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The Framing of the Scottish Independence Debate: A Tale of Two Referenda

By Gerry Hassan Two independence campaigns are now running in the UK: one on Scottish independence; the other which has become more public in the last week, on the UK’s Continue reading →

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Poundland

By Daniel Wylie The recent debate over the currency to be used by an independent Scotland has been drearily familiar.  The Yes camp point to the report of the Scottish Continue reading →

Meanwhile In Scotland

For A’ That 18 – From Shetland To Cyprus (with Natalie McGarry)

For the 18th episode of the For A’ That podcast Andrew and I were joined once more by Natalie McGarry who is standing for the European Parliament this week. We discussed a rather unfair Continue reading →

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Europe, the Left and Scottish Independence

By Emily Macintosh When discussing the EU in a Scottish independence context, the Yes campaign line is that a vote for independence is not insular or parochial, it is about Continue reading →

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EU’ve Been Framed

By Toni Giugliano If scaremongering wasn’t enough, the No campaign have now decided to plunge into the absurd. According to Alistair Darling an independent Scotland could be forced to wait Continue reading →

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Separatism

By Mike Small Cameron’s ‘Eurovision’ is a fundamental misreading of the mood of the nation (sic). While concerns about democratic deficiency are shared across the continent, there are quite different Continue reading →

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ERM – Automatic for the People?

A repeated claim of the Better Together campaign (and a  whole lot more) is that “Scotland would have to try and renegotiate an opt out from the Euro”. That’s not Continue reading →

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EU 2 Brutus?

So Cameron may walk into and flounce out of more EU meetings, he may renegotiate to his heart’s content, he may grandstand and bluster, he may shout loudly and wave a small stick, but all he can get out of it is what the other 27 states agree to…

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George Gunn performing at Neu! Reekie! this Friday

Venue:  Summerhall, Edinburgh Time: 7pm-10pm, Friday 30th November Caithness poet and Bella Caledonia columnist George Gunn will be appearing at the final Neu! Reekie! show of the year in Edinburgh Continue reading →

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Clarifying EU Membership: HC 643 The foreign policy implications of and for a separate Scotland (Source: UK Government)

by Kevin Williamson There has been conflicting opinions recently regarding an Independent Scotland’s membership status of the EU.  Below, in a document written on 24th Sep 2012 and subsequently published Continue reading →

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The Battle For The Soul Of Iceland Starts Today

Today, the good people of Iceland go to the polls for what has been described as the most important vote in their history. They vote on whether or not to Continue reading →

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Sophie Cooke on Ukraine: Behind the facade of Euro 2012

‘Why don’t you visit Euro 2012 and protest for us?‘  Ukrainian novelist Yuriy Andrukhovych by Sophie Cooke The diamond-encrusted presidential toilet is perhaps the most appropriate symbol of Viktor Yanukovych’s Continue reading →

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Who Owns Oil?

This article is relevant for anyone thinking about the longer-term issues about energy and Scotland. By Carmelos Ruiz-Marrero Repsol, a multinational based in Spain, has brought a class action lawsuit Continue reading →

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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 →

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Eorpa

By Mike Small Curious George Lyon has having a go at the annual parlour game called ‘Mibbes Aye, Mibbes Naw’ in which an independent Scotland’s membership of the Euro, the Continue reading →

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