Superb Independence Live TNT Show last night with Leah Gunn Barrett and John Proctor discussing energy, democracy and much else. A must-watch! www.youtube.com/watc...

Does #culture matter? We think so, especially if that culture has been suppressed over 300 years. This week's podcast is another session from the #IFS conference, discussing positive signs that we are reclaiming our culture youtu.be/z8e_--WiOLE?...

What would you sacrifice for a wellbeing economy? Let's start with massive heating bills - and many more good ideas from the Independence Forum Scotland conference @williamduguid1.bsky.social @thecommonweal.bsky.social Watch the wellbeing and UBI session here: youtu.be/LYa6V6lBZA8?...

Another excellent video from @thescotlandchannel.bsky.social, with Tim Rideout of our member organisation The Scottish Currency Group explaining why, after independence, the pound sterling should be very much in Scotland's rear view mirror. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAwl...

Cracking couple of events coming up from Scotonomics and @yes.cymru, firstly in Glasgow on 11 July, then in Cardiff on 18 July. Why monetary sovereignty is more than having your own currency - plus an exploration of Modern Monetary Theory. Glasgow info and tickets: scotonomics.scot/event/the-ec...

'The weather outside may have been dreich, but the mood indoors was extremely positive as over 100 delegates filed into the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Saturday 14 June for the second gathering of Independence Forum Scotland’s Convention on Scotland’s Future.' independenceforum.sc...

75% of Finland is a forest owned by huge cooperatives & that's key to equality. Last century Finnish pulp powered the European newspaper industry & all benefited - not one laird. It's one story we hope to tell in a new film this September. Crowdfunder live now www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/finland---...

Edward Heath blocked US use of UK bases to defend Israel in 1973. Harold Wilson resisted US pressure to send troops to Vietnam. From the ’50s to early 2000s, the UK imposed full arms embargoes on Israel for breaking international law. We can choose not to be America’s poodle.

There were a couple of very good talks about basic income at the recent @indyforumscot.bsky.social event. One by Craig Dalzell @thecommongreen.scot and one by Annie Miller champion of Basic Income @basicincomeaction.bsky.social They’ll be out soon on @scottishindypod.bsky.social

Interesting speakers on poverty and energy at Summer Convention on Scotland’s Future, at the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Saturday 14 June 2025. Free but register independenceforum.scot/national-con...

There are still a few places left at our Summer Convention on Scotland's Future at the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Saturday 14 June, 10:00 to 16:00. Admission is free and it promises to be a cracking day. Read all about it in William Duguid's National article: archive.is/uA8vR

'Nuclear power is another issue crying out for Direct Democracy, where the Scottish People, not special interests who are in bed with the politicians, have the power to decide via a referendum whether they want it or not.' Leah Gunn Barrett, via 'Dear Scotland' dearscotland.substac...

Energy Scotland will be giving an update on its activities at our Summer Convention in Perth on Saturday 14 June. Here's Lesley Riddoch discussing district heating, locational pricing, high prices, grid connections, and pylons with Rhys Stanwix and Dave Pearson of ES. podcasts.apple.com/g...

Here's William Duguid, one of the organisers of our Summer Convention in Perth on Saturday 14 June, speaking to Marlene Halliday of the Indy Podcasters about the event. (There are still places available, by the way - use the links in the following post in the thread.) www.youtube.com/watc...

'The ‘patient finance’ model of the Scottish National Investment Bank should be one that thinks in terms of years, decades, even centuries, of stable investment rather than the hours, minutes and even microseconds of the financial world.' @thecommongreen.scot, via Common Weal www.commonweal.scot/...

'The idea that permission for Flamingoland was ever in doubt has kept citizens believing that Scotland was still a functioning democracy. It wasn't, and it isn't.' Robin McAlpine robinmcalpine.org/fe...

'Once Scotland is independent, the pros and cons of EU vs EFTA should be publicly debated and then decided by the sovereign Scottish People in a national referendum.' Leah Gunn Barrett, via Dear Scotland dearscotland.substac...

