Tag archives for independence
Dust. Settled. Go Scotland: a 7 item to-do list
For two years up to September the country was in fever pitch with friends, colleagues, families and strangers debating and cajoling each other on every issue we have. It was…
Smith Commission leaves the money at Westminster
The Smith Commission on further powers for the Scottish Parliament reported this morning and made headlines with the announcement to fully devolve income tax powers. However the package of new…
The Queen was not fit to be our Head of State during this debate. But what will we do with the castles?
It's time to start planning new uses for our Scottish palaces. Buckingham Palace, which, due to the embarrassing state of Britain is somehow still a relevant institution in this day…
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…
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…
No campaign straight-up lie about Lord Ashcroft indyref poll
Those hep cats over at Project Fear HQ have chosen a GIF, very much the Ryan Gosling of image formats, to present their spin on the independence referendum poll just…