Category Archives: A Britain We All Call Home

Obama hits the right notes in Northern Ireland

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 18, 2013

It may have been his first visit to Belfast since he entered the White House, but Barack Obama’s speech yesterday to an assembled audience at the Waterfront Hall hit all the right notes.

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Opposing gay marriage today: as brave as being openly gay in 1970?

By James Bloodworth | Published: June 17, 2013

Charles Moore has written a piece for the Spectator in which he salutes the bravery of those standing firm against gay equality, saying that gay marriage today is “as brave as being openly gay was in 1970″.

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Is a defection on the cards in Wales?

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 14, 2013

A senior Plaid Cymru AM, seemingly closer to Labour than to his own leader on the issue of Wales’ constitutional future. I’m no conspiracy theorist but it does make you wonder.

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Lib Dem omnishambles over ‘politicisation’ of Royal Highland Show

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 13, 2013

Further questions must now be raised about the competence of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland as one of its leading members urged a Scottish minister not to politicise the Royal Highland Show despite one of the party’s own MEPs launching the ‘Rural Better Together’ campaign at the very same show.

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Scottish independence poses risk to UK welfare system

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 12, 2013

Immediately separating the administration of the welfare system in the event of Scotland opting to become an independent state “would present serious risks to the continuity of payments to people in both Scotland and England”, according to a new report.

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Scottish Nationalists spooked by the spooks

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 10, 2013

A former deputy leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party has called on the spooks to stay out of the debate on Scotland’s constitutional future.

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Better Together needs to get its house in order

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 7, 2013

David Cameron will today use his speech to the Scottish Conservative Party Conference in Stirling to once again rehearse the arguments in favour of Scotland remaining within the family of the United Kingdom. “There is”, he will say, “simply no challenge we face today where breaking up Britain is the right answer”.

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Next time someone claims that immigrants are destroying Britain, show them this

By James Bloodworth | Published: June 5, 2013

Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what’s wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them.

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Wales standing up to UK austerity, argues First Minister

By Ed Jacobs | Published: June 5, 2013

Welsh first minister Carwyn Jones has told AMs that Wales is making progress in “the most difficult economic circumstances” and that the Welsh government is “standing up” to UK government austerity and welfare policies.

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Speaker Bercow is right: migrants are harder workers

By James Bloodworth | Published: June 5, 2013

John Bercow is getting a lot of flack right now from the right-wing press for comments made in Romania in which he seemed to imply that EU migrants were better workers than their British counterparts.

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