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<title>ScotlandSpeaks.com | Stop the world and be heard &#45; : Politics</title>
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<title>Alba Party will worry the SNP and the Greens, but appeal to many independence voters</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-party-will-worry-the-snp-and-the-greens</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/alba-party-will-worry-the-snp-and-the-greens</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Alba Party launch excites a Holyrood contest boiling down to whether the SNP can get an overall majority and who’ll come second. Suddenly independence comes to the fore and galvanises those who support that cause. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Salmond Statement: Inquiry findings must be accepted</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inquiry-findings-must-be-accepted</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inquiry-findings-must-be-accepted</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Alex Salmond instructs his lawyers to take action into the Permanent Secretary&#039;s conduct and lodges complaint to police over who in the Scottish Government was responsible for leaking to the Daily Record.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alex Salmond</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Alex Salmond, Scottish Government, Inquiry, Holyrood</media:keywords>
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<title>#theDavisIntervention</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/thedavis-intervention</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ In an explosive speech to the House of Commons, David Davis MP uses Parliamentary Privilege to expose damning evidence of a political conspiracy against Former First Minister Alex Salmond by, amongst others, Peter Murrell SNP CEO, Sue Ruddick SNP COO and Liz Lloyd Chief of Staff to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2021 00:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kirk J Torrance</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Save our Pubs: Why Chancellor Rishi Sunak must still act to help these centres of our communities survive</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/save-our-pubs-why-chancellor-rishi-sunak-must-still-act-to-help-these-centres-of-our-communities-survive</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/save-our-pubs-why-chancellor-rishi-sunak-must-still-act-to-help-these-centres-of-our-communities-survive</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Reading George Blake’s fine Scottish novel, The Shipbuilders, about the Clyde shipyards, reminded me of the pubs on its shore. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 21:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Pubs, Coronavirus, Scotland</media:keywords>
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<title>As this century progresses, knowledge will be humankind&amp;apos;s most valuable resource</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/knowledge-will-be-humankinds-most-valuable-resource</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/knowledge-will-be-humankinds-most-valuable-resource</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The future, including economic prosperity, will belong to those countries that have harboured and nurtured this resource says, Brian McGeachan in his latest piece for Scotland Speaks.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Brian McGeachan</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scotland, Education, Class, 21st Century</media:keywords>
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<title>A Maritime Vision for an Independent Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-maritime-vision-for-an-independent-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/a-maritime-vision-for-an-independent-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Professor Alf Baird sets out the case to bolster Scotland&#039;s maritime network and says current policymakers won&#039;t ‘rock the UK boat’ when it comes to maritime policy in Scotland. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alf Baird</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>#SturgeonSpeaks at the Holyrood Inquiry</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sturgeonspeaks-at-the-holyrood-inquiry</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/sturgeonspeaks-at-the-holyrood-inquiry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ After an explosive week in Scottish politics, it&#039;s Nicola Sturgeon&#039;s opportunity to have her say at the Holyrood Committee. REPLAY the proceedings below and follow the discussion on Twitter using hashtag #SturgeonSpeaks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kirk J Torrance</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Nicola Sturgeon, Alex Salmond</media:keywords>
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<title>#SalmondSpeaks at the Holyrood Inquiry</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/salmondspeaks-live-at-the-holyrood-enquiry</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/salmondspeaks-live-at-the-holyrood-enquiry</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Over three years, two judges and one jury have looked at the evidence and found the Scottish Government wanting, and Alex Salmond innocent. Yet he still faces continued assault from people close to the First Minister, and Government reluctance for transparency on releasing key material. On Friday Mr Salmond set the record straight on his position. REPLAY the proceedings below and follow the ongoing discussion on Twitter using hashtag #SalmondSpeaks. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 07:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kirk J Torrance</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, Holyrood Committee, Conspiracy</media:keywords>
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<title>Sillars: Build 50,000 houses a year until waiting lists are wiped out</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/build-50000-houses-a-year-until-waiting-lists-are-wiped-out</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/build-50000-houses-a-year-until-waiting-lists-are-wiped-out</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ If the Scottish government wants to re-start the economy, no other programme will make the kind of decisive contribution to recovery than housing the families who need homes but cannot at present get them.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jim Sillars</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scotland, Jim Sillars, Housing</media:keywords>
