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...
Tagged: Scottish independence
The Union: An aberration? – Part 2
Scotland’s education Much maligned by Unionists, Scotland in fact has a well educated population – the percentage of Scots holding post-secondary school qualifications continues to be the highest in Europe. Our universities are ranked...
We can dae better
This video was posted on Twitter this morning. It’s Alan Bissett speaking during the 2014 referendum campaign, but his words are as pertinent and appropriate today as they were when first spoken. So listen...
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...
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...
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...
Another faceless Tory
Lord Mark McInnes of Kilwinning. Anyone heard of him? Anyone know what he looks like? Would anyone recognise him if, maskless, he bumped into you? Apparently Lord Mark has had an illustrious career, for...
Another country
Jamie Jauncey is not perhaps the typical independence supporter, but when you factor in that his great-great-uncle was Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (Don Roberto) you may begin to understand his embracing of the independence...
Hope, possibility and self-respect
A powerful and interesting video by Jamie Jauncie, great-great-nephew of Don Roberto – Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, best known for his involvement, with Keir Hardie, in the founding of the Scottish Labour Party, and...
Boris Johnson: the PM who set England free
Well, it’s been quite a week. Against all lockdown advice Boris Johnson decided he knew best and flew in to Glasgow airport to lecture the Scots on being good little Unionists. Not that it...
