On Wednesday two front pages summed up the uncanny effect that the Scottish National Party, now gathering for its party conference in Aberdeen, has had […] Read More
On stepping off the airport bus it was clear that central Belgrade was in lock down. A vast chunk of the city centre was off-limits. […] Read More
Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell), the author of the acclaimed trilogy A Scots Quair – Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite – is […] Read More
In this podcast to accompany The Case for a Scottish Media (out September 2015) Christopher Silver explores the key issues that Scotland will have to […] Read More
I’m too young to remember the 1980s, though given the result of last week’s election that might not actually matter. What I want to talk […] Read More
Cameron has whipped British nationalists into a frenzy, Miliband has resorted to monument raising, the Independent is penning wartime-style editorials, Brown rallies the faithful, plurality […] Read More
…the question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from the question of what kind of people we want to be, what […] Read More
When I found myself, somewhat unexpectedly, in the midst of a referendum campaign for Scottish independence, the above phrase became a kind of mantra. I’d […] Read More
Scottishness and Britishness are not the constitution. They are cultural ideas and they have meaning, positive or negative, today, just as they would under a […] Read More
In modern Scotland, you’ll struggle to find a politician from any party who won’t concede two crucial points: that Scotland is a nation and that […] Read More