Alex Salmond’s Alba Party
It’s over a week since I suggested that “…none of us can predict what the suddenly unpredictable Alex Salmond mightContinue Reading
Tag: Scotland
Report Finds That SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon “Misled” Scottish Parliamentary Committee
What a bizarre situation we’ve reached in the politics of Scotland when we have elements of the Greater England pressContinue Reading
Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon And SNP Polling: Not All Bad News
Despite all the travails of Brexit and Covid-19, just a few short weeks ago the political future of the ScottishContinue Reading
The SNP’s Civil War Between Alex Salmond And Nicola Sturgeon
Most independence movements have the good sense to achieve independence before starting the civil war. Not so the Scottish NationalContinue Reading
Scottish Judges Rule Prorogation Unlawful As The DUP Seeks Annexation By Bridge
If the United Kingdom is confused on how to proceed with leaving the European Union, imagine how the other twenty-sevenContinue Reading
The Proposed Wings Over Scotland Party
Like others I tend to distinguish between online political campaigning or activism and the offline pounding of pavements and theContinue Reading
Alex Salmond Talks To Stuart Campbell Of Wings Over Scotland
It’s extremely rare for blogs or online publications to have any great effect on offline politics which makes the influence Continue Reading
The Mysterious Institute For Statecraft, The Integrity Initiative, And British Black Ops
Two weeks ago the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland published details of an investigation into the activities of the InstituteContinue Reading
Arlene Foster And The DUP’s “Crimean Bridge” To Scotland
Following the military annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea by the Russian Federation in early 2014, supposedly in responseContinue Reading
Scottish Gaelic Is Not Dying, It Is Being Killed
There is a typically dire, fact-free article on the Scottish language (Scottish Gaelic) in today’s Herald newspaper, penned by theContinue Reading
Fake News? The Christmas Box PR Kit, Written By The Scottish Labour Party, Printed By The Scottish Press
All industries have their little trade secrets, methods of production they would prefer to keep under wraps, and the newsContinue Reading
The Caterthuns, Two Iron Age Hillforts In Scotland
Some of you may have already seen this wonderful drone footage by Kieran Baxter featuring the Caterthuns, a pair ofContinue Reading
Stuart Campbell, Wings Over Scotland And Divided Nationalism In Scotland
Readers of An Sionnach Fionn might be familiar with Wings Over Scotland (WOS), the influential Scottish politics blog founded inContinue Reading
Arlene Foster’s Letter Concerning Irish Gay Couples Marrying In Scotland
Talking of the Democratic Unionist Party, in the immediate aftermath of the general election in the United Kingdom, Marco Biagi,Continue Reading
Lib Dem Tim Farron Accuses The Scots Of Abuse While Abusing A Scot
Not only do the people of Greater England believe that all of the world’s historical empires were bad except for theirContinue Reading
The Gaelic Gestapo. Shaping The Language Of Hate In Scotland
To name a thing is to control a thing. Words have a power beyond the immediate and obvious. The processContinue Reading
A Reunited Ireland And The Rejectionist Politics Of Northern Unionism
A longer guest post by Mark Petticrew, a politics’ student at the University Of Ulster Jordanstown, examining the contrasting obstacles British unionismContinue Reading
Echoes Of The Irish Revolution In Brexit Britain And The Scottish Independence Debate
These thoughts strike me in relation to the current post-referendum turmoil in Britain, and Scotland in particular. Ireland’s failed Easter RisingContinue Reading
Following On From Brexit Is It Now Time For UnityRef?
There is more than a little irony for Scotland in the negative outcome of the United Kingdom’s plebiscite on its continued membership ofContinue Reading
The Scottish Government Backs BBC Alba In The Wake Of Tory Budget Cuts
Last November I featured news from Britain on the decision by the Conservative Party government in London to make savage cuts to the public fundingContinue Reading
Irish And Celtic Origins In The Late Bronze Age
At the end of last year I discussed the publication of a research paper analysing the ancient DNA remains of a number of individuals whoContinue Reading
An Elvish Alphabet Is Not A Gaelic Alphabet
From a report on the position of the Scottish Gaelic language in Nova Scotia, published by the Metro News CanadaContinue Reading
