Tag Archives: Scottish independence
Scottish and undecided
Tomorrow, I’m going to an anti-fascist demo. But more of that later. This morning, in response to the news about David Cameron’s decision to award the BSkyB decision-maker role to Jeremy Hunt (and Hunt then actively misleading Parliament) Ben Bradshaw, … Continue reading
Filed under Scottish Politics, Scottish Culture
A sense of history
Walking through Pilrig Park with an American friend on the 5th of November, with fireworks going off all around us, she wanted to know “Why tonight?” In the US, of course, they associate fireworks with 4th July, not late autumn. … Continue reading
Filed under Historic Scotland, Scottish Culture, Scottish Politics
Pedal on Parliament: Holyrood
On Saturday 28th April, hundreds of cyclists and supporters of cycling will converge on Parliament. We’re asking everyone who cycles in Scotland – or who would like to cycle, or would like their families to cycle, but who doesn’t feel … Continue reading
Filed under Public Transport, Scottish Politics, Sustainable Politics
Did the LibDems just vote me towards independence?
A record-breaking 172,475 people have signed Dr Kailash Chand’s e-petition to drop the NHS Reforms bill. David Cameron promised once upon a time that any e-petition that got more than 100,000 signatures would get a debate in the House of … Continue reading
Filed under Elections, Epetitions, Healthcare
I believe in the BBC
What if Scotland votes Yes in autumn 2014 – would we still pay the licence fee – and would we still have the BBC? In August 2009, at a time when News International were strenuously denying everything, James Murdoch addressed … Continue reading
Filed under Elections, Scottish Politics
Rupert Murdoch, Alex Salmond, and Rick Santorum
In the US, today is Super Tuesday – it’s the day ten states caucus to choose their state’s candidate for President: Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. For Republicans this year they get to … Continue reading
Filed under Elections, Human Rights, In The Media
Mobile Statue Hit Squad of Edinburgh
Not counting the weeks between 15th May and 23rd July 2006, all of the public statues in Edinburgh but two are of women. (Queen Victoria stands at the foot of Leith Walk, and an unnamed South African woman stands in … Continue reading
Filed under Historic Scotland, Women
Why devomax doesn’t work
Would I vote for independence? I don’t know. (Fortunately, I don’t have to make up my mind till autumn 2014.) Whichever way the vote goes then – for independence or for the status quo, devolution within the UK – the … Continue reading
Filed under Elections, Scottish Politics
David Cameron: We are now in the 1930s
As I noted in The Ideology of Workfare, the ultimate goal of the cheap-work conservatives in Westminster is to roll us back to 1834, the year of the workhouse. But as Cameron says: Today marks an historic step in the … Continue reading
Filed under Benefits, Charles Dickens, Economics, Poverty, Scottish Politics
