“the other things the England squad embody – diversity, an enquiring mind, a social conscience, hinterland”
The Tide Comes In
England, Your England
“Firstly, well played on your stunning win yesterday and I’m pleased that we remain the only team in Euro 2020 to take a point at your own midden.”
Game On
“we face the prospect of being evicted from the Euros against our will, which in a darkly comic kind of way rather sums up the experience of being Scottish in the age of Brexit.”
First Principles
The 2021 Holyrood election is the forty-eighth national election in a row that the Conservatives have failed to win.
Beyond The Pale
The problem for Scotland – and indeed for liberal minded people across the UK – isn’t necessarily Johnson but a system so fundamentally broken that it actually allows someone so unsuitable to become Prime Minister.
Leaders Debate
“It isn’t independence or recovery. It’s independence “for” recovery.”
What it Means
“Am I fed up with the Duke of Edinburgh eulogies? Mostly yes. But partly no.”
This Is Who They Are
Like the vote in 2014, anything less than a resounding win a month from now will be seen as acquiescence.
Who Shall Speak For Scotland
“Six weeks from now, Scotland has the choice of two diametrically opposing futures.”
Getting over the line
Watching the shameful events from Glasgow’s George Square last weekend I experienced – like many people I suspect – a strong sense of deja vu.
