Month: May 2025

Iain MacWhirter gets it wrong again

Speymouth May 5, 2025

Former Herald columnist Iain MacWhirter has completed his journey from semi-detached sympathiser with Scottish independence – although he never fully abandoned his delusional hopes of a federal UK – to fully fledged cheerleader for the British establishment. MacWhirter always used to position himself as one of those “critical friends” that the…

Broken Britain: Flux, Collapse and Stasis

Speymouth May 5, 2025

A snapshot of the past week on Britain’s dramatically changing politics. Reform surge in England and talk about how young people need “moral re-education” about how great the Empire was and how to “love Britain.”    Labour collapses in the local elections in England and Keir Starmer’s response is to talk of doing the same […] Source

Starmer is fuelling the rise of the far right

Speymouth May 3, 2025

Britain is broken, and sadly things are going to get much worse. Indeed there is currently no clear route to a UK which is more just, more humane, and more equitable. Even the drubbing that the Labour party received at the local elections in England on 1 May do not seem…

Thoughts On The Route To Independence

Speymouth May 3, 2025

This is a space dedicated to debate about the reasons for and strategies towards independence. Here’s a contribution on behalf of the Lanarkshire Forum for Independence. Back in September 2023, the Lanarkshire Forum for Independence, a non-party grassroots group formed before the 2014 referendum to campaign solely for Scottish Independence and active ever since, prepared […] Source

A Roadmap to Independence

Speymouth May 1, 2025

This is a space dedicated to debate about the reasons for and strategies towards independence. Here’s a contribution on behalf of the Aberdeen Independence Movement, a Roadmap to Independence.  We in the Aberdeen Independence Movement have said it before, and we’ll say it again: calling for a Northern Ireland-style deal on holding a Scottish independence […] Source