A few days ago a woman I know told me that she was no longer going to accompany me to a meeting. The clear implication of her email was that she had made this decision because I had come out as a N…
Source: Carol Craig – On Selfishness and the Scottish Independence Referendum
I have 40 years experience of working in the NHS and 30 years experience of attracting research funding. I have written this to raise awareness of the effect that splitting up the UK would have on …
Source: Professor David Wyper – Independence and Healthcare: please think before you vote
We are in the dying days of the old regime. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Labour look set to lose their grip on Glasgow’s City Chambers. It remains to be seen whether what follows wi…
Source: As Glasgow Labour Prepare to Lose Control, Are They Out of Control?
Lest we forget…..Part I The referendum campaign, we’re told, is an intoxicating revival of our battered democracy. However, for me, deciding how to cast my vote has proved the most agonising decision of my li…
I have read and reread Tom Devine’s reasoned case for why our “most celebrated historian” now says yes to independence for Scotland. First revealed in The Observer on August 17, Tom’s “declaration”…
Ewan Morrison is an award-winning Scottish author and screenwriter. Four months ago I joined the Yes camp out of a desire to take part in the great debate that the Yes camp told me was taking plac…
Source: Ewan Morrison – YES: Why I Joined Yes and Why I Changed to No
Rather a lot of heat, rather than light, has been generated in the last couple of days by the Sunday Herald picking up on a paper by the statisticians’ psephologist, Professor John Curtice of…
Source: John Curtice and prediction
Conservatives everywhere condemn the use of tax increases for fear of the Laffer Curve. This is the idea that if taxes are too high, people will lose the incentive to work and therefore revenue wil…
Source: The Mythical Laffer Curve
A considered and thought provoking insight into the author’s and other’s experience of bring up a family as a single parent.
This is intended as a discussion and information source for those who are lone parents and those who would like to look insightfully at the experiences of lone parents.
I am publishing this dissertation to engender discussion around the perceptions and experiences of lone parents, lone parenting, women’s place in Scottish society and the world, children and adults raised in lone parent families, men’s role in family life and the general understanding of what family life entails in contemporary Scottish society.
My interest in lone parenting comes from the fact I was raised by a lone parent and have spent the best part of the last twenty one plus years as a lone parent.
I don’t think my perception and experience of lone parenting is representative of everyone’s perception and experience of lone parenting and my research project (MSc Research Project page) highlights some important findings in relation to other…
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Ewan Morrison is an award-winning Scottish author and screenwriter. Four months ago I joined the Yes camp out of a desire to take part in the great debate that the Yes camp told me was taking plac…
Source: Ewan Morrison – YES: Why I Joined Yes and Why I Changed to No
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