
Without knowing our history we have no way of understanding the present malaise in which we find ourselves.
Without knowing our history we have no way of understanding the present malaise in which we find ourselves.
Nothing happens in a vacuum and all actions have consequences. But sometimes it takes decades to discover what these consequences are.
And for Scotland? The Brexit endgame is the reintroduction of direct rule from London.
“All has changed. Changed utterly” (WB Yeats)
I said in this column a few weeks back that I’d be putting £100 on the UK staying in the EU. I’m upping my stake.
Don’t get above your station. Know your place. Eat your cereal. But something more troubling than dour pragmatism is at play here.
If the British government can unilaterally and arbitrarily declare any spending to be ‘outside’ Barnett then the arrangement is meaningless.
The brexiteers were exposed as the spivs and charlatans they are.
People talk about “post-Brexit” as if we’ve already left,
It was their mandate that got rejected, not ours.