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From the Blog
Is it AYE or NAW? Rabbie the Bard knows it’s more subtle than that
Here's a letter I sent to The Scotsman but it wasn't published. There's a bit of a rush to set out the pitch for the Holyrood elections.There is an academic piece saying that the EU is under no obligation to accept into membership any "state" whose government does not...
read more“Independence” indeed!
Well, it's not every day you get a letter published in The Guardian The very idea that a win on a day, like a cup final or a medieval battle at Bannockburn, resolves complex issues needs to be full-on refuted. Secondly, the very idea that creating more borders on this...
read more“We didnae vote for it” is a plaintive cry
It is quite possible that the SNP will be the biggest party in Holyrood after the May elections, and no doubt they will have in their manifesto that that will give them a mandate to call another referendum. Boris Johnson is their best recruiting sergeant, but the SNP...
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