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<title>All Under One Banner – plans for 2021</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-under-one-banner-plans-for-2021</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/all-under-one-banner-plans-for-2021</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Since October 2014 All Under One Banner (AUOB) has held twenty-two marches for independence across Scotland; mass mobilisations the people made manifest; mass gatherings that sustained, recharged, focused, grew and strengthened the Yes movement; mass demonstrations that empowered the people to intensify and accelerate the National campaign. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Neil MacKay</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>AUOB, Independence, Scotland</media:keywords>
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<title>It’s more important than ever that the Yes cause is separated from the SNP</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-more-important-than-ever-that-the-yes-cause-is-separated-from-the-snp</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-more-important-than-ever-that-the-yes-cause-is-separated-from-the-snp</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ It’s been assumed by some in the SNP and indeed by others outwith it, that the formation of a larger Yes movement organisation is a threat to either the party or the cause. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 19:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independence, Kenny MacAskill, SNP, Holyrood Election</media:keywords>
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<title>Inquiry in to Nicola Sturgeon&amp;apos;s Government has descended into a farcical, Kafkaesque game of rigged Cluedo</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inquiry-in-to-nicola-sturgeons-government-has-descended-into-a-farcical-kafkaesque-game-of-rigged-cluedo</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/inquiry-in-to-nicola-sturgeons-government-has-descended-into-a-farcical-kafkaesque-game-of-rigged-cluedo</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The so-called Salmond Inquiry’s descending from the simply failing to the utterly farcical. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented...</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grotesque-unbelievable-bizarre-and-unprecedented</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grotesque-unbelievable-bizarre-and-unprecedented</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ An eye-witness exposes the lies of Susan Ruddick, SNP Chief Operating Officer, following the SNP&#039;s grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented intervention to divert attention from SNP CEO Peter Murrell&#039;s disastrous testimony before a Holyrood Committee.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2021 01:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kirk J Torrance</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Peter Murrell, Susan Ruddick, SNP, Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon</media:keywords>
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<title>An independent Scotland&amp;apos;s government will be whatever voters choose (and not necessarily what I or Bobby Gillespie want)</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-independent-scotlands-government-will-be-whatever-voters-choose-and-not-necessarily-what-i-or-bobby-gillespie-want</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/an-independent-scotlands-government-will-be-whatever-voters-choose-and-not-necessarily-what-i-or-bobby-gillespie-want</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I was delighted that Bobby Gillespie from the band Primal Scream tweeted his support for independence. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independence, Bobby Gillespie, Estonia, Ireland</media:keywords>
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<title>Trans rights and women&amp;apos;s rights both matter. It is a question of balance</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trans-rights-and-womens-rights-both-matter-it-is-a-question-of-balance</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/trans-rights-and-womens-rights-both-matter-it-is-a-question-of-balance</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ On waking up, my mind turns to various issues from the mundane to the deadly serious. Thoughts cross my mind, from my fitba team’s stumbling form, never mind the plight of the national game, through to global warming and our planet’s potential extinction. I have to confess though that trans rights don’t normally spring to mind. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Action Plan to Tackle the Covid Unemployment Crisis in Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/action-plan-to-tackle-the-covid-unemployment-crisis-in-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/action-plan-to-tackle-the-covid-unemployment-crisis-in-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Scotland urgently needs an Action Plan to tackle the looming unemployment crisis. The following list of measures, while not exhaustive, highlights some key sectors where urgent action would create many thousands of much-needed jobs. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2021 16:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alex Salmond &amp; Alex Neil MSP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Alex Salmond, Alex Neil, Economic Recovery, Scotland, Jobs, Housing, Energy</media:keywords>
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<title>Boris Johnson&amp;apos;s real reason for denying a second referendum has just been revealed by George Osborne</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boris-johnsons-real-reason-for-denying-a-second-referendum-has-just-been-revealed-by-george-osborne</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/boris-johnsons-real-reason-for-denying-a-second-referendum-has-just-been-revealed-by-george-osborne</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The Better Together band’s reforming with Michael Gove and Gordon Brown once again singing the Union song. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Is the Council Tax past its sell by date?</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/is-the-council-tax-past-its-sell-by-date</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/is-the-council-tax-past-its-sell-by-date</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ Finance Secretary Kate Forbes will set out her draft budget to the Scottish Parliament tomorrow, with a focus set to be on a widespread package of Covid-19 recovery measures.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 20:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Chris McEleny</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Budget, Kate Forbes, Council Tax</media:keywords>
