We are back from last week's UN C-24 (Decolonization Committee) Caribbean Seminar in Nicaragua — a long, tiring haul, but well worth the journey.
Our good friend and advocate Maître Jérôme Bouquet-Elkaïm made, with our participation, four important interventions on advancing the decolonization process and procedures within the UN (to be published soon together with the full report to committee). Against the backdrop of an alarming new colonialism that is creating intense geopolitical uncertainty, and following statements of acknowledgement from statesmen and diplomats ranging from Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney to Russia's Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov, this is one of the most pressing topics in the United Nations today.
C-24 Delegates were left in no doubt that besides the 17 currently listed Non-Self-Governing Territories, other nations - some of which, like Scotland, never gave up their sovereignty to a dominating power - are waiting at the door to have their annexed and colonised status recognised.
Watch this interview in Managua with Sara Salyers to hear what Maître Bouquet-Elkaïm had to say.
I voted in the 1979 Scottish Devo referendum and YES won the vote, only to be denied by an English constituency MP tabling a 40% rule. The EU ref -Scotland voted 60+ % to remain - higher than NI - again, the vote meant nothing. Same with every mandate given to the SNP. Equitable treatment isn't special treatment - denying it - is. and we for one are sick of it.
'I genuinely didn't think that the Labour Government would go that far'
Hasan Piker tells The National about his experience being banned from entering the UK over 'anti-Israel' comments
Many have posted article after article on the illegitimacy of English rule over Scotland, rooted in the illegal Treaty of Union and Claim of Right of 1689. This is not some arcane historical curiosity but the key to stopping the rip off of our country. @SSalyers2@SymbolStones 👇
@MichaelRosenYes A scene reminiscent of the painting by Scots artist Sandy Moffat of the Scottish luminaries of his day: Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Edwin Morgan and Robert Garioch.
Had @hasanthehun on The National Podcast today discussing his ban from the UK, his reaction to it, the support he's had and how to challenge increasingly authoritarian governments. Really interesting chat
https://t.co/DCCCPKDpeG
There are no opposition parties in Holyrood now, working as they should, apart from the Greens. All they intend to do for the next five years , is try to bring down the SNP in any way that they can.
Our Parliament is demeaned by their very existence !
Lots of anger about the UK givernment’s decision to stomp on the Highland’s biggest regeneration project, which the Scottish Government took years to attract https://t.co/h0Agyk9Hvg
I welcome Ewan Crawford's return from Spadland, and his announced commitment to write about the economics of Scottish independence - looking forward to it, always enjoyed his journalism https://t.co/wvxZfktIDy
Oh dear. BBC Scotland has concealed the fact that it was the *SNP itself* that contacted HMRC. The headline invites the reader to infer otherwise. For people whose profession it is to ensure accuracy when reporting, this can only be deliberate.
Of the three nationalist parties, Sinn Fein made the most substantial constitutional move during the past week, Laura Pollock writes in our latest Celtic Alliance Report 👇
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
As an #SNP member I have to say that recent messages I have received from #JohnSwinney and other members of the Party hierarchy have been exemplary. They are clear, informative and have given assurance on the Party governance. I'm also pleased that contributions have increased!
Supermarket newspaper shelf..all the front pages on show were about Murrell +SNP.
None about Mandelson or the lost phones.
Nothing on the rising death toll +destruction in Lebanon or the ongoing horror in Palestine and Ukraine.
Fear of England becoming independent is growing.
It is deeply wrong that Scotland cannot decide for itself whether to hold a referendum on its future.
Decisions about Scotland should be made by the people who live here, not imposed by Westminster politicians.
The birth of the Celtic Alliance of nations against Westminster rule presents a 'golden opportunity' to force the UK Government to listen, the deputy first minister of Wales has told The National https://t.co/jqQ2M8vUVU