Month: July 2020

I HAVE a difficult history with unity. As a political strategist, I have no difficulty in seeing its benefits; as a human being who hopes for a better future I ...

Photograph © Pascal Moreau, City walls of Aigues-Mortes, Languedoc By Russell Bruce Message to my French friends Pascal et Al line and anyone else listening to Scotland’s pleas. Le Mur ...

Experts have called for “radical change” and an overhaul of Scotland’s laws to tackle thousands of vacant and derelict sites – an issue which has not improved significantly in decades.  ...

TO HEAR SOME TELL IT, Keir Starmer is having a good plague year. According to a poll conducted by Opinium for the Observer, the UK Labour leader has narrowly overtaken ...

REACTING to rioting in Handsworth and Brixton in 1981 as unemployment surged under Margaret Thatcher, her Secretary of State for unemployment Norman Tebbitt said: “I grew up in the 30s ...

We’ve turned the corner. A new opinion poll out this weekend confirms that support for independence is at 54%, meaning that the previous poll showing support at that level was ...

Support for independence within Scotland has never been stronger. Support for the so-called Union has never been weaker. Yes is now regularly in a majority in opinion polls, and the ...

IN MARCH OF 2018, I watched as thousands of demonstrators stood in defiance against an anticipated post-Brexit power grab by the UK Government, locking arms and surrounding the Scottish Parliament ...

There’s one thing that you can always rely on the Scottish Tories for, and that’s giving toadies a bad name. Somewhere deep in a rain forest in Costa Rica there’s ...

By Russell Bruce Dear People of England, We are worried about you. Your government is not giving you the true picture on the Covid-19 pandemic in your country. People in ...