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<title>Grenfell &#45; The Bonfire of Red Tape</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grenfell-the-bonfire-of-red-tape</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/grenfell-the-bonfire-of-red-tape</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ ‘They died because they were poor’. This is claimed about the 72 people killed when fire ripped through Grenfell Tower on the 14th of June 2017. It is not true. The ideology that led to these deaths is indiscriminate. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Alasdair Stephen</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Grenfell Tower, Architecture, Housing Policy</media:keywords>
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<title>Soapbox – Between a Rock and a Hard Place</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/soapbox-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/soapbox-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ The emptiness of the “Autumn referendum” rhetoric has been exposed oft times before. But now hard facts confront the delusion of a change of heart coming from a Prime Minister who neither possesses a scintilla of compassion for anything other than himself, nor any sympathy for Scottish Democracy.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Use Election Ballot Boxes, A Referendum is Not Guaranteed</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/use-election-ballot-boxes-referendum-not-guaranteed</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/use-election-ballot-boxes-referendum-not-guaranteed</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Angus Brendan MacNeil</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>For First Minister’s Drug Policy, Better to Ask for Forgiveness than Permission</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-first-ministers-drug-policy-better-to-ask-for-forgiveness-than-permission</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/for-first-ministers-drug-policy-better-to-ask-for-forgiveness-than-permission</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Michael Collins</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Drugs deaths, Scotland, Government policy, Nicola Sturgeon</media:keywords>
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<title>Plan B and Scotland on independence road from May</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/plan-b-and-scotland-on-independence-road-from-may</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/plan-b-and-scotland-on-independence-road-from-may</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 15:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Angus Brendan MacNeil</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Scottish Parliament election: Holyrood vote can and should go ahead – Kenny MacAskill</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scottish-parliament-election-holyrood-vote-can-and-should-go-ahead-kenny-macaskill</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scottish-parliament-election-holyrood-vote-can-and-should-go-ahead-kenny-macaskill</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ I’m loathe to disagree with my good friend Henry McLeish but, on whether the Scottish elections should proceed in May, I must. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2021 05:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>Independence Will Not Happen Automatically</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/independence-will-not-happen-automatically</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/independence-will-not-happen-automatically</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
<enclosure url="https://scotlandspeaks.com/uploads/images/2021/01/image_750x500_6000f42eaa235.jpg" length="85493" type="image/jpeg"/>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Leslie Huckfield</dc:creator>
<media:keywords></media:keywords>
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<title>It&amp;apos;s not having a female leader that counts, it&amp;apos;s everyone</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-not-having-a-female-leader-that-counts-its-everyone</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/its-not-having-a-female-leader-that-counts-its-everyone</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ A LOT of focus in the media over the past year has centred around how individual leaders across the globe have handled this relentless pandemic. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Politics, Leadership, New Zealand, COVID19</media:keywords>
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<title>The Confusion of the Right in Scotland</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-confusion-of-the-right-in-scotland</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/the-confusion-of-the-right-in-scotland</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ In The Breakdown of Nations Leopold Kohr shows that, throughout history, people living in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Jim Walker</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Politics, Scotland, Independence, Jim Walker, Free Market, Economics</media:keywords>
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<title>Scotland and Independence — A View From America</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotland-and-independence-a-view-from-america</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotland-and-independence-a-view-from-america</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>David C. Speedie</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independence, Scotland, America</media:keywords>
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<title>Scotland&amp;apos;s Future: A Roadmap to Scottish Independence</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-future-a-roadmap-to-scottish-independence</link>
<guid>https://scotlandspeaks.com/scotlands-future-a-roadmap-to-scottish-independence</guid>
<description><![CDATA[ SNP Councillor Chris McEleny sets out a roadmap for the people of Scotland to secure their independence. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Chris McEleny</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Independence, Scotland, Referendum</media:keywords>
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<title>End of the Line for the Lord Advocate</title>
<link>https://scotlandspeaks.com/end-of-the-line-for-the-lord-advocate</link>
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<description><![CDATA[ Is it the end of the line for the post of Lord Advocate or at least in the the hybrid role that it
presently possesses? It always was an anachronism post but the actions of the current incumbent
have almost certainly tarnished it, probably ensuring long overdue separation of its responsibilities and powers. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2021 10:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kenny MacAskill MP</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Scotland, Politics</media:keywords>
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