“These calls for unity are easily tested for verity and unmask themselves in their refusal to engage in earnest with the substance of those issues causing the perceived disunity.”
Ellen Höfer
“The means to bring about change and speed up progress here at home in Scotland are already available to each and everyone of us. It’s high time to remind ourselves what they are.”
The Pressure series: Applying pressure in Scotland
“This is not a game of who blinks first; it’s the reality of losing the moral high ground in any dispute in which you have to resort to shouting instead of well-reasoned arguments.”
The Pressure series: What the independence movement can learn from the history of nonviolent activism
“When 75 percent of the nation would vote for independence with ‘the right economic case’, when is the Scottish Government finally going to publish one?”
Ellen Höfer: The blank White Paper
“How can Scotland even begin to tackle gender inequality in what is an already deeply unequal area of Scottish politics without even collecting the data to measure success by?”
Ellen Höfer: Equality and women’s land rights in Scotland
“The electoral franchise is personal and in each of us touches on complex matters of identity. Maybe we need not be surprised that in a nation still struggling with its own identity, those who do not fit into the categories of Scottish or English remain the ‘others’”
Ellen Höfer: New Scots voters and the ‘other’ blindspot
“If Scotland holds an independence referendum within the next 12 months, it may just come in time to stand up for our EU new Scots in deed as well as word.”