“We are family”
“I will never ever let…” Sounds so authoritarian, not the sort of language expected in what is said to be a voluntary democratic union of equal partners.
Tagged: Scottish independence
What status quo?
Stories abound of people who when asked how they would vote in a Scottish independence referendum say they would vote No. Why, they are asked. Shrug. Just because. Just because what? Just because they...
“We were never truly independent until we joined the EEC”
Drew Hendry, Member of Parliament for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey hosts a series of interesting and informtive podcast – Scotland’s Choice which explores the different policy choices that could be made in an...
If Scotland leaves the UK…
Murdo Fraser MSP, a member of the Scottish Parliament, talking on GB News about all the advantages (oil, gas, renewables, electricity food etc) that WE (that is England) would lose if Scotland leaves the...
Building for the future
Vulnerable refugees and the ECHR Recently politics in the UK certainly haven’t been dull or boring. The very opposite, as concerns hit the level of fury over the asylum seekers selected to be deported...
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...
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...
