On this anniversary of the referendum I’ve been thinking back to 2011 when the SNP won their first majority Scottish Government and the vote on our future became an inevitability. I remember feeling pretty disengaged and sceptical that the SNP could secure a Yes vote. Support was around 25-30% and most of the arguments one …
This time three years ago I was keeping busy catching up with a different friend every night over a pint, coming to terms with the loss of a dear friend. Mike, a beautiful radge I met when I was 15 had been killed in a car crash and the loss was devastating to the huge …
For the last nine days I’ve been campaigning out of an old Police Box on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk. With polling day now upon us, I’m reflecting on the experiences of the last week and a half. The ups and downs, the tears, the dancing in the rain with a huge grin on my face. Here’s …
When I got home from A Night for Scotland at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall just four days before the referendum, my ears were ringing and I could hardly feel my feet after a day of campaigning. Yet I felt utterly exhilarated.
I gave this speech at a Visions of Independence event on behalf of the Radical Independence Campaign The Radical independence campaign was set up in 2012 with a fairly large and disparate group of lefties – greens, socialists, swappies, trade unionists, and folk on the left of Scottish politics who felt there was no one …
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