What Sort of Country Do We Live In?
How do we live with ourselves when we read stories like that about Mark and Helen Mullins? People like these two poor souls are amongst the most vulnerable people we have in the country…
It’s Time To Raise The Standard Of The Independence Debate
This last week has focused my mind on an issue that has been bothering me for a while. We have seen much written about legal advice on the question of whether Scotland will…
Cyber-land
Last week I was banned from the “Vote NO to Scottish independence and protect the union” page on Facebook. This is the Facebook page belonging to britishunity.org a pro-union organisation. Why was I…
The Economical Truth
I don’t understand economics. I don’t find it easy to get to the truth of the economic arguments for and against an Independent Scotland. I have read so much about the economics of…
Lies, Damned Lies and Welfare Reform
The “No” campaign launched last week, and we listened to Alistair Darling talk of the things that we have shared as the United Kingdom. We heard him talk proudly of the NHS and…
IndependenCE?
And so it rumbles on and it gathers pace. We have the ‘No’ campaign being unveiled shortly - or whatever it decides to refer to itself as – and we hear today that the SNP are…
Breast has to be best in an Independent Scotland
Articles on the health of people in Scotland do not make happy reading. Heart disease, alcoholism and obesity – cancer and long-term health conditions like diabetes, are big problems. For these reasons it…
Inclusivity in Nationalism
We have the launch of the Yes campaign on Friday and yet we are still fighting the assertion that Scottish Nationalism is both racist and bigoted. A recent article by George Galloway in…
The State of Our Union
I am a mum and a wife. In point of fact, I’m an English Wife married to a Scottish husband with three English children from my first marriage and two Scottish children from…
