By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Mar 23
Jonathan Rowson retweeted: “While talk about values is perennial and ubiquitous and as important as ever, it is rarely grounded in any shared reflection on what exactly we are talking about.” jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/values-are-w…
Jonathan Rowson retweeted: “While talk about values is perennial and ubiquitous and as important as ever, it is rarely grounded in any shared reflection on what exactly we are talking about.” jonathanrowson.substack.com/p/values-are-w…
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Mar 23
@MR3402 This exchange has helped me clarify something about my own view, thank you. I simply don’t think this election is about choosing a leader who can take Scotland to independence. It’s a time for regrouping and consolidating gains.
@MR3402 This exchange has helped me clarify something about my own view, thank you. I simply don’t think this election is about choosing a leader who can take Scotland to independence. It’s a time for regrouping and consolidating gains.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
Watched Sky debate. If it’s true that Kate Forbes gains Conservative & Labour & No-voter support, but loses SNP support it’s bad for the SNP, *but it is probably good for the Indy movement*. The voters who leave SNP are most likely to go to the Green Party (who support Indy).
Watched Sky debate. If it’s true that Kate Forbes gains Conservative & Labour & No-voter support, but loses SNP support it’s bad for the SNP, *but it is probably good for the Indy movement*. The voters who leave SNP are most likely to go to the Green Party (who support Indy).
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
To my chess mind, Kate Forbes looks like a good positional sacrifice. What am I missing here? Commentators are conflating the aims of the SNP and the independence movement. Will people who don’t like/trust Kate Forbes stop supporting independence? Or merely go off the SNP? https://t.co/TbkBMfrsSG Quoted tweet from @Jonathan_Rowson: Watched Sky debate. If it’s true that Kate Forbes gains Conservative & Labour & No-voter support, but loses SNP support it’s bad for the SNP, *but it is probably good for the Indy movement*. The voters who leave SNP are most likely to go to the Green Party (who support
To my chess mind, Kate Forbes looks like a good positional sacrifice. What am I missing here? Commentators are conflating the aims of the SNP and the independence movement. Will people who don’t like/trust Kate Forbes stop supporting independence? Or merely go off the SNP? https://t.co/TbkBMfrsSG Quoted tweet from @Jonathan_Rowson: Watched Sky debate. If it’s true that Kate Forbes gains
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
@MR3402 Not ‘everything’, no. And in 2014 I was a keen Yes supporter with very ambivalent feelings about Alex Salmond- you don’t have to be ‘all in’. She’d speak for part of the movement and some new parts of it. But not all of it, and by no means lead alone.
@MR3402 Not ‘everything’, no. And in 2014 I was a keen Yes supporter with very ambivalent feelings about Alex Salmond- you don’t have to be ‘all in’. She’d speak for part of the movement and some new parts of it. But not all of it, and by no means lead alone.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
@MR3402 I know what you’re getting at, but it seems overstated to me. I don’t think she’s a Tory as such, I don’t think the independence movement is left wing as such, and I think social democracy means many things and there’s no evidence that she hates it.
@MR3402 I know what you’re getting at, but it seems overstated to me. I don’t think she’s a Tory as such, I don’t think the independence movement is left wing as such, and I think social democracy means many things and there’s no evidence that she hates it.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
@MR3402 Ok, that last argument interests me. So the wider movement’s vision of why Indy Scotland would be different would lack credibility (and vigour) if the First Minister appeared to offer some version of more of the same? I’m not sure though. People know that leaders come and go.
@MR3402 Ok, that last argument interests me. So the wider movement’s vision of why Indy Scotland would be different would lack credibility (and vigour) if the First Minister appeared to offer some version of more of the same? I’m not sure though. People know that leaders come and go.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
@mehdirhasan @intelligence2 @Freedland Mehdi, as someone who generally likes and admires your work, I found your book title really disappointing and off-putting. You are clearly good at winning arguments(!) but ‘winning every argument’ implies winning for the sake of winning, wrongly putting prestige ahead of truth.
@mehdirhasan @intelligence2 @Freedland Mehdi, as someone who generally likes and admires your work, I found your book title really disappointing and off-putting. You are clearly good at winning arguments(!) but ‘winning every argument’ implies winning for the sake of winning, wrongly putting prestige ahead of truth.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Mar 23
“A strong case can be made that Iain McGilchrist provides the scholarly basis for the intellectual excitement that made Robert Pirsig’s work so popular.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathanro…
“A strong case can be made that Iain McGilchrist provides the scholarly basis for the intellectual excitement that made Robert Pirsig’s work so popular.” open.substack.com/pub/jonathanro…