Just three weeks to our Summer Convention on Scotland's Future, at the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Saturday 14 June, 10am - 4pm. What it is to be a Scot, Energy, Land & Democracy updates, and Poverty & the Wellbeing Economy. Admission free. All welcome. Book at independenceforum.scot/national-con...

Latest video from @thescotlandchannel.bsky.social: a film on the Liberation Scotland bid to have Scotland recognised by the UN as a 'non self-governing territory', how things are progressing, and all that might stem from it. Well worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQJ...

You're invited to Independence Forum's Summer Convention on Scotland's Future on Saturday 14 June in Perth. We'll discuss what it is to be a Scot (born here or not), land reform, energy, direct democracy, poverty and the Wellbeing Economy. Free tickets here: independenceforum.sc...

'Privatisation of the UK industrial base has been a colossal failure. It didn’t, as promised, enhance competition, lower costs or deliver a better service, but led to the exact opposite.' Leah Gunn Barrett, via 'Dear Scotland' dearscotland.substac...

'Those who wish to hold fast to the crumbling totem of a British bomb are normally motivated not by real security threats or concerns but by a delusional iteration of British greatness.' Bill Ramsay of the SNP Trade Union Group, via The National archive.is/bzx8E

Welcome to our newest member organisation, Independence Live, who've been producing excellent content for many years now. Here's one of their longest-running shows, the TNT ('The Nation Talks') Show with John Drummond, which this week featured the multi-faceted Pat Kane. www.youtube.com/watc...

Refreshing to see a potential party leader in England recognising why Scotland may wish to be independent. With Reform on the rise, Mr Polanski said, "I think if you are on the right-wing of politics, you only ever need to tell a powerful story. It doesn’t need to be based in facts." A GE warning.

'Rather than bemoaning the inequity of the devolution settlement, the mood was positive and focused on what we in Scotland can and should do to build a positive future.' John Proctor of Energy Scotland, refecting on our Convention on Scotland's Future in Edinburgh in March. archive.is/KXPaj

A flyer for the latest Independence Forum Convention on Scotland's Future, which will be at one of my local stamping grounds, the Salutation Hotel, Perth, on Saturday 14 June. Their Spring Convention in Edinburgh was pretty good, and this looks like another cracker. Book now! (QR code in image)

Compelling new video from the excellent @thescotlandchannel.bsky.social - 'Scotland, The Country with No Voice in The World'. Get it shared! www.youtube.com/watc...

Answers on a postcard, please, preferably with a stamp of fascistic design.

'We are all just weary. A government that’s been in power for 17 years doesn’t need the public to tell them about land reform – just get on with the job.' @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social, via the National archive.is/WzdtS

'A Bag of Spanners' - new podcast from Lesley Riddoch and Pat Joyce. An island of strangers. Is this the nail in Labour's coffin? When will any Scottish MP bar Brian Leishman push back? Will Indy be page 1 line 1 of the SNP's Holyrood manifesto? If not, why not? And more... www.lesleyriddoch.co...

Lastest Independence Live TNT Show, with host John Drummond speaking to Lynn Hastie and Jason Baird of IFS member organisation National Yes Registry about its #GetCounted campaign. www.youtube.com/watc...

Places are now available at the IFS Summer Convention on Scotland's Future on Saturday 14 June from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Salutation Hotel, Perth. It's free to attend, but booking is essential. Read the draft programme for the day and find the booking form here: independenceforum.sc...

Recorded by the Indy Podcasters at the Independence Forum Scotland Spring Convention at Greyfriars Charteris Centre, Edinburgh on Saturday 1 March - The morning session speech by Laurie Macfarlane of Future Economy Scotland on Social Inequality and Land Reform. www.youtube.com/watc...

