Foreign policy – Peter Geoghegan

Scotland’s Revenge

By peterPosted on 29th April 2015Posted in Foreign Policy, Politics, Scotland, SNPTagged Foreign policy, general election, SNP

INVERNESS, Scotland — Last September, Scotland held a referendum on independence from the United Kingdom. The campaign was lively, colorful and, it seemed, decisive: Scots voted by a 10-point margin to stay a part of Britain. But just seven months later, another nationalist earthquake looks set to hit Scotland, shaking the foundations of British politics […]

The View from Scotland’s Islands

By peterPosted on 18th September 2014Posted in independence, ScotlandTagged Brian Wilson, Foreign policy, Lewis, Scotland, Stornoway

DISPATCH STORNOWAY, Scotland — Change comes slowly on the island of Lewis, 50 miles off Scotland’s west coast. The island of 20,000 people has been a stronghold of evangelical Christianity for more than a century and a half. It was only five years ago that the first Sunday ferry docked at the quayside that dominates […]

Showdown in Scotland

By peterPosted on 18th September 2014Posted in independence, ScotlandTagged Better Together, Foreign policy, Referendum, SNP

GLASGOW, Scotland — All of a sudden, Scotland has gotten very interesting. That Scots would reject independence from the United Kingdom in a referendum on Sept. 18 has been conventional wisdom from Washington to Westminster for practically every day of a two-year-long campaign on the matter. But not anymore. On the evening of Sept. 1, […]