Author: Jackie Kemp
EU referendum: the emotional case for In
Scotland’s First Minister wants to run her own campaign to persuade voters to remain in the EU, warning against a Project Fear 2. Here a pro-EU Scot sets out five lessons learned from the Indyref campaign of (and before) 2014.
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Tartan Teflon no more?
The SNP looks set to be swept back to government in May with another absolute majority. But its performance at Holyrood is coming under growing critical examination. Even so, nothing dents its supremacy among voters. Why? And is the tide likely to turn?
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1707 and a’ that
The recent History Festival re-examined what really happened in – and before and after – the Treaty of Union was signed. Historians disagreed, as ever, over the events and their import and, no doubt, will still be doing so in another 300 years.
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1707: what really happened?
There were plots and counter-plots but on the day in 1707 that the Scottish Parliament dissolved no riots or celebrations. A panel at the History Festival in Edinburgh discusses what really happened in that momentous period.
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Remembrance: poppycock on poppies
On Armistice Day and 70 years after the ending of WW2, there’s plenty of loose talk about “poppy fascism” from those with no experience of the real thing – as the author remembers the suffering and sacrifices endured by her grandfather in five years as a PoW.
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