#andrew tickell

Just say f*** off!

Clearly, the First Minister’s hope of “clarity and legal certainty in a timely manner” has been frustrated by reality. It was always no more than empty rhetoric anyway. An attempt to justify a plainly foolish ‘strategy’. The complex permutations described by Andrew Tickell are neither new nor newly discovered. It was always the case that “clarity and legal certainty” were not going to be found. I…

Just say f*** off!

Clearly, the First Minister’s hope of “clarity and legal certainty in a timely manner” has been frustrated by reality. It was always no more than empty rhetoric anyway. An attempt to justify a plainly foolish ‘strategy’. The complex permutations described by Andrew Tickell are neither new nor newly discovered. It was always the case that “clarity and legal certainty” were not going to be found. I…

Funny how things work out sometimes. I was reading Andrew Tickell’s superbly scathing analysis of the British political system and its attendant media circus and immediately realised how it complemented something I’d written last the previous evening in response to a purposefully provocative comment from my old friend Mike Fenwick. Responding to my observation that the Yes movement has one thing…

Funny how things work out sometimes. I was reading Andrew Tickell’s superbly scathing analysis of the British political system and its attendant media circus and immediately realised how it complemented something I’d written last the previous evening in response to a purposefully provocative comment from my old friend Mike Fenwick. Responding to my observation that the Yes movement has one thing…

Andrew Tickell has a remarkable talent for making the fog of legal argument a bit less opaque – and doing this in an entertaining way. Reading this illuminating article I was reminded of an observation Dr Tickell made in a commentary on the Keatings court action in this newspaper (Andrew Tickell: Crowdfunded indyref2 court bid may be a bad waste of good cash). It is sometimes assumed legal…

I am a layman. I am no kind of legal expert. I certainly don’t possess the level of knowledge and understanding that Andrew Tickell brings to this matter. And yet many of the points Andrew makes in his column in the Sunday Nationaltend to support what I have been saying for months about the so-called ‘People’s Action on Section 30’. I say this not to make myself out to be some kind of sage. As…

There was no single universally agreed idea of independence on which the Yes campaign could focus. Campaigning for a disputed concept is seriously problematic. The anti-independence campaign had no such problem.

Andrew Tickellcomes to the inevitable and unavoidable conclusion concerning the motives behind the British Electoral Commission’s insistence on ‘influencing’ the question asked in the new referendum. It’s because it’s the British Electoral Commission. And the important word there is ‘British’. It is an agency of the very entity which seeks to preserve the Union at any cost. It is only to be…