Devolution: can it serve more than Unionism alone?

On the matter of representation in Holyrood and Westminster, there is a very silly argument being exploited for extraneous and irrelevant purposes (other political agendas), leading to self-defeating division in the SNP, about Stephen Flynn’s desire to stand for election in both Westminster and Holyrood. Stephen Flynn is quite right to stand for both Parliaments, […] Source

The X-odus to BlueSky: a dug in a blue sky

Last week the Guardian newspaper announced that it would no longer be posting on Twitter. I refuse to call it X. You tweet on Twitter – what do you do on X? You excrete of course, and since the platform was taken over by the world’s biggest attention seeker Elon Musk,…

The far right could come to Scotland too

With the decisive victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections and his MAGA Republicans taking the Senate and edging towards a majority in the lower chamber, the House of Representatives, far right post-truth populist nationalism has scored its greatest achievement ever. The American Government is now in the hands…

The Far Right Broligarchy of Yarvin, Thiel and Musk

The philosophical underpinnings, if you can call them that, of the MAGA movements are a potent mixture of libertarianism (masking as of the left) and authoritarianism (not bothering to mask as from the far-right). These take in ideas from Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel and strategy from Steve Bannon, all of whom are a major […] Source

The Podcast Election

The podcast election? “This has been 100 % the podcast election” (Marina Hyde) Podcasts have become a hugely popular and influential part of the media ecosystem. Their rise is a manifestation  of a fracturing in our media, with many established media institutions losing their position. While some traditional media groups (such as the BBC and […] Source

Moving to Scotland from the USA

The National newspaper in Scotland has reported that since Donald Trump won the American presidential election there has been a surge in Google searches originating in the USA for “how to move to Scotland” and “Scottish citizenship”. I have been contacted by two American friends the day after the election asking…