by The Editor | Mar 3, 2018 | Politics
There’s a problem in all of this talk of ‘amending’ Brexit-related legislation. To be more accurate, there are a great many problems in all this. But I want to focus on just one. Or maybe two, if something else occurs to me while I’m writing, as often happens. The...
by The Editor | Mar 2, 2018 | Politics
Tenant Farmers Meet to Protest 24 Feb 2018: Cayman Isles Registered Tax Free Buccleuch Estates accused of ‘bullying and intimidation’ by tenant farmers who are having their tenancy ended. At a public meeting in Langholm last night the audience heard from Alison and...
by The Editor | Mar 2, 2018 | Politics
Yesterday was the day Mundell accepted the reality of another independence referendum. It was also the day the establishment blocked the Scottish government in the Scottish parliament. These were both parts of the same game. After what has been a particularly slow...
by The Editor | Feb 23, 2018 | Politics
At long last the Scottish Press has realised the impact of a Hard Brexit on Scotland….https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-food-industry-to-be-devastated-by-hard-brexit-1-4692221/amp?__twitter_impression=true …..and have finally found the guts to publish!...
by The Editor | Feb 7, 2018 | Politics
It all comes down to the issue of ultimate power. So long as Scotland remains in the Union, ultimate power will always rest with the British political elite. That power extends to the apparently trivial as well as the obviously vital. Because it is ultimate power, it...
