THIS WESTMINSTER government is keen to talk up its opposition to separatism and claim Boris Johnson practices ‘muscular unionism’. That type of rhetoric is all
SCOTLAND’S nearly 150 years as an industrial powerhouse were sometimes replete with communal tensions. Economic rivalry between workers, religious differences, and occasionally fierce ones over the
AT THE Free Speech Union we are in the business of facilitating free and open debate and pushing back against the insidious and now widespread
SCOTTISH POLITICS is suffering from gangrene, that toxic combination of dead meat and a galloping infection. Reading the musings of what pass now for journalists
IT’S GROUNDHOG DAY. Again. The SNP wins an election and immediately demands a separatist referendum. The SNP has pretty much disowned the White Paper –
THAT PENETRATING legal mind Ian Mitchell recently argued that both Putin’s Russia and Sturgeon’s Scotland are places where the defining trademark of the ruling parties is bombastic
SCOTLAND WILL NEVER go back to being an EU country unless the rest of the UK does as well, and that seems pretty unlikely, not
LAST WEEK, Northern Ireland’s official centenary passed with a relative lack of fanfare and there were several reasons why the celebrations were muted. Firstly, large
THE STATUS QUO REMAINS. Despite the siren demands for a referendum the reality is the SNP is stuck. A very strong result for them, for
AS A TEENAGER in Scotland in the 1960s I joined the Liberal Party under the spell of Jo Grimond. I subsequently became Chairman of Glasgow
MEDIA ATTENTION galore has been lavished on the supposed incipient Scottish revolution. London-based political journalists breezily asserted last week that a constitutional tsunami was imminent which
BACK IN 2014, during the ‘Once in a generation’ independence referendum, you could barely move for outlandish claims that “Only a Yes vote can guarantee…”