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Posted on February 17, 2023February 17, 2023

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…

By petewish
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  • Independence
  • Policy
Posted on January 11, 2023January 23, 2023

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…

By petewish
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  • Policy
Posted on May 11, 2022January 16, 2023

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…

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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • Policy
Posted on July 27, 2019January 16, 2023

THE TOTAL HUMILIATION OF RUTH DAVIDSON.

The Scottish Tories are in trouble. Lumbered with a Prime Minister they never wanted and with their influence amongst the UK party at a new…

By petewish
  • Policy
Posted on July 21, 2019January 16, 2023

SCOTLAND – THE DRUG DEATHS CAPITAL OF EUROPE. HOW OTHER NATIONS DEALT WITH THEIR DRUG EMERGENCIES.

The drugs death capital of Europe, with 1% of the population heroin addicts. Half the prison population on drug-related charges. Sound familiar? This isn’t Scotland…

By petewish
  • Brexit
  • Policy
Posted on January 2, 2019January 16, 2023

SETTLED STATUS – WHAT THE TORIES ARE REALLY DOING TO EU NATIONALS

Over Christmas, when very few people were paying attention, the Home Office put out a video and further information on its EU Settlement Scheme. Full…

By petewish
  • Brexit
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  • Westminster
Posted on April 9, 2018January 16, 2023

SCOTTISH FISHING HAS ALWAYS BEEN ‘EXPENDABLE’ FOR THE TORIES

This has not been a good couple of weeks for the Scottish Tories. Totally embarrassed and overexposed on fishing, as well as being isolated in…

By petewish

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