On Scottish Seaweed

Back in 2013, seaweed wasn’t really a thing. I was driving up to Fife from Cornwall that September, white van full to the gun’ls with seaweed harvesting and monitoring equipment, towing my currach boat behind me. I’d had enough of Cornwall, too many sharp elbows, too white, too self-satisfied. I’d set up a community seaweed […] Source

I’d like to draw your attention to a few characteristics of fascism…

Watching the stupid unfold from the stage at the National Conservatism conference we compiled our Top Ten of the stupidest things said at the new event that marks the convergence point of the Tory party with neo-fascism  … Straight in an No. 1 is Yoram Hazony … What is national conservatism? Before anything else, it’s […] Source

Starmer’s transforming Labour into the Tories’ Mini-Me

In a speech to the Progressive Britain conference in central London last week Labour leader Keir Starmer insisted that he didn’t care if people think that his party’s priorities sound conservative. We’ve noticed that Keir, we’ve noticed. In an attack on the the Tory government of Sunak, he claimed it “can…

Post-Truth Politics

In 2016 at a Sioux Center in Iowa, Donald trump famously said “I have the most loyal people – did you ever see that? I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” No we know it’s true. On Tuesday a New York jury ruled […] Source

The New Nihilism

Perhaps understandably there’s not a lot of hope about. In the post-Coronation melancholy, witnessing the repression of the most basic of our political rights, in the shadow of the shambles of Nicola Sturgeon’s departure, in the absence of any credible political alternative and having to bathe in the waters of a reactionary media pool, there […] Source

The SNP are still a force to be reckoned with

Reports of the demise of the SNP are most definitely premature. An opinion poll by YouGov published this week shows that the SNP still enjoys a commanding lead over Labour in voting intentions for the next Westminster General Election. The poll showed that the Tories are losing support to Labour with…

How to stop Voter ID rules undermining Scotland’s democracy

  Local elections in England last week were marred by voters getting turned away from the polls – or deciding to stay at home because of the new voter ID requirements. This has suppressed voter turnout – as Believe in Scotland predicted. There is no total figure for voter turnout…