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Callum‘s Craic

Callum‘s Craic

We have to stay in the single market to protect our trade with the world, because our UK trade is…

It is remarkably simple, really. The choice Scotland faces is this: should we stay with the UK and see 100% of our trade negatively…

Mar 16, 2017

Mar 16, 2017

Callum‘s Craic

Being a cynic is to be trapped, so don’t be one

In today’s society we undeservedly value the cynic, when the cynic is really someone who is to be pitied. I say this as one who sometimes…

Mar 8, 2017

Mar 8, 2017

Callum‘s Craic

Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Scottish Labour conference is a dud

Yesterday, after pressure, Sadiq Khan changed his speech to remove the offensive assertion that everyone who supports independence is a…

Feb 26, 2017

Feb 26, 2017

Callum‘s Craic

In response to Sadiq Khan’s speech today at the Scottish Labour conference — we’re out

I am a part of the non-nationalist independence movement of Scotland, and I have solidarity with the UK left. However, I am beyond the…

Feb 25, 2017

Feb 25, 2017

Callum‘s Craic

The SNP is an impossible coalition that will break following independence

The SNP is a rather impossible coalition of centre right rural voters and centre-left Central Belt-voters, and objectively that coalition…

Dec 10, 2016

Dec 10, 2016

Callum‘s Craic

If journalism in Scotland isn’t doing its job, why should anyone respect journalism?

It has long been my view that journalism in Scotland is failing to do its job, and the last few days have been the perfect illustration of…

Dec 7, 2016

Dec 7, 2016

Callum‘s Craic

If #WeAreScotland then People Make Scotland

I was thinking about the national question today, as I wander the moors and heaths of this place. With a belly full of mam’s cooking, and a…

Oct 10, 2016

Oct 10, 2016

Callum‘s Craic

An independent Scotland means loss for someone

Looked at from one angle alone, there is only loss involved in an independent Scotland. Each side of the divide has attachments that will…

Aug 3, 2016

Aug 3, 2016

Callum‘s Craic

Dear Greens, I love you all, and I’m a loyal party member, but this flirting with pseudo-science…

My dear fellow Greens, you can not say on the one hand “Climate change is real and 99 per cent of scientists agree with that” and at the…

Jul 30, 2016

Jul 30, 2016

Callum‘s Craic

An will tak a cup o kyndnes yet fir ald lang syn…

Several things can be true at the same time, and sometimes a political choice will be made between two competing truths — and not between…

Jul 23, 2016

Jul 23, 2016

Callum‘s Craic

Callum‘s Craic

I’m Callum. This is where I post about things that happen around me. Politics, life, and so on. Don’t expect consistency.

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