Ambition for COP26
Yes, small nations and regions can make a difference in the fight to combat climate change and will be working hard to do so. If you think they won’t have a voice at COP26...
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Profoundly problematic?
On 17 October 2021 Dominic Raab, the UK Government’s Justice Secretary, told the Sunday Telegraph that the Government was considering making changes to the law on judicial review and to the Human Rights Act...
The Tories have “no plan, no roadmap, no thought, no intelligence
Many thanks to John Drummond of Independence Live for this fascinating talk with A C Grayling. Professor Anthony Grayling is a British philosopher and author of about thirty books. His new book For the...
Climate Week in a Climate Crisis
This is Climate Week NYC 2021. Ever heard of it? No me neither. But we shoud have. Our First Minister Nicola Sturgeon mentioned it today (Monday) on a video on Twitter. In this video...
The big myth of government deficits
How will you pay for it it the wrong question. The question should be how will we resource it? Stephanie Kelton is an economist and a leading authority on MMT or Modern Money Theory,...
Puerile and petty shenanigans
In the same week that Tory MSP Tess White heckled in Holyrood insisting that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish government and its policies were anti-English, meeting notes and WhatsApp messages seen by...
Walking a political boundary
Alasdair Allan lives on the Isle of Lewis, is MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar and Minister for International Development and Europe but was born and brought up in Ashkirk in the Scottish Borders....
Scottish independence: where would that leave England?
Gavin Esler, writer, broadcaster and author of How Britain Ends was interviewed on Liverpool Worldwide. Esler is in favour of a significant shakeup in the way the UK is governed with more power in...
A global priority
From 1st to 12th November COP26 will be held in Glasgow, bringing together parties to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The UN,...
Her heirs and successors
Michael Russell, former Scottish constitution secretary, now SNP President and political director to head up the indyref2 campaign, said in his National Roadshow interview with Callum Baird, that a constitution was not a prospectus...
