Opinion
The power of STFU
Yes, some incredibly hopeful and important discussion are going on just now on the independence front. No, you’ve not heard about them – but there is a very, very good reason…
Tales of the expected
The SNP isn’t even trying to sound like its various independence wheeze are serious or viable. This is a party that has reduced itself to the simulation of life, a top-down mess of incompetence and bad faith.
To save us all, invest in meat space
There is a youth loneliness crisis but it hides itself so we must look for its signs strewn across our culture. If we don’t acknowledge this, behave like it matters and do something about it, we’re in trouble.
We’ve been invaded – stop the bits!
There is a sudden, alarming rise in experts warning of an apocalyptic ending for our AI adventure in only a few years. It is only one example of why we literally can’t let tech sociopaths control our society, and why Scotland must act now
Politics can’t survive a bad information environment
If it feels like politics is becoming more and more detached from reality, there is a good reason for it. If we create an information environment where anything is true if you want it to be, we career dangerously towards ungovernability.
That’s Plenty! The church of Jack and Victor
Politics tries to hide it but the only morality it is interested in these days is greed and avarice. It is this which has done endless damage and only a moral campaign can challenge it.
100 days of nothing
You wouldn’t know it but it is 100 days since John Swinney finally won his own mandate – yet even he can articulate why this is a good thing. Scottish politics really has ground to a halt and looks set to stick there.
Is a change in the air on how Scotland is run?
It has been a slow process but the rise of debate and criticism of how Scotland is governed is unmistakable. It may not amount to anything tangible yet, but it’s a major step.
“Woke One” crazy? Perhaps. A wrong turn? Definitely.
On the left there is a backlash to a backlash to ‘woke’, and it just shows how self-obsessed we’ve become. It’s not about whether we liked ‘woke’ or not, it’s that key parts of our audience really didn’t.
Forget ‘opportunities’; what about lives?
Being young has never been easy but it used to be a transitionary stage towards a decent adult life. If that adult life is less and less available, what does our politics offer young people?
Paths to justice are closed and it is a moral hazard
People make mistakes and lots of societies problems are really complex and not easy to deal with. All that I ask is that when errors are made, they are treated with respect, reviewed and addressed – and that doesn’t happen in Scotland.
Fighting back against the ruling class’s reign of terror
Another milestone approaches in the battle against Scotland’s unelected ruling class, and this one is a landmark. A judicial review is going to examine whether they can do whatever they want all the time – or whether natural justice matters.