
Enough is Enough When We Say It Is
“Make no mistake: What Enough Is Enough is calling for is meaningful change through non-violent direct action. If that thought makes you uncomfortable you’re not alone, but it is your responsibility to reflect on your own personal reasons for your discomfort.”

The Pressure series – Part 4: Helping others see us
“What Scotland is seeking is the kind of meaningful local democracy which empowers it to be a responsible partner nation among all the other countries in the world, and we should say so with confidence.”

The Pressure series – Part 3: Forward, not in union but solidarity
“By putting energy into fighting in unison, this deeply unequal Union might yet die a peaceful death that enables each nation to rise from the ashes strengthened, able to shake off the soot of medieval power-hoarding and class conflict in favour of progressive, local democracy.”

Calls for unity will not convince the independence movement unless they are accompanied by integrity
“These calls for unity are easily tested for verity and unmask themselves in their refusal to engage in earnest with the substance of those issues causing the perceived disunity.”

The Pressure series – Part 2: Applying pressure in Scotland
“The means to bring about change and speed up progress here at home in Scotland are already available to each and everyone of us. It’s high time to remind ourselves what they are.”

The Pressure series – Part 1: What the independence movement can learn from the history of nonviolent activism
“This is not a game of who blinks first; it’s the reality of losing the moral high ground in any dispute in which you have to resort to shouting instead of well-reasoned arguments.”

The Blank White Paper
“When 75 percent of the nation would vote for independence with ‘the right economic case’, when is the Scottish Government finally going to publish one?”

Equality and women’s land rights in Scotland
“How can Scotland even begin to tackle gender inequality in what is an already deeply unequal area of Scottish politics without even collecting the data to measure success by?”
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