Opinion
Let’s play ‘Fiddle or Muddle’
Look, everyone orders a ferry, overrules the legal advice and then loses all the paperwork. These things happen. So let’s be reasonable and play… Fiddle or Muddle
Who are Scotland’s voices?
In the years since devolution there has been a significant shift in which voices get to define Scotland – and not for the better
Self-satisfied while the world burns
The developed nations seem quite chuffed that we’re on target to heat the world up by two degrees – do they really understand the inhumanity in this?
Three meetings ain’t much…
The news that the process of delivering the indy prospectus has involved only three high-level meetings should raise real concern about the rigour of this process
Scotland’s land problems just get worse…
Recent stories about land ownership in Scotland give further cause for dismay. Will we ever get our awful relationship with our own land sorted?
The importance of confidence for indy
People discussing independence strategy dwell too much on demographics and not enough on ‘psychographics’. That prevents us from finding effective solutions.
Ignorance will not bring peace
Scotland’s political commentators are having a surprisingly poor war – we sit at a crucial moment in history and proper, informed thinking will achieve more than unthinking belligerence
What’s the future of transport?
It’s easy to see what Scotland should do in transport policy and possible to guess what the long term looks like, but what lies between these?
Public boards should not be a career
The revelation that there are people in Scotland making an entire living out of sitting on multiple public boards shows there is something wrong with the system
I want to unlearn being Scottish
At the weekend I spent a little time with people not yet ground down with the Scottish expectation of failure – and I want more of it
In-between before and after
One world economic order died over a decade ago, but a new one has not been created. We live in a strange in-between time – it is not too late to choose our future.
Independence’s most enduring problem isn’t war
Of course the crisis in Ukraine is going to have significant impacts on the cause of independence but there is a more serious long-term problem that we must not lose sight of