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...
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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...
The road to indyref2
Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp of Believe in Scotland in conversation with SNP President Michael Russell. Talking about the EU and EFTA, currency, borders, pensions, work underway and planned, questions people want answered, and the independence campaign...
European Movement in Scotland webinar
Four experts with knowledge and expertise on the European Union, its views on further expansion and how a country needs to approach membership, were brought together for this webinar organised by the European Movement...
Is Scotland really unique? – Part 3
Part 3 of the response by Margaret Johnstone to Gerry Hassan’s article in The National, on those who voted No in 2014. Now to try and address some point made by Gerry’s focus group....
Europe Day
Today is Europe Day so it seems fitting to have a clip of Ode to Joy which has been adopted as the anthem of the EU. This is one which particularly appeals at this...
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...
Our human rights: post-Brexit are they safe?
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world, from birth until death. Human rights are relevant to us all, and protect each of us in many...
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...
Social and equality impacts of Brexit
Brexiters insist everything is rosy and will become even better after Friday 31st January, their independence day, when the UK leaves the EU. But the reality is otherwise. The pound, according to the Guardian’s...
