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New thinking on the constitutional issue has been developing over the period since the 2014 referendum. But little of this new thinking has impinged on the mainstream discourse - which is still dominated by the SNP and its offshoots, such as Alba Party as well as the 'old guard' of the Yes movement.
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When Robin McAlpine gets it wrong, he gets it monumentally and comprehensively wrong.
Robin McAlpine is remarkable. Over a period of time, he can pen a series of articles and author a range of papers that rank as some of the most insightful analysis and intelligent commentary on the constitutional issue to be found. Then, as if as some sort of ‘anti-finale’, he can churn out something as comprehensively ill-thought as the ‘strategy’ reported in today’s Sunday National (Robin…
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When Robin McAlpine gets it wrong, he gets it monumentally and comprehensively wrong.
Robin McAlpine is remarkable. Over a period of time, he can pen a series of articles and author a range of papers that rank as some of the most insightful analysis and intelligent commentary on the constitutional issue to be found. Then, as if as some sort of ‘anti-finale’, he can churn out something as comprehensively ill-thought as the ‘strategy’ reported in today’s Sunday National (Robin…
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I was going to write an article today urging people to back the Stirling Directive. But Robin McAlpine has already written it. He may not yet be aware of the Stirling Directive. But in his latest opinion piece (Another summer of broken promises), he sets out forcefully the reasons the Stirling Directive is necessary. It will make for uncomfortable reading for the handful of SNP loyalists who…
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I was going to write an article today urging people to back the Stirling Directive. But Robin McAlpine has already written it. He may not yet be aware of the Stirling Directive. But in his latest opinion piece (Another summer of broken promises), he sets out forcefully the reasons the Stirling Directive is necessary. It will make for uncomfortable reading for the handful of SNP loyalists who…
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Independence! Because it's right!
Independence! Because it’s right!
Robin McAlpine’s obsession is policy. Mine is independence. He is intent on making a raft of policy choices and decisions. I am intent on restoring to the Scottish Parliament the power to make those choices and decisions. He envisages a referendum campaign in which the voters are told what independent Scotland will look like and how it will function. I hope for a referendum campaign in which…
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Independence! Because it's right!
Independence! Because it’s right!
Robin McAlpine’s obsession is policy. Mine is independence. He is intent on making a raft of policy choices and decisions. I am intent on restoring to the Scottish Parliament the power to make those choices and decisions. He envisages a referendum campaign in which the voters are told what independent Scotland will look like and how it will function. I hope for a referendum campaign in which…
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Still Yes! All Yes!
The latest great idea to pop out of Robin Mcalpine’s head is that the independence movement should abandon the term which has come to define it.
Robin Mcalpine is a very clever guy. If you follow Common Weal you will be familiar with the work of a think tank that actually earns that name The rigour of the organisation’s efforts on research and policy development has to be acknowledged as exemplary even by those who disagree with the conclusion. Much of the credit for Common Weal’s work goes to Robin Mcalpine as Director. Anyone who has…
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