“we’re fighting for a mandate for a vote that won’t solve anything instead of using the mandate we actually do have to solve both Brexit and save Scottish Democracy. “
Adore the Rising Sun
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Sound and Fury
“There’s folk getting in an awful stooshie over the whole BBC Question Time rammy. For the record, include me out.”
Farming Matters: England, Their England
“At least 80% of the turnover of the business I now run is generated in England, so it stands to reason that I spend a lot of time there. It’s a privilege, in fact, to do so. In fact, it’s from Yorkshire that I write this.”
An Open Letter: Dear British Unionists in Scotland,
“Isn’t it time you stood up for Scotland, as you promised.”
Farming Matters: Riding the Rapids
“What we should be worried about is the imposition of martial law, food and medicine shortages, the suspension of the Scottish Parliament by emergency post-Brexit measures and a tanking of the economy that by definition weakens our ability to be independent. “
Farming Matters: As Ithers See Us
“In a week during which Scotland celebrated the 260th birthday of Robert Burns, it lost another Ayrshire writing colossus in the shape of the peerless sportswriter Hugh McIlvanney.”
Farming Matters: Enter the Zone
“How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favours of the powerful” (Robert Burns)
Farming Matters: For A’ That
“Timing is irrelevant. Either independence is a good idea or it is not”
Farming Matters: A serious question. Why are we still here?
“Either independence is a good idea or it isn’t. The movement is a cause or it is nothing.”
Farming Matters:Reasons to be Cheerful
“At what point does our admirable commitment to compromise and collegiate consensus-seeking with people who have “tint their reason a’ thegither” become a lost cause?”
