Like many, I’ve struggled to come to terms with the result of Thursday’s vote. So, here are some thoughts as I and many others try and make sense of the situation: 1. No one knows how to react, because almost no one saw this coming. Almost all the polls predicted a Remain win. All the…
Tag: Scotland
The Green Case for Scottish Independence
For many outside of Scotland, including neighbouring countries such as Ireland, England and Norway, the motivations behind Scottish independence would seem to run counter to Green values. Green politics rejects nationalism outright and stresses cooperation between nations, but in the case of Britain, Greens argue that the nation is fundamentally broken and power too concentrated…
Scottish Young Greens
I was asked to write a short article on the Scottish Young Greens. Well…it’s an article at least! In many ways, Scotland is two countries rather than one. The great majority of Scotland’s 5 million inhabitants live in the Central Belt – the low-lying, mainly urban area bordered to the West by the Irish Sea…