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....
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- Real or pretend change?
- JUDGEMENT DAY
- Wooden and woeful
- To those that have
- An era ends: “ane end of ane auld sang”
- “We are family”
- What status quo?
- No longer a happy family
- “We were never truly independent until we joined the EEC”
- Something very exciting
- It’s 19th October 2023
- Ditching the ECHR…ditching our human rights
- My rights, your rights, our rights, everyone’s rights
- If Scotland leaves the UK…
- Building for the future
- The quality of governance
- Levelling up lies
- Deception
- Fascism arrives as your friend
- “It’s utter crap”
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Politics and imaginary hobgoblins
‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.’ H. L. Mencken
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