On Saturday January 14th former Sunday Herald editor Richard Walker gave a speech to an audience of Yes activists at the Scottish Independence Convention. The speech focused on the media and its relationship with the Yes movement. This article is…
It is important to note that nothing has changed. It was ever thus. The UK Supreme Court’s decision alters nothing. It merely confirms, very emphatically and very publicly, the only status that Scotland can possibly have in a political union…
Jamie Maxwell may be an “Edinburgh-based writer”, but he obviously views Scottish politics through the jaundiced and profoundly prejudiced lens of the London-based media. Few in Scotland would recognise the caricature of Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP that he presents.…
I didn’t attend the Scottish Independence Convention last Saturday [Jan 14th]. Sitting for hours in a hotel conference room listening to speeches really isn’t my bag. I did though manage to catch most of Richard Walker’s speech courtesy of Independence…
I was present when Richard Walker made his plea on behalf of supposedly beleaguered journalists. The question I posed at the time, although I was not permitted to put it to him directly, was this; why should we have to…
Any illusion that Theresa May’s Brexit strategy is not delusional and dangerous was utterly shattered by her speech last Tuesday. When she has to resort to blackmail, threatening to turn the UK into a corporate tax haven sweat shop if…
While I’m delighted to find Robin McAlpine acknowledging that the core message of the Yes movement in the first referendum was, and remains, “the most coherent we have”, I am somewhat concerned about the intense concentration (I’m trying to avoid…
At the Scottish Independence Convention on Saturday, former Sunday Herald editor Richard Walker argued that the Yes movement “need to adopt a new approach to journalists, particularly those we disagree with.” Later in his speech he added: “But if we…
Without question, Cat Boyd gave one of the best speeches at the Scottish Independence Convention (SIC) event last Saturday. But, invigorating as much of what she said was at a superficial level, I was very conscious as I listened to…
Nicola Sturgeon gets to the heart of the matter when she says that the question facing Scotland is not just about what kind of country we want Scotland to be but, more fundamentally, it’s about who decides what kind of…