“The first priority of any leader is the safety and security of the people he/she serves, and that every decision, large or small, is informed by that principle.”
Duty of Care
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History Rewritten
“Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be” Billy Connolly
The Amazing Disappearing Border
“One day this will be over and the border will still be there. The possibilities for us beyond it, however, are infinite.”
Turning Point
“We need to be drafting post-Covid Scotland now, and making the case that the society we want to live in requires complete self-governance and nothing less.”
The Rising
“We, as Scotland, need to ask: what do we need to do? And is that achievable within the current political and constitutional framework?”
‘Untangling The Threads’: The Political Response to #Covid19
“The virus and the response to it was political long before I added my tuppence worth.”
Magnificent Triviality
“Yesterday was a day of extraordinary, wildly contrasting emotions”
Proof Positive
“The golf mind coach Bob Rotella always says that the one thing that unites us is that, regardless of whatever is going on around us, we can all choose how we think.”
The Bigger Picture
“ the movement towards self-government is much, much bigger than one man.”
The Value of Nothing
The UK Government erroneously presumes that what is high-paid is high-skill and what is low-paid is low-skill. Boris Johnson, a highly paid chancer with no discernible talent whatsoever, proves the opposite.
