COMMENT Max Wiszniewski: We must take back Scotland's environment
Such an imbalance in land and power and a sense of local powerlessness primarily benefits those who wish to maintain the status-quo
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How the licensing of estates can end the ‘national disgrace’ of grouse moors
TODAY marks the opening of the controversial grouse shooting season. But is it still the “glorious twelfth”?
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Why the SNP should back an end to grouse shooting on Scottish moors
IF grouse shooting had never existed, and the shooting industry wanted to start grouse moors in Scotland today, would the Government be in … or would it be out? Revive: the coalition for grouse moor reform has simulated this scenario in its new video Government’s Den in which two professional lobbyists ask Government ministers for 12-18% of Scotland’s land for the controversial bloodsport – Dragon’s Den style.
How smart research can help us win the next independence referendum
WE all agree that independence is the priority for Scotland. And we all want to see it as soon as possible. With the British elite in a barely-concealed (un)civil war it is frustrating that the pro-Union vote remains so strong. Where in 2014 a majority were not convinced there were fundamental flaws in the British state, now no-one contests the notion that the UK Government is a shambolic embarrassment.
