The Scottish left needs to talk about collaboration, not another party
Greens campaigning in Norwich. Image: Norwich Green Party. In the last week, thousands of people have joined the Scottish Green Party and the SSP. Tens of thousands have joined the…
A true democracy has no need for a silly slogan like 45%
Let's not romanticise this lost “Yes” with a slogan like “The 45%”. A Yes No question was always a silly way to settle social issues, it just provided a temporary…
“Why further powers for Scotland won’t happen” or “How Labour sleepwalked into a fatal Tory trap”
In the end it was Mark Ballard who called it right. “With a couple of weeks to go there’ll be a poll putting Yes in front, then Cameron will come…
Devo-Max was a perfect example of rotten Westminster politics
The referendum is over, and the no’s have won. With Cameron and Miliband trying to decide exactly what the no’s have won, now is a good time to very briefly…
Some thoughts on the independence referendum
With due apologies for the click bait style of this post, being awake for too much of the past 2 days makes coherent blogging difficult! 1. The results show that…
Every day’s election day
This is the third of three referendum night blogs. Read the first and second. "This is the beginning": Radical Independence, Green Yes and friends after the result at the National…
Wow! And that was just the start!
This is the second of three referendum night blogs. Read the first and third. National Collective tour as pictured by Documenting Yes. On a sunny day two years and four…
The spoils of 308 years of struggle
This is the first of three referendum night blogs. Read the second and third. Last night, referendum eve, I was at a local Greenpeace talk with Benny Wenda, exiled West Papuan…
Autumn’s here, and the yes campaign has a spring in its step
Ten years ago today I climbed to the top of Katahdin, the highest mountain in Maine. I'd walked 2174 miles up the Appalachian Mountains from Springer Mountain, Georgia to get…
South Africa: lessons for the SNP and for Radical Independence
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine has become a staple (some might say clichéd) reference point for many on the anti-authoritarian left. However in the lead-up to the Scottish independence referendum,…