Letting Scotland Down

Letting Scotland Down

So last week we all had a wee bit of a rammy, and the unionists were beside themselves with glee. That was last week. This is this week. Let’s at least see in it that we still feel passionately about what we are doing. It hasn’t been an easy week for independentista...
Common Sense

Common Sense

on failures of radical construction . . . Since the 2014 referendum result the independence movement in Scotland has spent the last three years bemoaning its lack of media clout in society. The ability to shape debate on balanced ideological terms with those who in...
Repeating mistakes

Repeating mistakes

This started so well*. But by the third paragraph it began to descend into pompous, woolly-minded nonsense. And it was all downhill from there. Fallacy number one. Nobody has ever claimed that the independence movement starts and ends with the SNP. Nor has anybody...
The end game

The end game

This has been coming for some time. From a British establishment perspective, devolution has gone terribly wrong. It was never the intention that Scotland should have a real parliament. It was never envisaged that we would have a real government and real political...