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. […]
In an earlier post, I commented on the matter of what our financial institutions, including Standard Life, should and shouldn’t be doing in response to the possibility of a Yes victory. My key point was this: “Unless the likes of SL are to find themselves shrinking to be domestic players only, they have to take […]
I was away last week, so I’ve been busy over the last few days with catching up. I saw on-line that the Observer had run a piece by Will Hutton which was headlined “We have 10 days to find a settlement to keep us together”. Intriguing, I thought: at last the penny is dropping for […]
I wasn’t active on Twitter at the time, but I must admit that during the course of watching the opening ceremony for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games I became converted to the whole notion of commenting in public. Now I’ve got this blog and its related Twitter account, HaiversBlog. What moved me so was the performance […]