Monday, 20 May 2013 21:39

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By Gerry Hassan, The Scotsman, May 18th 2013
 
Prague Spring. Two words which evoke a certain feeling, the hopes of a generation, European idealism and the past.
 
Today Europe could not be in a more different place and frame of mind, the brief optimism of 1968 and 1989 long gone.
 
All across the continent, European political, elite and civic conversations are underway about ‘whither Europe?’ and ‘what future for the eurozone?’

Monday, 20 May 2013 20:33

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By Mark McNaught
 
It is the night of the long knives for David Cameron, after 114 backbenchers revolted and voted in the Commons to express ‘regret’ that an in/out EU referendum bill was not included in the Queen’s Speech.

It is clear that Nigel Farage and UKIP have put the fear of God into the Tories, and Faragisme (pronounced with a French accent, because UKIP has a thing for foreigners) will be a dominant force in Westminster for years to come. 

Sunday, 19 May 2013 16:37

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By Max Crema - reproduced courtesy of ScotsPolitics.com
 
In the tightly controlled and pre-tested world of politics it’s not often that an event occurs which doesn’t fit into a narrative. A company will go bust and left-leaning papers will decry deregulation while their counterparts demand more. A speech will occur, a bill will be passed, a by-election will be won and you can easily predict the media packaging and allegiance for each event.
 
However, sometimes the narrative doesn’t fit.

Sunday, 19 May 2013 01:06

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  By G.A.Ponsonby
 
A band of hard line Scottish nationalists this week turned on UKIP leader Nigel Farage, forcing the mild mannered English gent to flee from Edinburgh in fear of his own safety.
 
This lie is being perpetrated by malevolent forces within the media here in Scotland.  It is a lie that has at its heart the aim of portraying Scots who oppose fundamental Unionism as nothing more than an anti-English Facist mob intent on silencing all who oppose them.