the European Union into giving him the only Brexit deal that...
Category: Independence
Post-Brexit Britain – Failure and Fragmentation
The Sue Gray report may have been put on hold, but today the Met police concluded the law had been broken and issued fixed penalty notices to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his wife...
The Union: An aberration? – Part 2
Scotland’s education Much maligned by Unionists, Scotland in fact has a well educated population – the percentage of Scots holding post-secondary school qualifications continues to be the highest in Europe. Our universities are ranked...
The Union: An aberration? – Part 1
Little in the world ever remains the same Why do independent nations join together to form larger, more powerful countries? Presumably mainly for power and to exercise that power over others that are smaller...
A coronation like no other – Part 1
According to the Telegraph: ‘The Queen is to make a permanent move to Windsor Castle after not staying at Buckingham Palace for two years. The 95-year-old monarch has been “working from home” at the...
Ivan McKee on ambition and confidence
John Drummond is the host of the TNT Show on Independence Live. On episode 92 of the show, broadcast on 2nd March, John interviewed Ivan McKee MSP, Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise....
No questions asked
“British social and political institutions remain open to hidden influences from Russian and post-Soviet elites. Such weaknesses are chronic and institutional – they are not just about a small number of examples of wrongdoing.”...
The Union: a journey into the unknown
Politicians, commentators and posters have for years urged Unionists to make their positive case for the Union. However some of us came to the conclusion years, maybe decades ago that there is no such...
Scotland is blessed with enormous renewable resources but…
“Scotland is blessed with enormous renewable resources but it’s not blessed with a great many people, and people ultimately use electricity… So the best way to harness Scotland’s renewable resources is to look at...
If you want to do it…you can
As the independence debate once again ramps up, it seems timely to post this from Debate Night in June 2021. Andrew Wilson, economist, politician and now a strategic adviser to businesses, charities and a...
