Comment & Analysis

I’m not a great fan of nationalism, but it was great seeing our winning athletes on the Olympic podium. I was proud of their achievements. The only sour note came when the British national anthem [read more]

The following article is featured in the latest edition of Imagine. You can respond to the article here.

Since the nationalists came to power in Scotland last year, debate over the future of the union [read more]

The following article is featured in the latest edition of Imagine. You can respond to the article here.

The Daily Mail recently screamed the headline: “MPs want to ditch oath to the Queen”, [read more]

The discussion on Graham’s post about the national anthem has moved on to the more general issue of patriotism and its place in the republican movement. I think this topic is important enough to [read more]

I was asked to write a short piece for the Scotsman newspaper, commenting on calls for Olympian Chris Hoy to be given a Knighthood. Here’s what I wrote.

While trawling through recent coverage of Republic’s ‘Challenge the Oath’ campaign, I turned up Daniel Harran’s Telegraph blog.

Describing his own reasons for wanting to keep Britain’s antiquated and undemocratic constitution, Harran explains that he’s [read more]

Okay maybe not ‘at war’ as such, but what we have witnessed over the weekend is open hostility between a democratically elected Government and the monarch-in-waiting.