Continuing a weekly series of posts originally written through 2013/14 in the run-up to the first Independence Referendum. (First published 14 February 2014) Writing this on the day when that most unlikely of Westminster triumvirates [George Osborne, Danny Alexander and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Brexit
Connecting journeys
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Last time I posted here was back in April 2020, on the anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath. Since then Covid and other pre-occupations have intervened. But yesterday was New Year’s Day 2021 and the night before, at 11.00pm, we … Continue reading
English spectacles
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One of the many reasons I wanted to write about Don Roberto was to help me understand, and perhaps lend weight, to my own feelings about Scotland and Independence. Today, 31 January 2020, as Scotland is removed from the European … Continue reading
Robert and Nicola
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I was taken to task over my last post for not being sufficiently critical of the SNP. The reader pointed to specific policy shortcomings in investment and taxation, health and education—all of which, he added, are given a free pass … Continue reading
A Declaration for Independence
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The energy is rising, the momentum is growing. Less than a week after Scotland’s greatest-ever demonstration of support for independence, when more than 100,000 people marched in pouring rain through Edinburgh, from Holyrood to the Meadows, the following Declaration for … Continue reading
A matter of integrity
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In the course of a long career my father sat in both the Court of Session, as a Senator of the College of Justice, and in the House of Lords, as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Had he been … Continue reading
Don Roberto & Me 