Estonia – a country with a sense of common purpose
Estonia: A country that aims to be ‘the best version of itself in the world’. Phantom Power has produced the first in a series of videos on other countries. The first – Scotland Calling…Estonia...
Category: Independence
R B Cunninghame Graham – Aristocrat, socialist and anti-imperialist
In five 1999 BBC Radio Scotland programmes, now on YouTube, Billy Kay celebrates the fascinating life of RB Cunninghame Graham, one of the most influential Scots of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a...
A willingness to help and support a new state
How will an independent Scotland join the European Union? Expert Dr Kirsty Hughes on Skotia!Director of the Scottish Centre on European Relations Dr Kirsty Hughes explains the process and challenges for independent Scottish membership...
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...
The UK is a voluntary union of nations
“I’m going to set out briefly the ongoing regret the Scottish Government feels over Brexit. I will then explain some of the ways in which the Scottish Government will respond to Brexit. And in...
Of the people, by the people, for the people
In the recent SCOT goes POP Panelbase Poll the following question was asked about democracy. The UK government has said that it will not allow the Scottish Parliament to call an independence referendum even...
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...
