I want an independent Scotland. I want nuclear weapons off Scottish soil and out of Scottish waters. I want an independent Scotland to co-operate constructively…
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Devo-Max?
What do we do about devo-max? This peculiar, but simple, constitutional option seems to be causing a great deal of consternation amongst all sides in…
Burma and the Hope For Democracy
What do you say to the World’s most iconic female politician when you go calling at her home on the other side of the world?…
Why Unionist Attempts to Politicise the Olympics Failed
Whilst everybody was enjoying the spectacle of the greatest Games on Earth there was one group of people who are doing their level best to…
A Long Road For Farepak Customers
You may recall in previous Quair articles, I raised the issue of constituents who had lost money following the collapse of Farepak, the Christmas savings…
Politics and That Opening Ceremony
So that’s the Olympics up and running and the biggest show on earth is underway. Already it seems like the whole nation is gripped on…
Ye See Yon Birky Ca’d a Lord
It may not be the issue that is most exercising the good people of Perthshire, but Lords Reform is the issue that has dominated the…
The Power to Shape Our Own Future
Several decades ago Johnny Nash reminded us of an unalterable truth when he sang, “there are more questions than answers”. Now, he clearly wasn’t thinking…
Breadalbane Quair article – July 2012
I mentioned in last month’s Quair article about the threat to the Black Watch name. I was so concerned about this and I had received…
Blairgowrie Advertiser – 21st June 2012
The debate about Scottish independence took a rather bizarre turn last week when Labour leader, Ed Miliband, tried to suggest what my identity would be…