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Today’s referendum light relief is this a musical celebration of Scottish independence at the Òran Mór (gaelic for ‘great melody of life’ or ‘big song’) organised by Bella Caledonia. This is for all who came on the night and those
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Continue readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6wok7g7do Some light relief from the tension which sums up the current state of play in the Scottish independence referendum.
Continue readingOn 18 September voters in Scotland will choose whether Scotland remains part of the United Kingdom or becomes an independent country. I am approaching this choice from the perspective of how best to democratise political and economic power and for
Continue readingOne of the most welcome recent developments in Scottish democratic reform has been the Commission on Strengthening Local Democracy. which was established in autumn 2013. Chaired by the visionary Councillor David O’Neill, it has bravely gone where no administration at
Continue readingAmong the recommendations of the LRRG are that more effort should be made to complete the Land Register and that patterns of rural landownership should be mapped and better understood. In response to publication of the report, the Scottish Government
Continue readingFollowing the publication of the Land Reform Review Group‘s final report in May, the Scottish Government has committed itself to the introduction of a Land Reform Bill in the current Parliament. The report (hard copies of which are now available
Continue readingOn 7 June 2014, the Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, addressed the Annual Conference of Community Land Scotland at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye. In the most significant speech on land reform since Donald Dewar’s
Continue readingGuest Blog by Brian Wilson (pdf version) Brian Wilson’s column is reproduced here with kind permission of the West Highland Free Press. In the great span of history, the most significant of the recommendations put forward by the Scottish Land Reform Review
Continue readingImage: The unassuming entrance to the HQ of the UK’s largest farm The largest farm in the UK is popularly understood to be that owned by the Co-operative Group which extends to 17,808 acres across the country and is currently
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