Posted on June 22, 2016. Tags: Angela Merkel, Brexit, Brussels, David Cameron, EU Referendum, Germany, Leave, Oil, Remain, Scotland, Scotland's Referendum, Scottish independence
CC Image courtesy of Rareclass This piece was also published in Huffington Post on 23rd June 2016 Something we in Scotland learned the hard way in 2014 is that referendum questions are dangerous because they make both choices on the ballot paper seem equally plausible. By giving the people a choice we somehow assume that […]
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Posted on June 11, 2016. Tags: Brexit, EU, EU Referendum, European Union, Leave, Remain
George Orwell famously wrote that “Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Having lived through the Scottish independence referendum, it is hard to believe that less than two years on from that experience the people of the UK are […]
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