Dreaming big

This time next week the die will be cast. Will we have voted for our right to choose our own future, or to be denied that right for years to come? The last in this series of short videos for the run-up to the Holyrood 2021 elections.

Kindness and decency

Essential ingredients in the remedy for Scotland’s recovery from the pandemic, and compass points on the path to independence.

All change

The day we vote for independence absolutely everything would change. I’m 71. Will it be my generation who throw away Scotland’s future?

Ancient history?

What a 700-year-old document has to say about our 21st century path to independence and why we can take nothing for granted.

Michael and Luna

Self-belief drove us over the line at the Stade de France. Self-belief drives a young Scot to cross Canada on foot. Self-belief will drive us to victory in May.

The old story

… and why we need to let it go for good. Third in a weekly series of thoughts on Independence and the forthcoming Holyrood elections.

Progress and prosperity

Following the quite unexpected success of last week’s video, here are some more thoughts on the elections and Scotland’s prospects as an economically successful independent nation. I’ll post as often as I can between now and May 6, so please keep sharing!

Hope and possibility

This week, here are some thoughts on the May election. Please feel free to share widely. You can either share this page or direct people to YouTube using this link: https://youtu.be/aXUizxV2VD0

Voice of a nation

Gallery

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