Indy Poll

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Martyn Bennett, 1971-2005

“Try and find those things that make us Scottish. They are not necessarily tartan, but are no less colourful. They are in the sound of the kick drum, the bass line, the distortion, the punk guitar, the break-beat. Try and see the old ways in new surroundings.”

A Bit Rich

Show Me the Mone

By Mike Small Michelle Mone’s intervention in the independence campaign (‘Scottish lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone has threatened to move to England if Scotland votes for independence’) was the first big Continue reading →

Positivity

By Mike Small Pundits seem to be coalescing around the idea that a ‘positive message’ is an essential part of political campaigning (nothing new here, see Pat’s Juggernaut of Joy Continue reading →

Love Life – January

‘Love Life’ is Bella’s Agony Aunt column by Jamie Heckert… because the personal is political and the ‘state we’re in’ is complicated. Freedom, in Scotland and elsewhere, isn’t something that Continue reading →

Soundherd

This from Social Media Week Glasgow Crowdsourced Scottish Poetry Audiobook:

Bringing it On

By Doug Daniel  The 25th January 2012 brought the independence referendum another leap closer to reality, and did its best to shift the debate along, while not quite succeeding. We Continue reading →

Scotch Myths 4 – No Scottish Army

It should be remembered that it’s not actually a prerequisite of a nation to be armed to the teeth…

We Pay for This

Alex Salmond: Hugo Young Lecture 2012

Extract from Alex Salmond’s Hugo Young lecture (see video here): I want to reflect on the astonishing, and increasing, pace of change in Scotland. Devolution took a century to be Continue reading →

Something for the weekend: Big Burns Supper & Neu! Reekie!

by Kevin Williamson For anyone planning on being in the Edinburgh or Dumfries area this weekend, here’s a heads-up on a couple of events I’m involved with that might be Continue reading →

Braveheart Buddhists

By Andrew Barr “Independence isn’t just history.” That was the message of leafleters outside Scottish cinema screenings in the 1990s as Wallace rode onto our screens ready to free the Continue reading →

Decommisioning Dounreay: Babcocks or Starbucks?

by George Gunn Recently I was stuck between a conference where mobiles were verboten and writing a screenplay where everything other than the work in hand was verboten. But I Continue reading →

Max Headroom

By Doug the Dug The Labour, Conservative and Lib-Dem parties’ joint strategy is clear as all of them want a single question referendum. In or out, yes or no. A Continue reading →

Scotch Myths 3 – Devo Max

By Doug Daniel This wasn’t originally going to be the third in this series, but I felt the need to put it out there now, so here it is – Continue reading →

Why Indy Lite is Wrong

By Pat Kane It’s fair to say – along with the not-so-gentle student arm-twisting of a newly elected representative for the South of Scotland region – that the veteran SNP Continue reading →

Beyond Knoxian Theatre

By Thom Cross Scotland does it all the time. We were taught it at school and in the street, by grannies and the meenister; more significantly (ominously?) by our Scottish? Continue reading →

The Devo Deficit & the Independence Referendum (Part2)

By Donald Adamson As we saw in part one (see The Devolution Deficit here) , since devolution, the turnouts at Scottish parliament elections have been significantly lower than the turnouts Continue reading →

Scottish Independence: The Animated Version Of The Row Between Westminster and Holyrood

This handy short public information film on the week that was…from Taiwan’s NMA:

Empire State of Mind

By Gerry Loose These are the territories and countries that could never make it without England’s support. They would fail. They would fail. American territories east of the Mississippi (in Continue reading →

Vote Britain

By Alan Bissett People of Scotland, vote with your heart. Vote with your love for the Queen who nurtured you, cradle to grave, Who protects you and cares, her most Continue reading →

Let the i Generation In

By Kate Higgins If, even in the quietest moments, we wondered if we might sneak independence in by the back door, well, we ken noo.  One of the most contentious Continue reading →

Why have the Greens Disappeared from the Independence Debate?

By Justin Kenrick Great post Clare – many thanks. It points to the liberating possibilities that accompany recognising what holds you down, and the creativity and responsibility that comes with Continue reading →

Lilliput Nation

By Clare Galloway I awoke at 2am with my usual head-buzz about my house renovation, and the sustainability of my lifestyle at present… but rather than nodding off amongst ever-decreasing Continue reading →

Question Time

By Doug Daniel You don’t need a crystal ball to see into the future, the first edition of BBC’s Question Time gave a glimpse into the next 1000 days. Nicola Continue reading →

May You Live In Interesting Times

What exactly did David cameron think he was doing?

One Shot- Independence or Nothing

By Mhairi McAlpine The last few days have been a remarkable display of kack-handedness, arrogance and sheer stupidity on the part of Unionist politicians.  Attempting to seize the initiative on Continue reading →

Bad News

By Jamie Maxwell One of the most dispiriting aspects of the debate surrounding Scotland’s constitutional future has been the relentless, grinding superficiality with which the London-based media have covered it. Continue reading →

Scotland 3.0

Equality needs to be hard-coded into the new Scotland.