by aseifert | Sep 25, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Politics & Law
By Sir Ronald Sanders The winner of Scotland’s agonising referendum on 18 September was undoubtedly and impressively, democracy. The leaders and members of the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) set an example to nationalists in Northern Ireland and the rest of the...
by aseifert | Sep 16, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Scotland votes on independence from the UK on 18 September. In this guest blog Professor Jolyon Mitchell, Academic Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, discusses the culture and rhetoric of fear...
by aseifert | Sep 11, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Politics & Law
By Professor James Mitchell (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Anglo-Scottish union was the ‘most conservative of revolutionary measures. To put the matter shortly, it repealed every law or custom of England or of Scotland inconsistent with the political unity of...
