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Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 October 2025

Demarco’s Festival of Thought

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  We hoped the internet would open new horizons –  and it does – but it also the internet means ideas go down dark, narrow rabbit holes and ...
Friday, 29 November 2024

Scotland is not listened to

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Scotland is not listened to III ….and neither are ordinary voices across the UK  (We need voices of Reform )   I have been told by some – ‘a...
Sunday, 27 October 2024

Alex Salmond A Man for our Times

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  Alex Salmond 1954 - 2024 I met Alex Salmond once at the Edinburgh book festival and shook his hand out of respect. He seemed to thrive on ...
Monday, 30 September 2024

Remembering IndyRef 2014

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  Its now ten years since indyref 2014 – and that glorious summer – that wonderful exhilaration of hope of building a better Scotland! One w...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s

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    Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s   Scotland’s greatest political theorist of the modern times.  Tom Nai...

Scottish Nationalism for a Progressive modern state

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It’s a strange thing, I’ve been reading Tom Nairn ‘s excellent book the Break up of Britain (1977) and he makes many profound insights into ...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

Dependency Supporters

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Choice between Scotland’s independent sovereignty and the politics of DEPENDENCY   Language really matters. I agree with the Wee Ginger Dog ...
Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Worlds Oldest Parliaments for democracy

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1. Iceland - 930 2.  Spain – 1188 3.  Netherlands & Belgium – 1581 4.  England – 1688   **A democracy is a political system or a system ...