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Posted on May 9, 2022January 23, 2023

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF WESTMINSTER

Once again Westminster is embroiled in another bout of ‘something has to be done-ism’ after the latest incidences of sexist and misogynistic behaviour. First we…

By petewish
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  • Policy
Posted on April 19, 2022January 23, 2023

VOTE TILL YOU BOAK

Voters, eh? What are they like? You can give them all the information in the world about how to vote but yet they will still…

By petewish
1 min to read
  • Newsletter
Posted on March 23, 2022January 23, 2023

SPRING 2022 NEWSLETTER

By petewish
7 min to read
  • Independence
  • Policy
Posted on May 27, 2021January 23, 2023

ALBA – WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG

So it wasn’t so much a ‘supermajority’ it was more electoral ignominy. Coming in at 1.7% the Alba Party didn’t rise like a phoenix but…

By petewish
6 min to read
  • Independence
Posted on February 13, 2021January 23, 2023

A PLEBISCITE CAN’T GET US TO INDEPENDENCE

With just a few weeks to go till the May Holyrood elections there are still some in the wider Yes movement hankering to turn that…

By petewish
6 min to read
  • Brexit
Posted on January 29, 2021January 23, 2023

BREXIT IS A DISASTER FOR OUR MUSICIANS

Of all the things musicians would rate amongst their ambitions when setting out at the start of their career success in Europe would be close…

By petewish
4 min to read
  • Brexit
  • Westminster
Posted on December 30, 2020January 23, 2023

THE ‘DEAL’ SPEECH THAT WAS NEVER HEARD

Thank you Mr Speaker And I rise to oppose this bill. This is the concluding episode of their tortuous Brexit drama, the final slice of…

By petewish
5 min to read
  • Policy
Posted on December 16, 2020January 23, 2023

NOW IS THE TIME FOR RADICAL ACTION ON DRUG DEATHS

YESTERDAY was a bad, ugly, dispiriting day that appalled and sickened all of us involved in the debate about drugs deaths in Scotland. Every one…

By petewish
8 min to read
  • Independence
  • Westminster
Posted on November 23, 2020January 23, 2023

WHAT HAPPENS IF BORIS SAYS NO?

So that’s another 2 opinion polls confirming that Yes remains the majority choice of the people of Scotland. 14 opinion polls in a row this…

By petewish
5 min to read
  • Brexit
  • Independence
  • Westminster
Posted on October 29, 2020January 23, 2023

THE 2019 ELECTION CHANGED EVERYTHING

It’s a year to the day since the 2019 General Election was called and it will go down as the election that changed everything around…

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