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.
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A better future
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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
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
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
Bad nationalism
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What on earth would Don Roberto be making of Johnson (I take my cue from the commentator who advises against prefixing the B-word on the grounds that it serves to reinforce the brand)? What would he make of the pseudo-Churchillian … Continue reading