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Imagining Scotland
There isn’t much of a difference between writing and map-making. You can tell a story by mapping a place and map a place by telling a story. Last year I launched a project via National Collective for...
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Can’t Be A Labour MP & Pro-Independence? My Great Great Grandfather Was Both
They say you can’t be a Labour politician and a supporter of Scottish independence, but my great great grandfather was both. I found a little blue book in a dusty cupboard last year. It’s very old,...
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Rebuilding the Scottish Imagination
Over the last few centuries Scotland has often been portrayed in media and in politics as an illiterate, poor, unintellectual, peripheral space that cannae talk properly. It’s the ‘subsidy junkie’...
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The Summer of Independence
In 1967 an unprecedented social phenomenon swept across America, Canada and Europe. The Summer of Love changed politics and culture in the West forever. It was the dawn of a type of youth power that...
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Horoscopes: Your Month in the Stars!
This month in the stars: There are just too many unanswered questions. Cosmic uncertainty means Scots need Westminster’s guidance more than ever. ARIES. Due to recent changes to the welfare system you...
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The Troublesome Youth
Young people are not apolitical, we just can’t relate to the current system. The ‘baby boomer’ generation after the Second World War and into the 1960s generated a mass movement of protest culture and...
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Nae Chance Nigel! Edinburgh’s Lament
Big Nige from UKIP came to Edinburgh last week to launch a campaign for a by-election happening in Aberdeen. Well, it’s close enough, isnt it? Maybe it’s something to do with UKIP having branches all...
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Project: Wish Tree
The first ever event after the launch of Yes Scotland last year was a campaign tent at the Meadows Festival in Edinburgh. This weekend we were back at the Meadows Festival handing out flyers and...
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Empowering the Scottish Imagination
Journalists and statisticians are keen to decipher who exactly supports Scottish independence by dividing people by gender, age group or class. We’re told men are more likely to vote Yes than women....
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National Collective go to the Solas Festival
This weekend National Collective ran our first campaign stall at the Solas Festival in Perth. For those of you who don’t know Solas, it’s a three-day summer solstice celebration of the arts,...
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Short Story: Another England
It was always going to happen. The English independence movement was, as one journalist from Aberdeen described it, ‘on the brink of revolution.’ An unpopular British Government, sitting hundreds of...
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A New Chapter for Egalitarian Scotland
It’s coming yet for a’ that, That Man to Man, the world o’er, Shall brothers be for a’ that.” - Robert Burns The story of egalitarian Scotland is one we like to tell again and again. We are a...
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London: The Most Nationalist Place in Britain
Dear Scotland, I am writing to you from London, which seems further and further away with each visit. Comparing the two capitals, London and Edinburgh, would be a strange and difficult task. But there...
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EIF’s Independence Censor Neglects Public Debate
I’m on the Royal Mile, speaking to Amnesty International about the censoring of political art under foreign regimes. I listen to the stories of places in which artistic expression is treated with...
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Public Event: Show Solidarity With Catalonia This Sunday
Dear independence supporters, Please don’t take this the wrong way, but get off the internet! We might have a great online presence but I can’t help noticing the lack of public gatherings in our...
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Yes Campaigning: Top 5 Tips
1. You’re at a stall. The most important thing you can do is talk to undecided people. Immediately asking people to come and sign the Yes Declaration, without first having a conversation, will put...
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The Troublesome Youth
Young people are not apolitical, we just can’t relate to the current system. The ‘baby boomer’ generation after the Second World War and into the 1960s generated a mass movement of protest culture and...
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Yes Campaigning: Top 5 Tips
1. You’re at a stall. The most important thing you can do is talk to undecided people. Immediately asking people to come and sign the Yes Declaration, without first having a conversation, will put...
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Letters from Catalonia: Part 1
If Scotland ignores the Catalan process we will miss out on a story from which we have so much to learn. Worse, we would be ignoring our friends in their time of need. I have come to Catalonia with...
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Letters from Catalonia: Part 2
Catalonia Day #2 Dear Scotland, I am writing to you from the gardens of the Sagrada Familia. It is arguably Antonio Gaudi’s greatest (yet unfinished) work. Increasingly I realise the extent of...
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