IT can be hard – with the debris of Covid all around us – to contemplate the incoming tsunami of the climate crisis. Yet for all the bleakness of 2020, there is always cause for hope.
THERE won’t be an independence referendum in 2021. While a few politicians have raised the prospect of a snap vote after next May’s elections, the reality and the evidence presents a different picture.
WE can’t leave changing Scotland to the politicians. It’s up to all of us. That’s why we created Skotia media for a better Scotland. We want to use campaigning journalism to help win independence.
FORMER British ambassador turned independence campaigner Craig Murray will face contempt of court charges on October 22 and 23, judges have concluded.
INDEPENDENT Scottish membership of the European Union would be supported in Poland due to the two countries’ close, historic connections, according to senior MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski.
ONE of our greatest tragedies is that we cannot know the information that is denied to us. We call the antidote to this "epiphanies" – moments of clarity and realisation of deep truths. My media epiphany was reading Power and Responsibility, a textbook by Professor James Curran. It’s a powerful story I’ve since retold whenever the opportunity arises. Since this is my last column in The National, at least for a while, I feel incumbent to share it with you now.
THERE’S nothing better at creating a sense of urgency than remembering that in a relatively short period of time I’ll be dead. Relatively speaking, of course. Even if I’m fortunate enough to live until I’m 80, I’m almost a third of the way through my life.
FOR 70 years, the entirety of his working life, Bill has tuned pianos across Scotland, and the hundreds of miles of land and sea that make up Argyll. Across those decades, on late-night ferries and across long, bumpy roads, he has brought the sound of music to household instruments on islands and the mainland.
IT started with one voice. An ex-pupil of St Luke’s High School in Barrhead explained to me how their old school had shared anti-abortion campaign material on its official social media page. And it wasn’t a one-off problem.
ARBITRARY authority has always annoyed me. Take bouncers at nightclubs. I’ve lost count of how many times good people have been victims of power-hungry security through no fault of their own. Give someone a badge, the implied right to manhandle someone, and the abuses flow.
