Robin McAlpine (+RobinMcAlpine)

19 August 2022 16:45

With utter predictability, a crisis in capitalism comes along, people start looking to solutions from the left, so the establishment starts propagating conspiracy theories...

Left-smearing is back in fashion

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When I tried to set out a range of actions we could take in Scotland to tackle the cost of living crisis it ended up feeling like fiction. Why?

It’s a truly rotten thing if you can’t fix it

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The grassroots of the independence movement have every right in the world to be angry and frustrated, but those emotions must be used wisely if we are to win.

The indy movement simply has to be better than this

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Keir Starmer is not the solution to Britain's relentless decline, he is a personification of why Britain is in decline in the first place.

Keir Starmer; failing Britain in human form

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Everyone's angry about the state of things, but if anger doesn't become something else, nothing changes and the people you are angry with get away with it.

We must turn fury and despair into hope and determination

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The population is becoming more anti-establishment by the day. The independence movement must catch up with them or be left behind.

Elite misrules opens the door to independence, but…

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The 'cost of living' crisis is really a crisis of elite greed and global mismanagement. We must engage with this crisis head on, but first we must understand it.

Understand this crisis or it will eat us all

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Common Weal is working on a project to create a vision for what an independent Scotland could be. We want you to tell us what should be in it.

In search of hope and courage

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World leaders are acting like reckless school children and we should all be terrified

There are no adults in the room

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At first glance a 'code of conduct' saying 'be nice' sounds harmless enough. But they never work, and you usually come to regret them

Would I sign an indy ‘code of conduct’?

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I know how the path set out to independence could be made to work, but I am at a loss in trying to understand how the SNP leadership thinks it could be made to work.

I’m bewildered – how is this meant to work?

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The Scottish Government's paper on the democratic case for independence is decidedly low quality - and badly undermined by the performance of the Scottish Government

Democracy; reasons for Scotland to be sceptical

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Since an intention to hold a 'plebiscite election' was announced, there has been a lot of confusion about what that means. What is it and how is it different from a normal election?

What is a plebiscite election?

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Another major sexual abuse scandal in the SNP shows exactly why the cause of independence must be disentangled from any one political party if there is really to be a plebiscite election

Scandal-hit SNP must set independence free

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The latest version of Scottish climate denial is to argue that we aren't big enough to matter anyway. But our role can be measured in more than kilotons - Scotland really can make a difference

Scotland is not irrelevant to climate change

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Attending a music festival turned out to be a transformative experience for my colleague. Can we learn why and use the knowledge to change the world?

A recipe for everyday euphoria

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The more you look at the new 'indyref plan' the more it becomes clear that it is a fixer-upper. That is very worrying, because the time to fix it up is very limited.

Time is already running out…

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Whatever our reservations, we're left with no option but to make the 'plebiscite election' plan work. Here's how we could do that.

How to make this work

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That's me away for two weeks - see you when I get back

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If there was to be a referendum next year, how could the independence movement make it work? It is much harder than you might think - but it can be done.