Category: Indyref

Last week the Labour Conference came and went with some carefully choreographed nationalist populism. It was made clear that, however the party may have felt, […] Read More

Over the coming days, with the upper echelons of Britain’s governing elite paying us a visit, a barrage of rhetoric about the benefits of union […] Read More

Even in the eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries, there were those who feared that British identity was too dependent on recurrent Protestant wars, commercial […] Read More

There are many stories about the referendum. Yet as journalists become ever more hooked on a daily diet of fanfares and milestones, too many quieter developments […] Read More

Contemporary Scotland is fragmented: but not along the lines of Yes and No. To find evidence of real fault lines, a short journey north from […] Read More

As I grew up Scotland became for me more and more an emotion rather than a country, and I would surrender myself to the emotion […] Read More

So, lest we shame them, let us believe that the new oppressions and foolish greeds are no more than mists that pass. They died for […] Read More

In Scotland this summer won’t be all that different from any other: it overflows with promises of package holidays, festivals and marital rites. Of course […] Read More

Localization, it seems, is not so much “other” to globalization as contained within it, brought into being by it, indeed part of globalization itself. J.K […] Read More