Independence

The UK Government should be planning for close links with an independent Scotland

Author / Creator: Derrick Wyatt

Media type: Blog

Date published: 2021

Geography and common values would dictate that any government of the new UK that emerged from Scottish secession would seek the closest possible economic and political links with an independent Scotland.


Scottish independence: what lessons from the break-up of Czechoslovakia?

Author / Creator: Jan Fidrmuc

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

The dissolution of Czechoslovakia ... caused limited disruption. This experience offers insights for Scotland as it considers independence from the rest of the UK.


Scotland, independence and Brexit

Author / Creator: Kirsty Hughes

Media type: Article

Date published: 2021

Brexit has shown the many weaknesses in the existing devolution settlement across the UK


Scottish independence, Brexit all over again?

Author / Creator: John Crabb

Media type: Article

Date published: 2021

Financial and regulatory implications could arise from Scotland leaving the United Kingdom


Can the UK afford Scottish independence?

Author / Creator: Ruth Strachan

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

What would be the cost to the rest of the UK of Scottish independence?


Age and Variations in the Attitude towards Scottish Independence – An Exploration of Cohort and Lifecycle

Author / Creator: Anna Schneider Anna Schneider is

Media type: Article

Date published: 2014

Polls and surveys have repeatedly shown that the lower the age of a person, the higher is the likelihood of them favouring independence 


STATE OF THE UNION

Author / Creator: Will Tanner

Media type: Report

Date published: 2021

The State of the Union ... reveals how rising support for independence is volatile.


Can Scotland enjoy a ‘velvet divorce’ from UK?

Author / Creator: Kieran Williams

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

"It seems that when it comes to disentangling nations with a shared government, breaking up can be hard to do."


Strategy and the Sociopaths

Author / Creator: George Gunn

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2022

"Scottish independence is not a romantic notion. It is a necessary social, cultural, economic and political reality."


A voluntary union with no exit?

Author / Creator: Kirsty Hughes

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

"The UK is a voluntary union but the Scottish parliament cannot call an independence referendum without Westminster’s approval."


The ‘Forward March’ of Scottish Nationalism and the End of Britain As We Know It

Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan

Media type: Article

Date published: 2011

"For many of us in Scotland our exploration of self-government, wider self-determination and statehood, ... is about developing more fully and appropriately a politics and nation fit for the modern age than the decaying, decrepit embers of the "Ukanian" state."


SORTED; A Handbook For A Better Scotland

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Book

Date published: 2022

It is time to stop describing problems. Sorted is about what’s possible. It’s a handbook for a better Scotland. A vision for a shared future in an independent Scotland.


A battle of sovereignties?

Author / Creator: Michael Keating

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

The question of sovereignty has never been resolved in Scotland. 


Supreme Court doubles down on the UK referendum position

Author / Creator: Richard Parry

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

The UK knows now knows that holds the legal cards, but politically it is the veto player with limited democratic grounding.


Unhelpful Clarifications

Author / Creator: Michael Keating

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

The Supreme Court judgment on the legality of a Scottish independence referendum is to remove democratic rights.


Broken Britain is not a Union of Equals

Author / Creator: Believe in Scotland

Media type: Video

Date published: 2022

A new video that compares broken Britain with a better future as an independent Scotland.


THE BIGGEST LIE

Author / Creator: Sara Salyers

Media type: Video

Date published: 2022

We have a king who is not a king .

A parliament thats not a parliament.

A bill thats not a bill.

A suspension of the constitution for 14 months including shutting the courts.

And while this is being done Westminster who are behind the plot suddenly find parliamentary sovereignty in a lucky bag.

WATCH THE VIDEO . YOU DECIDE.


Scotland After Britain: The Two Souls of Scottish Independence

Author / Creator: James Foley

Media type: Book

Date published: 2022

What is Scottish Independence for?


Understanding National Identity

Author / Creator: David McCrone

Media type: Book

Date published: 2015

How does national identity relate to politics and constitutional change?


Scotland’s Voices Show

Author / Creator: Scotland's Voices

Media type: Video

Date published: 2022 -

There's a power of work being done by the wider independence movement, including tireless campaigners on the ground and the new think tank - The Bottom Line.