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Abolishing the “progressive” hate tendency
A wee guest post today from Duncan Thorp, who’s previously written for us about social enterprise. Thanks Duncan! Here’s a simple experiment. Have a think about the names of political campaigns,...
View ArticleOver your cities Green grass will grow
The Labour party have looked about them, taken stock of the post-Blair wasteland and identified the enemy. which apparently is those well-known destroyers of democracy and oppressors of the common...
View ArticleScottish politics’ Old Firm
A few things have happened to me in the last few weeks which have reminded me of the importance of community to every aspect of our lives, and how this can be a wonderful thing. Last Sunday I joined...
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Why are Unite (the union) so determined to ignore their members and unite the...
Yesterday, in the heat of the Falkirk row, Lord Ashcroft published a leaked Unite strategy paper, written by the union’s political director Steve Hart. The main thrust is a discussion about how Unite...
View ArticleSoylent Green is… not real.
As has been covered by the UK-wide Green blog Bright Green, there has been a bit of a stooshie amongst some unreformed environmentalists after the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales,...
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Dunfermline athletics long game to kick off for Green goals
Cara Hilton is now firmly ensconced in Holyrood after what turned out to be a reasonable majority in the Dunfermline by-election. Her victory was assured using a scattergun approach to campaigning that...
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Three funerals, and a past that refuses to die.
Seamus Heaney in Dublin, 1985, protesting against the South African government The death of Margaret Thatcher should have been a chance to move on, were it not for the apparent idolisation of the...
View ArticleCommonwealth and Common Weal: The shape of things to come.
According to Nicola and Alex the world is watching, but the truth is that Britain isn’t even watching. If 2014 does turn out to be a momentous year for Scotland it will happen with a whimper down...
View ArticleNational or Northern? One is far healthier than the other
There was, for a space of about six months between the release of the White Paper on Independence and the Easter break, a huge upsurge in interest in the Nordic aspects of Scotland’s independence...
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Yes Together: Robin McAlpine, Wings Over Scotland, and the progressive...
Thanks very much to @pastachips for today’s fierce guest post. The transmisogyny of Stuart Campbell, aka author of pro-independence blog Wings Over Scotland, has been pretty devastatingly documented...
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Polling day
Like the French Revolution it’s a bit early to say what the referendum result means. The next steps need to be open, inclusive and fast but more of that in another post. In this I thought I’d talk...
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