“A few folk I’ve spoken to today were genuinely surprised at the admittedly astonishing scale of Scotland’s food and drink sector that I outlined in my post this morning. “
Let Scotland Be Scotland
This Land is Your Land
“We’re all Scotland’s story and we’re all worth the same” (The Proclaimers)
Faster Horses
” Circumstances always change – it’s the only thing that stays the same – and either independence is a good idea or it is not. “
The Tide Comes In
“the other things the England squad embody – diversity, an enquiring mind, a social conscience, hinterland”
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.”
