Making Plans for Nigel

By Mike Small Thursday’s confrontation between Nigel Farage and Scottish protesters has led people to question just why Ukip is so unpopular in Scotland. However, it is the wrong question Continue reading →

For A’ That Episode 5 – All Aboard!

For the fifth episode of the For A’ That podcast we ventured into a new area for us in that we had a 4-way discussion. Joining Andrew (The Peat Worrier) and myself 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 →

Scotland 3.0

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

Wedding of Mass Destruction

In place of doffing of caps, scraping and bowing Bella invites you to take your pick from a culture orgy of activities to celebrate the Wedding from Hell…

Troops Out

By Mike Small Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. -  George Orwell Afghanistan is little more than a sanitised bloodbath and if Cameron and Continue reading →

Huckster Nation

Mike Small writes: This is Scottish Labour going through its Edgar Allan Poe phase. It’s transfixing like a multiple pile-up. You feel slightly soiled just to be observing the process, Continue reading →

St Andrews Day 2010

Saturday saw people travelling from Dumfries, Fife, the Borders, Glasgow and across central Scotland to be part of the Building a Movement for Yes event. There’ll be a full report Continue reading →

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

England will run out at Hampden Park representing ‘Britain’ in 2012. What a depressing end to Gordon Browns dreadful attempt to stoke up Britpop-New Labour and the Imperial End Game Continue reading →

Growing Pains

An interesting piece by Elaine C Smith, Convenor of the Scottish Independence Convention in the impressively re-designed (but oddly static?) online version of Red Pepper. For me the Convention is still too Continue reading →

Team GB?

Tom Gordon – the hack who presumably has been brought in to alter the dangerously-close-to-independent-balanced-reporting on ‘the National Question’ that the Sunday Herald has been dabbling in these past few years, Continue reading →

From Glenrothes to EWNI

Norman Dombey puts a geopolitical question over at the Guardians Comment is Free: “What will be the fate of “Britain’s” nuclear deterrent if Scotland becomes independent? If the result of Continue reading →

Ability and Needs

The collapse of the financial markets, industries and associated ‘businesses’ presents us with a great opportunity as a world society. As the veil is lifted revealing the reality behind the Continue reading →

The Critical Community

In the wake of the most recent failure of will in Bali, its interesting to see who’s co-ordinating disinformation on the environment here in the Grand Old Ukania. I was Continue reading →

Democracy 2.0

On the night of Scotland’s greatest sporting achievement, I watched Scotland defeat World Cup finalists France in a bar in Burntisland. Due to the Sky connection failing frantic efforts to Continue reading →