The Europe for Scotland organisation insist there is a mandate for a second independence referendum A LEADING European organisation has insisted the SNP have a clear mandate for a second independence referendum and that Boris Johnson cannot democratically refuse one. The campaign group, based on the continent, say the Prime Minister does not have the moral authority to deny a new vote following the SNP s landslide victory in the election on Thursday last week which saw a majority of MSPs elected who back indyref2. In a statement released today Europe for Scotland said the outcome of the election was significant with Scots renewing and reinforcing the pro-European, pro-independence majority in Holyrood and doing so after a record turnout of voters.
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Queer Tidalectics, Emilio Amideo investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics. Water recurs as a figurative and material site to express the Black queer experience within the diaspora, a means to explore malleability and overflowing sexual, gender, and racial boundaries. Amideo triangulates language, the aquatic, and affect to delineate a Black queer aesthetics, one that uses an idiom of fluidity, slipperiness, and opacity to undermine and circumvent gender normativity and the racialized heteropatriarchy embedded in English. The result is an outline of an ever-expanding affective archive of experiential knowledge.
AS someone who was born in Scotland but not of Scottish heritage, the continual knocking of the Scots language that crops up with remarkable regularity, genuinely floors me every time. Here is a language that is at least 900 years old, was spoken by kings and ordinary people, used to write official records, was the language of most of the work of arguably one of the world’s most famous poets, Rabbie Burns, is part and parcel of a nation’s identity and, at the last census, was spoken, read or understood by 1.5 million people. A language so different from English that in 1604, Englishman and scholar Henry Saville described the English and Scots tongues as being different as Spanish and Portuguese. But yet, when a lassie on Twitter delivers her Scots word of the day, she is abused and trolled like some sort of modern day witch.
Project Fear 2 and Europe for Scotland
With less than a week to go to voting at Holyrood the media has been awash with nostalgia as all platforms and mediums beamed out Project Fear 2. Nicola Sturgeon was hounded from studio to studio and a sort of feeding frenzy emerged as papers and programmes tried to out-bid each other in the war against a referendum: “Nicola Sturgeon struggles to answer key questions about Scottish independence” tried the Telegraph, “Independence would result in a hard border” said The Scotsman, “Nicola Sturgeon dealt ‘hammer blow’ as RBS warns it will move to London under independence” cried the Daily Express … and on and on. The Herald focused on the fact that the FM didn’t claim she’d remove Trident immediately and banks and companies lined up to say they’d leave if people voted to govern themselves.
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