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Image Description: a map of England and Wales, with their respective flags. Wales is separating from England. As a Welsh person currently stranded in England, I have grown a deep appreciation for my homeland and the way the Welsh government has approached the coronavirus pandemic. I miss mountains – how is England so relentlessly horizontal? […]
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Indyref2 is in the headlines again. This time, there seems to be a credible route to a second Scottish Independence referendum happening; Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the SNP, has pledged to start a new referendum campaign at the Scottish National Party conference. Now seems like a better time than any to introduce a debate […]
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On the 14th of October 2019, the Supreme Court of Spain sentenced 9 Catalan nationalist leaders to between 9 and 13 years of imprisonment for sedition and misuse of public funds, with 3 others sentenced for disobedience without prison time. This sentence, which had been anticipated since the October 2017 illegal referendum, has sparked violent […]
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How it feels to be a bad example of a good feminist. First and foremost, being a feminist means believing in gender equality; but being a good example of a feminist is so much more. To be a feminist role model means being a ‘strong, independent woman’; one who stands up for herself and for […]
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I was sat at a table having lunch with friends, friends from all over the world with myself as the token Scot, when they began asking me if I thought there was going to be another independence referendum in Scotland. Moments later, my trusted BBC app gave me the answer: it looks like it. I […]
Continue ReadingRead the other half of ‘The Conversation’ on Scottish independence here I am not a nationalist. I am neither a British nor a Scottish nationalist. I merely believe that independence is the best way to create a fairer, more socially conscious, more democratic society in Scotland. Thus, as a Yes voter, I don’t view myself […]
Continue ReadingThe Scottish independence debate is often distracted from being about the future of Scotland and the UK to being about a number of different issues. So first of all: what the debate should not be about. It is not about who loves Scotland the most. No one seeing the number of pictures of Scottish mountains […]
Continue ReadingIt’s New Year’s Eve, and, as the bells ring out at midnight, my dad says out of nowhere: “2014 – the year we get independence!” Now, we’re not the kind of family that talks politics casually, but this New Year (or Hogmanay, I should say), there was definitely a fair bit of jesting about what […]
Continue ReadingFiona Macgregor interviews Jamie Hepburn on Scottish Independence, and the SNP’s other aims and policies.
Continue ReadingDavid Sturrock talks to Lord Kerr about being a young Belfast boy among the old Oxbridge fogeys of the Supreme Court, looking backward to the Troubles and forward tot he possibility of the Supreme Court tackling Scottish Independence.
Continue ReadingJames McKean reckons the UK will stand or fall at the whim of the English.
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