Month: September 2014

Give me 5

Alex Salmond has resigned.  We are all shocked but we must not be surprised.  Alex Salmond is one of the shrewdest tacticians of this century.  He has earned his place in history and he will now take his place as a living Scottish political legend. In resigning he is doing two things.  First of all he has turned the tables…

Game of Thrones

In years to come I expect they will write a new chapter in Game of Thrones – the reinstatement of Scotland as an independent nation. Of course, what people are really interested in is the intrigue that preceded the event and we are living this in real-time, as I write. On the last full day before the historic Independence Referendum…