Continuing a series of posts originally written through 2013/14 in the run-up to the first Independence Referendum. (First published as 96 Days, 13 June 2014) Sometimes an idea grips you in the guts and won’t let go. No amount of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Scottish independence
Voice of a nation
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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
Why, not how
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Continuing my series of ‘here’s one I made previously’ posts from 2013/14, this one considered the importance of acknowledging that support for independence is far from a wholly rational matter. (First published 31 January 2014) Much of the work I … Continue reading
Second time around
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Between March 2013 and September 2014 I wrote a number of blog posts in support of independence. It was an eighteen-month examination of my own very personal thoughts and feelings on the subject, culminating in the first referendum. Eight years … Continue reading
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
Declaration
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All last week, working in my garden under clear blue skies, I watched the geese streaming north, high overhead, making for their summer grounds in Greenland. I wondered if they had registered any new strangeness in the place they were … 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
Keeping faith
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I don’t feel the need to invoke Don Roberto in every post I write here, but it’s hard in this case to overlook his wry observation that he would rather see his taxes wasted in Edinburgh than London. August is … Continue reading
A mere appendage
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“Wherever I look, north, south, east or west, there is something that appeals to me as a Scotsman, there is something to stir one’s heart, something to make one feel that we are representatives of a distinct nationality—a nationality severed … Continue reading
A gleam of rubies
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On 23 June 1928, a large crowd gathered in King’s Park, Stirling to support the inauguration of the National Party of Scotland, one of the predecessors of the Scottish National Party. The date, by no coincidence, marked the anniversary of … Continue reading
Don Roberto & Me 