HeyJaredRobin McAlpine
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Robin McAlpine: A National subscription is an investment in Scotland's future (opens the original)
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THERE are two different things I sometimes hear from the independence movement. One is that the "legacy media" is dead and we should stop worrying about it. The other is that independence is doomed because the whole weight of the legacy media is against us. And can I enquire what you’re doing about it either way? Because if you don’t think The National is making a difference then I promise you're wrong. The National covers stories others don’t. But it’s not just that they publish stories that ot
Poor SNP policy choices are holding back the cause for Scottish independence (opens the original)
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IN a couple of years from now a policy the Scottish Government is about to introduce will be assessed and will not only have failed but might very possibly have backfired. We know that already but it is going ahead nonetheless. The lesson I want to draw from this is partly about government policy but it is equally about independence strategy. We keep hitting the same problem and it keeps happening for the same reason. The policy concerned is the latest iteration of a “help-to-buy” scheme. This i
Robin McAlpine: Scotland will be independent but not through electoral tricks (opens the original)
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IN the last article I wrote for the Sunday National, I rejected a de facto referendum as a route to independence. A number of people have asked me why, but to answer that it will be helpful if we start right back at the beginning, with a very basic question: what is independence? The point of the question is not to have us flailing around to find a precise definition but to highlight the fact that there isn’t a precise definition. Independence is really just the ability to do things – control yo
Robin McAlpine: I've not enjoyed my Cassandra role – but here's the hard truth (opens the original)
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ONE day the independence movement needs to face an uncomfortable question – did we really believe the politicians when they told us that they had “a brilliant secret plan but we can’t tell you about it”, three times in a row – or are we simply believing what we want to be true even when we know it isn’t? It’s a pretty fundamental question right now, and it is only one question about the range of delusions we’ve demonstrated. Did you really believe we could hold a non-Section 30 Order referendum
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