All posts by Christopher Silver

Making Things: Culture, Industry And Independence

For these new ideas we need people who work with their hands. Who else wants to learn about the origin

Scotland is bristling with a will to experiment. It’s shrugging off an older, staler incarnation of itself and tentatively

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We don’t need to tell everyone we’re Scottish, we know that. What we have to talk about now is the

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A country will wake up. It will scrabble together readiness for the day ahead and traipse down stairs. It will

The biggest challenge that the Yes Campaign faces, in every sector, is that of not casting Scotland, or Scottish culture,

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Sometimes it is easy to forget just how remarkable the recent journey to a vote on independence in 2014 has

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

One of the most telling phrases in modern politics, “It’s the economy, stupid”, was coined by a strategist within Bill

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We’ve never ever, ever had this kind of response. Is this a kind of anti-English thing? It could be.” Nigel

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On issues such as the costs for establishing a diplomatic network, EU Membership, a currency union and on pensions the