This account is about trying to hold power to account in Scotland, help people understand what’s really going on and provide some kind of hope that it might actually change
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Neither Scotland nor the independence movement should buy the idea that Nato membership would make us safer. It would not - and there is an alternative.
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Part of the trick of militarism is to pretend there are simple answers, easy solutions - always involving weapons. It is simply not true. The world is more complicated than that.
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During a time of war the voices of violence prey on people's fears. We must remember that war is horror and that the war party s never satiated, always want more. We can make other choices.
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There are currently two political explanations of why the disastrous construction of ferries has gone so far off the rails - and neither of them is right. It's all about the specification....
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The combination of constant failures, right-wing economics, endemic corruption and constantly-creeping authoritarianism is making the SNP's legacy in government a toxic one. Only the party members can stop it.
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Common Weal has launched a new training programme, the first of many. The importance of developing skills for social campaigners should not be underestimated
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The smart money is on Alba's short run coming to an end, but the assumptions about what that means for the independence movement are perhaps a little simplistic
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It is now almost universally accepted that Scottish local democracy is in a terrible state but with a scepticism that there is anything we can do about it. That scepticism is misplaced.
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The razing of the Mackintosh Building at Glasgow School of Art is yet another case study in Scottish public bureaucracy. Its future should be taken out of the hands of the lot of them.
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Look, everyone orders a ferry, overrules the legal advice and then loses all the paperwork. These things happen. So let's be reasonable and play... Fiddle or Muddle
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The news that the process of delivering the indy prospectus has involved only three high-level meetings should raise real concern about the rigour of this process
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