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Scottish Independence within the EU – with a Scandinavian Slant

Francis Fukuyama’s children

The historian Robert Saunders tweeted a great thread yesterday about the world view of the Tory Brexiteers. Here it is:

History seems to develop in sudden bursts (the punctuated equilibrium theory) – nothing happens for decades, and suddenly everything changes

I’ve been wondering for a while whether modern Scottish Labour Unionists are right when they invoke the struggle for home

When Better Together and other unionists are asked to present the positive case for the Union, they tend to struggle.

There’s an interesting article by Larry Elliott in The Guardian today. He neatly sums up why Margaret Thatcher was a

Did Margaret Thatcher create the current independence movement in Scotland? I was intrigued by a blog post on the pro-independence

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