It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting
Scottish Independence / Scottish Politics
by Lawrie McKay · Published September 17, 2014 · Last modified April 15, 2016
So the day is almost upon us. It’s been a long campaign and while many people have made their firm decision, there are still a lot of people who may not have made up their minds. ...
Scottish Independence / Scottish Politics
by R J Hainey · Published September 16, 2014 · Last modified January 11, 2016
But we can still rise now. And be a nation again? If the opinion polls are to be believed, then around half of the population are not too convinced that we could rise and be...
Editor's Choice / Scottish Independence
by R J Hainey · Published August 19, 2014 · Last modified June 22, 2017
In November 1820, on the Southern Pacific Ocean, a giant Sperm Whale attacked the American whaling ship, the Essex; it is reported that the leviathan, after an initial failed attempt, swam 500 meters out from the...
In the previous instalment of this series, I looked at wealth inequality in the UK and how we ranked the 7th worst in terms of income inequality of all the EU member states. Given that the...
In the previous issues, I’ve looked at how the UK has mismanaged oil revenues in the past 30 years, created a volatile economy that broke during the financial crisis of 2007/8 and failed to make the appropriate changes...
So on our page somebody shared this resource along with a set of revelations of an SNP cover up. It turns out to be a leaked letter from John Swinney to the Scottish Government. It purports...
In the previous post we looked at what happened during the financial crash and how the UK has faired since the crash. Unfortunately, it seems that despite recovering to its pre-2008 peak, the economy is in a...
Each day we are bombarded with messages of fear. The utterances of the elite, parroted often verbatim and without investigation by a hamstrung and ineffectual media. It seeps into the consciousness of the Scottish people: an...
Welcome back to the second entry in this series of posts. In the previous entry I looked at the UKs approach to managing its natural resources. Unfortunately, unlike many other nations who have aimed to invest...
So the time is nearing for the people of Scotland to decide if they want to stay with England, Northern Ireland and Wales or to go it alone in the big bad world with no one...
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