Drone Wars
By Des O’Sullivan: UK Police are in talks with BAE to supply Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for surveillance purposes and hope to have them operational in time for the 2012 London Olympics. Their perceived… Read More
Monthly Archive: February, 2010
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The Sense of an Ending
As Broonland is launched we feature this extended article by Christopher Harvie. He writes: “Since the crash the UK political world seems to have realised that it’s rooted in nothing: so rapidly has… Read More
A Referendum on Independence for Scotland
“It’s time for the people of Scotland to have their say on their destiny…” Plans to give the people of Scotland their say on the nation’s future – including enhanced devolution and extending… Read More
The English Question and the Rise of a Zombie Political System
Gerry Hassan refects on the culmination of a strange political process and how radical change is a simulacrum for more of the same. The British constitution is in a bad way. The Westminster system of… Read More
Labour’s Fantasy Electoral Plan
Listening to Douglas Alexander’s evasive shuffling to James Naughtie a realisation dawned. New Labour’s internalised belief in themselves and delusion that there is still an ideological umbilical cord between Labour’s Old & New will be… Read More
Cut Trident Not Jobs
An opinion poll by ICM for Scottish CND at the end of January 2007 found that 73 % of Scots are opposed to spending billions on replacing Trident. We believe the presence of… Read More
Bad News (again)
This is a story about the telly, the tabloids and what’s still referred to, semi-seriously as ‘the Scottish broadsheets’. It may seem repetitive but the affect of the process is a re-writing of… Read More
The Battle for Mainshill Wood
This article from Rebecca Nada-Rajah on the recent battle for Mainshill Wood, where young people are leading the efforts to resist new coal against the powers that be… On the vision of a more… Read More
Everything But the GARL
The Lunchgate affair has been rumbling along nicely for the past week like a half-digested chicken tikka. Labour must be loving it. If today’s poll is anything to go by the drip-drip of… Read More
Hillsborough: Last Chapter or Opening Lines?
While unionists heave a sigh of relief that devolution is finally over, ‘settled will’, concluded, the bigger picture suggests a different process at work. A guest piece by Our Kingdom writer Tom Griffin.… Read More
Vice Captain for Englands Golden Age
You’ve heard the jokes. Not since ‘No clean sheet for Seaman’ had the jokes of the terracing been so widely and quickly passed around. The realisation that much more was about to tumble out… Read More
