Seven issues in the independence debate outlined.
"Scottish and UK politics face huge challenges. The competing claims of Scottish and British nationalism do not have the qualities, diversity and ecologies to address the big questions. We have to face up to that and make the case for a terrain which is about a Scotland not defined by nationalism or the exhausted mainstream ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries, and instead addresses the huge challenges of the future.
This is a world yet to be fully understood, explained and named, but which will be post-nationalist, post-socialist and post-social democracy, informed by the implosion and hubris of the neoliberal era and its narrow, doctrinaire economic determinism. The values of this for those who are centre-left have to be more human, humane and humble, informed by understanding the damage humans can do to each other and the planet – green, feminist, anti-authoritarian – while creating new ideas and philosophies akin to the 21st century rather than the forces of 19th-century industrial capitalism.
The Scottish question has been one which in the past 50 years has been about how we see ourselves and how we see our place in the world. We have to consciously resist those who want to narrow and caricature our debate, and inspire a discussion about more than the mutual claims and counter-claims of two nationalisms."