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The clock is ticking
With all due respect to Dr Kirsty Hughes, there are a couple of rather significant flaws in her analysis. Most obviously, there’s the notion that the UK will not leave the EU until 2021. This is just plain wrong. One … Continue reading
Seen it all before
I take you back to 13 February 2014. That was the day British Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, ventured north from his London fastness to tell those uppity Jocks that if they dared to vote Yes in the … Continue reading
Independence! Nothing less!
We do not yet know whether there actually is a ‘special deal’ for Northern Ireland. But that really doesn’t matter. By even discussing an arrangement which allows NI to retain access to the EU’s single market the British government has … Continue reading
Democracy is not for sale
I wasn’t aware that the question of Scottish independence had ever been off the table. I’m know that British politicians and the British media variously, and often simultaneously, assert that the SNP is obsessed with the constitutional issue to the … Continue reading
The clock is ticking
There are three problems with this cunning plan to make the 2021 Holyrood election a referendum on independence. The first is list MSPs. The British parties are quite happy to have this device to ensure there’s almost always a place … Continue reading
It’s the law!
It’s going to be hard for many (most?) people in Scotland to hear, but Tusk and Juncker are correct. There really is “no room, no space for any kind of mediation or international initiative or action”. The EU has no … Continue reading
British Labour will never support independence!
Les Huckfield really must understand that there is no option for ‘Scottish Labour’ to back independence, for the simple and glaringly obvious reason that there is no ‘Scottish Labour’. Not in the sense that he appears to imagine. Not in … Continue reading
SNP Conference 2017: Being Scotland’s voice
Day three of #SNP17 and the walk down from Garnethill to the SECC is taking longer each time. My right hip is making it known that there bloody well better not be a day four. It’s growing noticeably colder too. … Continue reading
The straitjacket of devolution
Surely no sane, sober and sensible person can now deny that devolution is the problem. Always inadequate in every sense, devolution has come to be both an intolerable affront to democracy and an unsustainable straitjacket making good governance increasingly difficult. … Continue reading
Our flag defiled
Just over four years ago, as Scotland prepared to vote in the first independence referendum, I wrote an article about flags. It was a rather long-winded piece. Necessarily so, as I was exploring our complicated relationship with flags. I had … Continue reading
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