Chewing On Jackson Carlaw.
“I can’t help but wonder what part sharing this may have played in today’s events.” This is Andrew Tickell, the …
Tag Archives: Scottish Independence
How to Defeat the Scottish Nationalists (Warning: Contains Traces of Machiavellianism).
Could Nicola Sturgeon’s own carelessness have already sown the seeds of her eventual knockout defeat? Here is her in January …
Would An Independent Scotland Have Been Able To Afford The Furlough Scheme?
Supposing that Scotland had voted to become independent in 2014. Supposing that this nation had not fallen stillborn from the …
“And The Glitter Is Gone”: On How to Leave the EU with Emotional Intelligence.
The sun is setting over New York. We are on a roof, with the horizon at waist level, and with …
Where You Belong (a review of GE2019).
‘You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Westminster Hour Part 2.
[The following contains spoilers.] Two hours of the day are currently “Westminster Hours” at Sweet Novotel. The first play in …
Aren’t the different Project Fears actually all the same one?
Why aren’t the Scottish National Party more sanguine about Brexit? Isn’t it logically in their obvious interests for a “no …
The Reverend Stuart Campbell Sues for Defamation!
What bliss it was to be alive in Bath that morning. As the Reverend Stuart Campbell was preaching his sermon …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 23).
[SCENE: The outside seating at the 56 North gin bar. Tychy, James, Tori, Pablo and Hutu the Clown are sitting …
The Last Ever Can of Irn-Bru in the World.
I went to visit Angus shortly after the twelfth referendum. NO had once again won by the slenderest of margins. …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 22).
[SCENE: The BrewDog on the Cowgate, an apparently half-dismantled bar with bare brickwork on the walls and a stripped-away ceiling. …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 21).
[SCENE: The Caley Picture House. James, Tychy, Pablo, and Tori are drinking in one of those stylish wooden alcoves.] Tychy …
Catalan Nationalism versus City Statehood for Barcelona.
Catalan independence is still, despite everything, inconceivable. It is still all but a political impossibility. For a start, there is …
GE2017 or GE2017s?
The historical significance of GE2017 lies not only in its confirmation of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum but in its …
The Distress of the Scottish Parliament.
Progeria is a devastating but fortunately highly rare genetic disorder in which children age up to ten times faster than …
