2011. Why I think independence is inevitable.
Spare a thought for Iain Gray this festive season He was by no means a bad politician – as his party discovered when they looked to replace him. But the abiding image of the 2011 Scottish...
View ArticleIndependence. It’s all in the mind.
In first ordinary philosophy seminars students used to debate the question of whether we can rely on the evidence of our senses to give us an accurate account of the real world. Is this a real table...
View ArticlePandagate. Those independence scare stories in full.
But they will never take…our pandas! I don’t know where the Mirror got the story that, because they were gifts to the UK not Scotland, we would lose Sunshine and Sweetie if Scotland voted for...
View ArticleThe status quo isn’t what it used to be.
The status quo isn’t what it used to be. In the old days, you knew where you stood when you voted No to constitutional change. You would be voting for things as they are – whatever arrangement...
View ArticleThe Bastards Are Back. How the Tories are all eurosceptic now.
It was just like old times. Wednesday’s Tory back-bench rebellion over Britain’s contribution to the European budget took me back twenty years to Maastricht, John Major and the eurosceptic tormentors...
View ArticleAre the Liberal Democrats more nationalist than Alex Salmond? Discuss.
First there was one option, now there is a whole raft of them. No sooner had Alex Salmond and David Cameron struck the Edinburgh Agreement, and opened the way for a single question referendum on...
View ArticleIt’s an OUT OUT referendum on Euorpe.
This isn’t an in out referendum on Europe, but an out out referendum. The PM says he will try to negotiate a new deal with Europe and put that to the people in a referendum. But he must know that...
View ArticleIndependence – it’s whatever you want it to be.
Sunday Herald 3/2/13 The Scottish Electoral Commissioner, John McCormick, caused a parliamentary row last week by suggesting that both the Unionists and Nationalists should get together and make a...
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From Sunday Herald, 16/6/13 I don’t know about the Scottish cringe, but I found Thursday’s Edinburgh Question Time toe-curling. It was a nightmare version of the referendum campaign, complete with an...
View ArticleAlex Salmond. He’s not gone away, you know.
A week is famously a long time in politics. Alex Salmond who resigned following the defeat of the Yes campaign in Scotland’s independence referendum, had been leader of the Scottish National Party...
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