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For A’ That Episode 6 – The Meedja
Episode 6 of For A’ That again features two guests along with Andrew and myself. This time we were joined by Peter Geoghegan, a freelance journalist, and by Philip Challinor who is Continue reading →
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EU 2 Brutus?
So Cameron may walk into and flounce out of more EU meetings, he may renegotiate to his heart’s content, he may grandstand and bluster, he may shout loudly and wave a small stick, but all he can get...
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Independence from UKIP?
By Jonathon Shafi Scottish viewers of Question Time, This Week and the local election results in England as they come in could be forgiven for thinking that they have walked Continue reading →
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Riddle Me This…
By Mike Small Michael Forsyth’s impact on the constitutional settlement – whatever that ends up being from the Stone of Destiny to the Euro Referendum – will be for historians Continue reading →
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Sent Homewards
Westminster’s darling get’s a warm welcome on Edinburgh’s High Street, a place with a long tradition of popular rule … Filed under: Antifascism, Autonomism Tagged: UKIP
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The 2% Gang
UKIP and George Galloway are the 2% gang – statistical anomalies in Scottish politics. Here Alan Smart reports on their collective nonsense. “I’ll tell you what would happen when an Continue reading →
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One Nationism Unleashed
By Mike Small Our Kingdom recently published an article by David Rickard on English politics and identity. It’s an extraordinary piece (‘We can’t resist privatisation until we restore the national’) We...
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The Snarling of the Euro Right
By Alyn Smith Nigel Farage took his snake oil circus to Manchester for the Tory conference a couple of weeks ago. UKIP, the Bruges Group, the Forest pro-smoking group and the ‘Freedom Association’ were...
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Transylvania Fails to Bite
By Mike Small Back in 2005 Michael Howard launched a truly horrible poster campaign asking ‘Are you thinking what we’re thinking?’ with a series of ‘homely truths’. You saw it all over the streets...
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Just Say Naw – To Galloway’s Sectarian British Unionism
Remember George the anti-Iraq war campaigner – then look at his allies now. By Richard Cameron. With the Scottish independence referendum less than nine months away, George Galloway is bringing his...
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Is the UK ‘the most successful political union in history’?
By Hamish Scott One of the signs of a changing constitutional politics in Scotland is a change of slogans and their claims. For many years, the description of the Union as a ‘partnership of equals’ was...
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Socialist Vegan Immigrant
It’s Greens Versus UKIP by Gary Dunion It’s pretty great being Nigel Farage. He’s already vastly wealthy from his career as an international banker, speculating on commodities that the lower orders dug...
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Christian Britain™ and the New Right
Has David Cameron been moved by the spirit of Lent or is he playing on the latent racism of a New Right? UKIPs posters are just a step on from the Tories own brand of xenophobia...
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Eurovision
By Jamie Maxwell There is a theory going around that, despite a few superficial differences, the SNP and UKIP actually have a lot in common; that Scottish nationalists and English eurosceptics share...
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Scotland’s Eurovision Entry: UKIP and the Culture War
On the joyous opposition to Farage...“Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.”
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UKIP’s Racist Friends
On the eve of the Euro elections, and in the aftermath of the botched Tesco Shettleston press conference (see Every Little Helps: UKIP Scotland blunder on as they’re evicted from Shettleston Tesco),...
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Euro Trash
By Mike Small Listening to David Coburn, Scotland’s new representative from the proto-fascist UKIP spluttering and flayling about under the most gentle of questioning on Good Morning Scotland this...
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F!
Amongst all the doom and gloom about the far-right, there are some inspiring examples from around Europe, like Sweden's new feminist party F!
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Illogical Positivism
Did Better Together really believe that in the referendum there was nothing to discuss? Did they really believe everything would continue as before, even if they won?
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Britain 2015… alarm bells should be ringing
by Kevin Williamson With many eyes glancing towards Scottish opinion polls for an indication of where we’re at with YES v NO, the opinion polls for Westminster 2015 make for sober reading. The ConDem...
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