Scotland men’s football team may have taken the admirable decision to boycott the World Cup Finals, as it continues to occupy a moral high ground it has made its own since 1998, but that is not to say that the country has nothing to play for this week. Far from it.
“how brilliant, moving and fitting is it that, this time, on this of all weekends, a descendant of the great Milroy will take the field wearing the colours that his ancestor wore with such pride and distinction?”
“What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? ” Tony Benn
“the most exciting part of independence, for me, is what the post-referendum shakedown looks like”
“Today has been a good day for Scottish democracy, and a reminder that Scotland needs the full fiscal powers that independence will afford us”
“In terms of Scotland’s journey, today feels like the end of gradually. The suddenly? Aye. Yessir. Bring it on.”
“We’re already living in the early days of the progressive, self-determining nation we always knew we’d love be day become.”
” with every page I shivered with love and warmth and nostalgia at every thinly veiled reference to the people and places that made me and, for all their paradoxes, informed my worldview.”
“We’ll have had our better together. We’ll have had our family of nations. We’ll have had our “lead us don’t leave us””
“If there’s one phrase that gars me greet, it’s “get on with the day job”. Promoting Scotland is the day job”
