Kenny MacAskill

3 days ago | thenational.scot | Kenny MacAskill

The leadership and voice of Alex Salmond was vital but the real strength was the activists in communities across our land THE double-digit lead for independence found by polling for The National was welcome news – perhaps long overdue as our nation’s plight in the Union worsens. Austerity under Rachel Reeves, institutionalised cruelty being imposed upon pensioners, disabled people and the poor, and now deindustrialisation in our commercial heartland.

1 week ago | thenational.scot | Kenny MacAskill

Smoke rises from towers at the British Steel Scunthrope Site ‘IT’S the economy, stupid” was the phrase coined during Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign in 1992 and it’s something the latest incumbent in the White House is finding out the hard way. The economy is central to the society which you seek to build and it’s the issue that ignites most interest among voters, even if that is at the basic level of jobs and the cost of living, rather than at any macro or theoretical level.

2 weeks ago | thenational.scot | Kenny MacAskill

It’s time to go again for our cause, writes Kenny MacAskill MAYBE it was visiting Rome for the first time in many years, or perhaps it was the article a friend had written about a Christian saint which got me thinking of the old-time religion. As I said to my friend, the daughter of a leading Scottish socialist, there’s a lot to be said for it both theologically and politically.

3 weeks ago | thenational.scot | Kenny MacAskill

We’re not turning the page on Alex Salmond but reading from his script THE Alba conference held in Edinburgh at the end of last week saw the party in good heart and readying for the vital Holyrood elections next year. The conference had, of course, been delayed from last November with leadership elections brought about by a tragedy which befell not just the party but Scotland.

1 month ago | thenational.scot | Kenny MacAskill

Folk can see the turbines turning but can’t afford to turn on the heating, writes Kenny MacAskill COLONISERS throughout history have taken a country’s natural resources and in return offered trinkets and baubles to the natives. The British Empire did it on an industrial scale, taking natural resources from peoples across the continents and then selling a refined or industrialised product back to the same people at a premium.