Today marks the end of posting articles here on WordPress.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/14/the-end/

What depressed me most at the AUOB event in Edinburgh was how evident it was that large numbers of people imagine we are still in the same fight we were in 2012-14. For a large part of that crowd, nothing has changed.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/13/party-like-it-isnt-1999/

Alex Salmond would be apoplectic if he were alive to see what John Swinney is proposing.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/11/happenstance-and-coincidence/

The SNP's internal critical voices.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/11/a-proud-malcontent-wednesday-10-september/

Nobody was actually talking about restoring Scotland’s independence. They were talking about getting elected. That’s because none of them were actually thinking about restoring Scotland’s independence. They were only thinking about getting elected and gaining the rewards this entails.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/09/tired-and-time-worn/

Much as I delight in the humiliation of that odious individual, my glee is tempered by awareness that the coloniser has never had difficulty finding people willing to take on the role of England's Viceroy in Scotland. Such a cornucopia of rogues in a nation!

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25444707.ian-murray-sacked-scottish-secretary-keir-starmer-reshuffle/ #ScottishUDI #ManifestoForIndependence #NewingtonResolution

Scottish nationalists like me are left with only the hope that Scotland's cause survives the SNP leadership's betrayal and the abject failure of Alba Party to step into the breach.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/05/no-comfort/

The declaratory tone of the statement descends into deference before reaching the end of the sentence. That which was unconditional, has conditions attached. What was all about the people of Scotland ultimately becomes a matter for the UK Government. The document is riddled with this contradiction.

http://peterabell.scot/2025/09/04/the-great-wheedling/