Justice Secretary repairs one error with Police Scotland and stands to make a...
Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, whose decision to free Abdelbaset al-Megrahi For Argyll supported unequivocally – is looking at two major blunders of his own making. One has not yet gone the whole...
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Russell Bruce: A case of ‘unfriendly fire’ from the Scottish Institute...
Defence and Security in an Independent Scotland from The Scotland Institute is certainly a contribution to the debate, but the early released summary findings ahead of the launch suggested a lot of...
View Article‘Yes Shetland’ campaign launched as SNP cabinet hits town with deceptive...
Let no one imagine that the Northern Isles are aiming for anything but independence. For the Shetland and Orkney Isles, Devo Max is not an option. Scottish independence is an irrelevance in the view...
View ArticleFirst Minister reveals dangerous confusions over role of the media
Scotland’s First Minister has made an attack on BBC Scotland that, worryingly, reveals the extent of his own monomania.He has accused the BBC of failing to put across the independence case.It is not...
View ArticleSpeaker makes major contribution to development of parliamentary democracy
John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, has, in the past week, made a major contribution to the belated evolution of our parliamentary democracy.He did it from the antipodes, which he was...
View ArticleHerald loses public trust in publishing Yes Scotland article
The investigation into the clearly widespread journalistic practice of hacking into electronic information and communications systems, netted a revelatory creature from the deep this week.It became...
View ArticlePolitical excursions of the week
In the past week both the pro and anti independence campaigns have taken to desperate measures.Better Together has tried to make Scotland anticipate being the national equivalent of a stateless...
View ArticleNew survey on England attitudes to Scotland independence
A new survey from British Social Attitudes is showing some surprises. Almost as many in England want to see Scotland fully re-absorbed into the United Kingdom as want it to go independent.The well...
View ArticleNATIONHOOD: The For Argyll Referendum Project
Think about Scotland in 2050. What sort of a country do you want it to be by then? Prepare to share that vision.We’re not interested in the ‘now’ or in the vested interests and mantras of either Better...
View ArticlePolitically revelatory article in Sunday Herald
Sunday’s edition of The Herald, 22nd September, carried a piece by Iain Macwhirter which, given Macwhirter’s insider position as an SNP supporter, is revelatory.The journalist finds himself in a...
View ArticleAndrew Argyle: Why not the Inner Hebrides – AND Argyll?
Were we to set aside preconceptions arising from the current power structure in Scotland/Argyll and examine the historical and geographical factors affecting the distinctive parts which make up the...
View ArticleFirst Minister’s snappish response to Prime Minister betrays stress
First Minister Alex Salmond has sent perhaps a premature response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s refusal to enter the debate between Scottish residents on the future of Scotland.Mr Salmond had asked...
View ArticleProject Fear finds second home but the real fear is how we pay for the ever...
Following its now concluded annual conference, the SNP has voluntarily disqualified itself from issuing any allegations against the pro-Union campaign of the grounds of promoting ‘Project Fear’.The...
View ArticleAnother currency scare move as Scottish Government accepts future monetary...
Another day, another pawn moves on the board as SME foreign exchange specialist, Currencies Direct, enters the debate on the key issue of which currency an independent Scotland would use.One of the...
View ArticleInheritance, birth, blood, guilt and currency: the shaping of multiple...
Perhaps it is the issue of currency that obliquely brings into focus the implicit meaning, the as yet undefined nature of our currently joint ‘British’ identity.It’s not about flags, anthems,...
View ArticleAccounts Commission findings: Argyll and Bute Council at a crossroads
The Accounts Commission has now published its findings on the Controller of Audit’s Statutory Report on Argyll and Bute Council.The findings make serious reading for the council, for elected members...
View ArticleSalmond unfairly criticised for warm up act for White Paper
First Minister, Alex Salmond, yesterday introduced another preface to part of next week’s eagerly awaited White Paper on Independence.His Building Security and Opportunity: Economic Policy Choices in...
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Oil, the North Sea and Scottish independence: Europe and shale oil
This is the second in a series of researched articles on the oil and gas industry, the situation in the North Sea and the relation of this overall picture to a potentially independent Scotland.We are...
View ArticleIndy White Paper launch
Side by side white lecterns, soft pink underlighting, Alex and Nicola – everything was ‘immense’, and ‘astounding’ - lots of brio and plenty of busking on the back of a meandering tome [650 pages]...
View ArticleSalmond judgment under question in second deception on EU membership
The core issue arising from Alex Salmond’s deceptive presentation of a letter on Scottish membership of the EU at yesterday’s First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood is less about the act of deception...
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