Scotland frequently struggles to remind itself of certain basic facts about its politics. Such is the lot of a half-country: with its lack of a coherent public sphere and its truncated democratic life.Today, the all too readily forgotten truth about Scotland in 2017, now defining the current shape of political events, is democratic fatigue.Since the SNP won its shock … [Read more...] about How Yes can remain relevant in the face of political exhaustion
Coming of age: 2017 as year of resistance
If humanity is to have a recognizable future, it cannot be by prolonging the past or the present. If we try to build a third millennium on that basis, we shall fail. And the price of failure, that is to say, the alternative to a changed society, is darkness. (Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1994)It’s possible that we never grow up in the world we imagined. Certainly, I … [Read more...] about Coming of age: 2017 as year of resistance