Independence as a protection against NHS privatisation
Most people are hopefully aware that the Scottish NHS and the English are almost completely separate, sharing little more than
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England
Dividing England along the Severn-Wash line
In the past I’ve been writing about ways to split up England for the purpose of making federalism work in
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How Thatcher destroyed the coalition of nations
Did Margaret Thatcher create the current independence movement in Scotland? I was intrigued by a blog post on the pro-independence
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“Better together? Yes, certainly, but better independent and free together.”
IRVINE WELSH: IN PERSON, a photo by EIFF on Flickr. Bella Caledonia has today published an original article by Irvine
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Scotland should have 109 MPs, not 52
The Tories and the LibDems are reducing the number of seats in the House of Commons from 646 to 600.
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The two meanings of ‘British’
Map stencil of Britain Originally uploaded by adrian, acediscovery Nationalists and Unionists have been having a curious little spat for
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A different country
307/365 bunting Originally uploaded by dbtelford This week-end’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations in London (and, I presume, most of England) have
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