For some time now, I have been stressing the urgency of Scotland's predicament. In numerous articles and social media post I have suggested that the 2024 UK general election would be a game-changer for Scotland's independence movement - and not in a good way. I have marvelled at the complacency of Scotland's nominally pro-independence politicians … Continue reading ‘Muscular Unionism’
While I initially put the missed opportunity down to a failure to recognise it, I very soon realised that it wasn't just another instance of the dearth of strategic thinking within the SNP leadership.
I still can't decide which of the three is most wrong. What do you think, dear reader?
The Edinburgh salvo.scot hub has produced another bite-sized history lesson with Stuart McHardy.
The 'probe' into the Scottish Government's spending on the constitutional issue has to be one of the more ominous moves in the British state's continuing offensive against Scotland's democracy. And, yet again, I'm obliged to note that the move was entirely foreseeable but seems to have caught the Scottish Government unprepared. Although it must also … Continue reading The strangling
As we were wont to say during the 2014 referendum campaign, were the Union being offered to the people of Scotland now that we have a form of democracy, nobody in Scotland would vote for it.
The version of reality that Humza Yousaf is peddling in The National today suggests he is totally disconnected from observable reality ─ and wants the rest of us to be likewise.
Invoking Section 35 isn't so much a new and shocking development as merely the latest phase in a process which was foreseen a decade ago and more. It has been evident since 2007 that the British state regards devolution as a failed experiment. What was supposed to kill the SNP 'stone dead' had instead empowered … Continue reading As it was, so shall it be
The term 'Scottish National Party Member of Parliament' is, like 'caring British Conservativism' and 'British Labour socialism', an oxymoron. Each pairing involves concepts which are incongruous or contradictory. It may be possible to be a Conservative and to care about people. It may be possible to be associated with British Labour and yet have a … Continue reading Oxymorons
Peter A Bell 