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Scotland’s demography crisis is worsening – A Scottish visa has never been more needed
Scotland has a demography and population crisis and it is only going to get worse. With our falling birth rate we are reaching the stage…
COMMENT: £1 on mega-gig tickets would support up and coming musicians
by Pete Wishart for The Courier, 16 January 2024 Scotland is a first-class destination for concerts, with few other nations of our size able to…
THINKING OF FEELING SORRY FOR ANAS SARWAR? DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME. . .
There are some days when you almost feel sorry for Anas Sarwar. Here he is, only trying to make Scottish Labour electable again, trying to…
WE NEED THIS TO BE A CONTEST OF IDEAS
What a strange leadership contest we seem to be having. After this week’s unedifying spectacle our candidates need to remember that the nation is watching…
WHY HAS SCOTLAND’S MODEST GENDER REFORMS BEEN MET WITH SUCH TOXICITY?
The one thing that bothers me about the GRR debate and fall out is this – why Scotland? When 18 countries comprising 350 million people…
DE FACTO REFERENDUM IS THE ONLY ROUTE TO SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE
LET me put this out there straight away. A de facto referendum is just about the worst possible way to settle the constitutional future of…
WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG FOR ALBA, AGAIN…
So it was not to be the much trumpeted and long anticipated breakthrough it was rather once again electoral ignominy. Absolutely certain that the long…
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…
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…