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...
Tagged: Scottish independence
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...
R B Cunninghame Graham – Aristocrat, socialist and anti-imperialist
In five 1999 BBC Radio Scotland programmes, now on YouTube, Billy Kay celebrates the fascinating life of RB Cunninghame Graham, one of the most influential Scots of the 19th and 20th centuries, and a...
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...
The Tweed to Unst are the borderlands
The Common Weal Policy Podcast, episode 37 with special guest Bill Austen on policy and customs. Listen to Dr Craig Dalzell, Head of Policy and Research at Common Weal talk to Bill Austin, a...
To cease a 300 year old union
In this very well attended public lecture at the University of Edinburgh on 16 February 2020, Joanna Cherry MP sets out her thoughts on events of the last five years, the democratic deficit, constitutional...
The UK is a voluntary union of nations
“I’m going to set out briefly the ongoing regret the Scottish Government feels over Brexit. I will then explain some of the ways in which the Scottish Government will respond to Brexit. And in...
Reading between the lines
A lot of very unhappy people on social media who were expecting the First Minister to announce a date on Friday. They are annoyed and lashing out, cancelling SNP subscriptions and calling for Nicola...
