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Tag Archives: EU Referendum

Book Review: Mindf*ck.

January 8, 2020

Christopher Wylie is this bratty young Canadian guy with the pink lid who had “blown the whistle” on the Vote …

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Can a second referendum ever be fair?

July 30, 2018

I always thought that a referendum would be the unfairest possible way of measuring popular support for the European Union. …

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Brexit and My Favourite New Statistic.

March 15, 2017

67%! This is now my favourite statistic. When I first encountered it – yesterday in the latest Scottish Social Attitudes …

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2016 in the words of Tychy et al.

December 28, 2016

Bowie might have been the alien and the androgene to everybody else but it looks like to me, although I’d …

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Making a Success of It.

December 11, 2016

International finance is no doubt presently wondering whether Theresa May, the stateswoman who will save UK capitalism by negotiating fiendish …

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The End of the Road for Nicola Sturgeon.

October 21, 2016

The thistle has been squashed – the Declaration of Arbroath has melted – Rabbie Burns sounds suddenly like Edward Lear …

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Brexit: We Should Only “Negotiate” With Elected Politicians.

October 7, 2016

“We do not negotiate taking back control,” the MP John Redwood sniffed yesterday in an article for Comment Central, “that …

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Grief for the Centre Ground.

September 28, 2016

During the 1990s, Tony Blair had cleared a designated space in the rubble of our politics and he had installed …

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Arts Review: Surreal Encounters.

July 23, 2016

I visited Surreal Encounters, the summertime show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, around a month ago. Afterwards …

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Democracy on Trial Postscript: Focus on Turkey.

July 16, 2016

And so, with officers being wrenched from the turrets of their tanks and most men in uniform with their hands …

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A Tale of Middle-Class Hysteria.

June 29, 2016

“Nigel Farage has told a session of the European Parliament that “the little people” had rejected “big politics” in order …

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Nicola Sturgeon: The Politics of Hate.

June 27, 2016

Following the Brexit vote, hatred has been unleashed across the nation. Demagoguery is currently at its most nimble, in seeking …

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How to tell if you are still really on the Left after the Brexit vote.

June 25, 2016

Yesterday was not so much the “dawn” of democracy as the lights flickering back on after a lengthy and thoroughly …

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Democracy on Trial: The Verdict.

June 24, 2016

Democracy on Trial: The Future of Democracy.

June 24, 2016

It is after midnight and the Orkney Islands have just declared for Remain. As we wait for the results of …

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