“At the centre of this web of crank economics, jumbled alliance-mongering, and meaningless exhortations to the ‘international community’, there is nothing. There is no working ‘independence in Europe’ prospectus.”
David Jamieson
“Already by the start of September, students are arriving at Scottish campuses for the most extraordinary academic year in living memory.”
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“In the world view of the British army, military invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, bombings in Libya and Syria, and deep co-operation with colonial settler states like Israel and Gulf dictatorships like Saudi Arabia are a-political. Politics is when you disagree, and disagreement is forbidden.”
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With mounting evidence that ‘lone wolf’ attacks are actually manifestations of organised far-right politics, is it time to refocus on fascism itself?
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“Problems like those posed by the GC do not go away on their own. They are either addressed directly and completely, or they go septic and rot, bleeding weakness across the whole body of the independence argument. The time to lance the rancid bubo has come.”
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“The defence of the Union may make strange bedfellow, but in this chaotic world many causes do. What the British state has proved masterful in time and again is uniting sections of the political right and left to the work of reaction.”
Are we witnessing the beginning of a Unionist counter-offensive?
“A Democrat administration would be more hostile to Brexit, and more willing to work with Brussels to squeeze the UK in Brexit negotiations. This could create and avenue for opposition forces in the UK, above all Starmer’s Labour and the SNP.”
What does Joe Biden’s nomination mean for Scotland?
| The US has said it will not execute two British Islamic State suspects should they be convicted. Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh are accused of being surviving members of an Islamic State cell nicknamed ‘The Beatles’ and accused of killing hostages. (BBC) |
| Research conducted for the campaigning group Hope Not Hate has found that two thirds of black and minority ethnic people in the UK believe the police are biased against them. A large majority also said they felt court systems were biased against them. (BBC) |
| New Scottish Government figures have confirmed the Scotland is again in recession. The country has experienced to consecutive quarters of negative growth, with the second quarter recording a massive -19.7 per cent growth amid lockdown conditions. (The National) |