by The Editor | Jul 31, 2017 | Politics
I get the sense that Carolyn Leckie is close to grasping the essentials of how the new independence referendum campaign must take shape. But there are some troubling gaps and contradictions in her analysis. For example, she bemoans the complexity of the first Yes...
by The Editor | Jul 31, 2017 | Politics
I was 8 years old when the letter quoted below was written. 23 years later I was on ‘Uphill Gardening Leave’ prior to being booted out of the RAF for being gay and had taken to going for long walks which would often end in Sandy Bell’s bar, music and...
by The Editor | Jul 29, 2017 | Politics
What should frighten us more about independence than remaining in the United Kingdom is the thought of us all wandering aimlessly into our freedom. Now is the time to have visions and imagine a Scotland we want to free. Let’s try something a little different. There...
by The Editor | Jul 29, 2017 | Politics
The association of achievement and a Saltire sits ill with some Scots If a Scot anywhere says, give me my country to govern again, he is judged a fool, and everything is done to demean him and mock him. When an Englishman says he wants his country back to govern...
by The Editor | Jul 29, 2017 | Featured, Politics
The Mad Brexiteers shall, of course, dismiss this report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) as ‘scaremongering’. And, with its talk of soaring food prices, it certainly sounds scary. But is that enough to warrant regarding the analysis as unduly alarmist? If...
