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The SNP’s colonialism myth

6 December 2022

3:05 AM

6 December 2022

3:05 AM

There have been strange goings on in Scotland. A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court clarified that the Scottish parliament does not have the power to unilaterally call a second independence referendum. The ruling was never going to have gone down well with the SNP, but has the Supreme Court’s slap down sent the nationalist movement doolally?

Take the strange case of Michael Russell’s comparison of the current UK government to the British Raj in the days of the Empire.

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