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.