Professor John Robertson, Oliver Brown Award 2022, (Just after Sean Connery in 2012!)
From my January 2025 column in Scots Independent, 99 years old this year (The paper not me!), non-party-aligned, on old-fashioned paper, to your door.
The Story So Far
November 1926 saw the launch, under the auspices of the Scots National League, of a new monthly Nationalist newspaper entitled The Scots Independent. Father and son, William and Ian Gillies, along with Tom H Gibson as Business Manager, set in motion what has proved to be, the longest surviving political newspaper in Scotland in the Twentieth Century — into a new Century the newspaper continues the long haul to convince our fellow Scots of the need for and merits of the cause for Scottish Independence.
The Scots Independent was to the fore in calling for the formation of “a Scottish National Party” and the Scots National League was among the bodies which came together to form the National Party of Scotland in 1928. The new Party flourished on the foundation of branches which had been built up by the Scots National League and used the Scots Independent to gain new members. Thus Scotland had in 1928, for the first time ever, both a newspaper which championed the Independence Cause and a Political Party prepared to seek an electoral mandate for Scottish Freedom.
The National Party of Scotland was to merge with the Scottish Party in 1934 to form the present day Scottish National Party which today is the Scottish Government.
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Shhhhhhhh,
don’t talk about it
😉
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As things become increasingly tougher in the UK (broad shoulders and that), remember how Hitler came to power in Germany.
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There will be boundary changes for the Scottish Parliamentary Election in 2026 and I have a strong doubt about the SNP winning as many Constituency Seats as they have done in the past. However, should SNP voters give their second vote to the SNP, and not the Scottish Greens or ALBA there could be a repeat of the 2011 result which resulted in a referendum.
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These boundary changes contributed a lot to the SNP losses in 2024, and this will put more changes into the frame. Not enough people realise this is happening. I was campaigning last year and lots of people did not know our boundary had been enlarged to bring in more Lib Dems.
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Why are you so sure of that when SNP list seats can often require up to TEN times as many votes as the Lab/Con/LibDems?
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Got a good source on that?
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‘There will be boundary changes for the Scottish Parliamentary Election in 2026’
Really?
Must investigate that
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https://consult.boundaries.scot/reviews/2nd_review_scottish_parliament_boundaries/
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