I don’t imagine that many of the Yes voters are currently feeling very lucky. They lost after all. Judging by the evidence of social media, there seems to be a mood within the committed Yessers of a siege mentality, of convincing themselves that they won after all, at least in a moral sense. (“We are […]
As I write, the world has become fully aware that there might have been a third question in tomorrow’s referendum, the so-called Devo Max one, and that the responsibility for its omission lies with David Cameron. His calculation (based of course on advice) was that the No majority was so great that he could afford […]
The Aboriginal people of Australia have a concept which is usually translated as “The Dreaming”. This cannot be explained properly with only a few words – if indeed it can be translated at all – but given I need to try I’ll offer my understanding, which is that it is something which underpins all creation, […]
At the weekend I got an email from an old friend in Toronto asking about the referendum in Scotland. This is what he said: “To use an Americanism . . . what’s it going to be, boy? Yes or No? Time to sleep on it is running out. We are veterans of the referendum wars […]
By now, some hundreds of thousands across the globe have watched the video of Alex Salmond’s response to the BBC’s Nick Robinson at the international press conference of 11th September and many have followed the stushie resulting from the editing choices made when the footage was shown on the BBC News later that same day. […]