Dear Boris
This was on Twitter this morning. Maybe a few more of the Scottish people should write, respectfully, to the Prime Minister and point out the inaccuracies in his letter to our First Minister. Mention,...
Category: Politics
Democracy is not a one-off event
So there we have it. No three page missive setting out why Scotland can’t have a second independence referendum, but a hastily thrown together note full of lies. If this is the basis for...
Shackled to a dysfunctional political system
Ben Bradshaw, former BBC Radio reporter who during his career covered stories such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, has been Labour Member of Parliament for Exeter since 1997. From 2009 to 2010...
Union of Equals?
On Wednesday the Scottish Parliament voted by 92 votes to 29 to refuse legislative consent for the EU Withdrawal Bill currently going through Westminster. The Bill was described by Michael Russell, Cabinet Secretary for...
Aussies say ‘No’
These are the trade agreements we will no longer have once we exit the European Union. Today the Australian government, which is at present negotiating a trade deal with the EU, has rejected a...
New SNP Westminster parliamentary team unveiled
The new parliamentary session sees a new team in place at Westminster, throwing new members in at the deep end by giving them portfolios or making them spokespersons, and changing those of longer serving...
Like Peter Pan believed in faeries
Unionists who post on social media have certainly not gone on holiday over the festive season, but instead, with more time on their hands, have ramped up their antagonism and derision of Scottish independence....
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...
