Month: November 2022

The death of traditional Scottish unionism

Speymouth November 23, 2022

The UK Supreme Court has made its ruling. It’s a no, it’s a big fat no. That ruling came as no great surprise, a court established in London by a British Government and steeped in the English constitutional dogma of the absolute sovereignty of Westminster was never going to find sufficient…

BBC Scotland : BBC scaremongering

Speymouth November 21, 2022

When BBC Scotland gives huge prominence to a thinly sourced story about something that’s never going to happen, but which provides the anti-independence parties a platform from which to attack the Scottish Government, and moreover does so just days before the ruling is published in a court case which has the…

Labour’s same old waffle on Lords reform

Speymouth November 21, 2022

Keir Starmer has promised that if Labour wins the next UK General Election, the Labour government will abolish the House of Lords. More accurately, that should read, the Labour party has promised yet again to abolish the House of Lords. The abolition of the unelected upper chamber has been Labour policy…

Turkey is bombing Kobanê

Speymouth November 21, 2022

Last weekend a bomb exploded in central Istanbul. This weekend, like night follows day, Turkish planes began to rain bombs on Kurdish towns and villages in Syria and also in Iraq.  Turkey has called it ‘payback time’ for the Istanbul bomb, which they insist was instigated by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria and […] Source

The Parrot’s Progress: Scottish self-determination, inferiorisation and the limits of exceptionalism

Speymouth November 21, 2022

The Eclipse of Scottish Culture: Inferiorism and the Intellectuals, by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull, Polygon 1989. Review by Johnny Rodger Does the independence ‘debate’ consist simply in the endless repetition of the same old tropes? Sometimes it feels a wee bit stuck. One book, however – The Eclipse of Scottish Culture – written almost […] Source

On the public inquiry into the death of Sheku Bayoh

Speymouth November 20, 2022

Sheku Tehjan Bayoh. His name speaks to rhythm familiar to some, but here in Scotland, not most of us. It takes a little more work for some of us to attune our ears to these vowels and consonants, which are taught here and there. Here, and there, we learn not to question a language of […] Source