Neil Blain

On 5 December 1994, at a ceremony in Budapest, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in return for security guarantees from Russia, the US, the UK, France and China (Kazakhstan and Belarus did too). The missiles belonged to the USSR and not its new independent states.

Neil Blane argues ” … it’s the very levels of acceptability by the Scots of their political situation, including the manner in which they’re addressed by the London media and their own journalistic institutions, which remain very puzzling.” From the 1980s I was in the habit, for some reason or other, of visiting the Irish republic to engage people involved with politics, culture and the arts in conversation about political identity; often identity with a geopolitical emphasis.

(I) As has been widely noted, Angela Rayner recently became the new Michael Matheson in the serial distraction scam through which most of the British media deflect attention from the billions extracted from the public purse to enrich cronies of the Conservative Party.