Worth exploring: a packed programme for the Scottish Sovereignty Research Group 'Next Steps' Conference in Dunfermline, Friday 16 to Sunday 18 May. www.ssrg-conference.com/agenda

'The aim is to have a position around which the entire Yes movement can coalesce, and most importantly get the SNP leadership finally to accept that you can’t use the GB pound if you also want to be independent.' Tim Rideout of the Scottish Currency Group, via The National archive.is/t75m4

'Today, as Scotland debates its future, the question is no longer just whether it should become independent. It’s what kind of society it wants to build.' Assa Samake-Roman, via The National archive.is/A6x0D

Just out on the Scotland Channel YouTube channel - 'Who Shot Willie Macrae?' Great wee documentary, with commentary from some who knew Macrae and film of the recent 40th anniversary commemoration organised by Yes Highlands & Islands. www.youtube.com/watc...

'Holyrood doesn’t know its capital budget from year to year since it is handed down on high from its Westminster masters. This makes long-term planning impossible.' Leah Gunn Barrett, via Dear Scotland dearscotland.substac...

Remember to tune in and have your questions ready for this Scotonomics team on Wednesday, you can see the livestream by clicking on this link. Research on U.K. expenditure and taxation which changes everything you thought you knew about public finances. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EtvG...

Hmm... Scotland is 'no longer on the sidelines' at Westminster, says Labour Scottish Secretary Ian Murray, on the grounds that it now has 37 Scottish Labour MPs, and Labour is in power in England. Leah Gunn Barrett blows that notion away, via @thescotlandchannel.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watc...

A great conversation on the independence Live TNT Show between host John Drummond and Mark McNaught of IFS member organisation Scottish Sovereignty Research Group (SSRG), including news on SSRG's 'The Next Steps' conference in Dunfermline from 16 to 18 May. www.youtube.com/watc...

'There are two versions of Scottish history, depending on who's telling it.' Historian, author and broadcaster Stuart McHardy discusses the military occupation of Scotland by the British Army for a decade after the Jacobite Risings. Video via @thescotlandchannel.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watc...

'People don’t rally behind constitutional timelines. They rally behind ideas, behind something that speaks to their everyday frustrations and hopes, that acknowledges the cracks in the system and offers a way to imagine something else.' Assa Samake-Roman, via The National www.thenational.scot...

'In a wellbeing economy the focus of fiscal policy would not be on delivering arbitrarily fixed levels of government deficit.' Jim Osborne of the Scottish Currency Group, via The National www.thenational.scot...

A not-to-be-missed Independence Live TNT Show from last Wednesday, with host John Drummond in conversation with Prof Alf Baird, discussing amongst other things the Salvo/Liberation Scotland project to decolonize Scotland via the mevchanisms of the United Nations. www.youtube.com/watc...

IFS member organisation Scottish Sovereignty Research Group is holding its three-day 'Next Steps' Conference at the Carnegie Centre in Dunfermline from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 May. More information and a link to tickets here: www.ssrg-conference....

Five fantastic sessions. Includes presentations from Profs Danny Dorling, Brett Christophers & Clara Mattei. Plus Andy Wightman, Roz Foyer, Micheal Weatherhead and Dirk Ehnts. AVAILABLE online now. For only £10. www.patreon.com/collection/1...

The Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee agrees to progress Petition PE2135 on implementing the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Leah Gunn Barrett's transcript of the meeting on 2 April, with a link to a video. dearscotland.substack.com/p/parliament...

A final interview by Laura Pollock of @scotnational.bsky.social with the late Willie Wilson, lifelong Yes campaigner and co-founder of the Scottish independence Foundation, without whose funding support the Yes movement would be in a very different place from today. RIP archive.is/98VWw

A huge loss for the Yes movement: Dr Willie Wilson, lifelong campaigner, co-founder of the Scottish Independence Foundation and NHSforYES, and much, much more besides, has died. Our condolences to his family and his many friends, who will miss him greatly. www.thenational.scot/news/2503942...