Archive - Europe & Scotland Newsletter

So What Do We Do Now?

Gaza and our Degrading Politics When words fail us on Gaza, and too on the climate and biodiversity crisis, or on our weakening democracies, artists and…

Jun 9 •

May 2025

Dawn on Eigg: a photo blog

Dawn or dusk; sunrise or sunset: are they the same or so different, the light and mood ever-changing.

May 28 •

The EU-UK Deal: Some Steps Forward and a Weak Scottish Government Response

The EU-UK outline deal, agreed at Monday’s summit, covers a lot of areas and is significant even though only undoing a small part of the wide damage…

May 22 •

April 2025

Global Crisis: the new normal for Europe?

Can the EU and others turn a crisis into an opportunity and start to build a new, positive global order? It seems unlikely.

Apr 23 •

Overland, Olhão to Edinburgh: a photo blog (part two)

From Vigo, in the far west of Spain, to Edinburgh - European connections

Apr 21 •

Overland, Olhão to Edinburgh: a photo blog (part one)

A 2,000 mile journey earlier this year - photos, European connections and reflections

Apr 20 •

Trump’s Trade wars: What Hopes for EU-UK Reset?

The EU is the UK's most vital political and economic partner in this Trumpian era of instabillity and uncertainty. But Keir Starmer lacks any clear…

Apr 9 •

March 2025

Scotland: Independence in Europe in the face of Trumpian World Disorder?

The independence case must be remade in the face of our insecure and turbulent new geopolitics. And that case must rest ever more firmly on being part…

Mar 27 •

Olhão in January: a photo blog

Nature, water and light in Olhão in January. A change of pace and perspective. Photos and words.

Mar 11 •

Europe in an Era of Trumpian Destruction

There is something of Sauron’s malevolent, roving eye in President Trump’s erratically shifting gaze and pronouncements as he continues to destroy…

Mar 7 •

Trump the Unreliable Ally, as Europe Steps Up

A serious, sober European summit on Ukraine today. But, for all Starmer's protestations, the US is no longer a reliable ally or indeed an ally at all…

Mar 2 •

February 2025

Trump and Europe: to Dissimulate or Not?

Diplomacy, dissimulation or appeasement. The democratic world will have to call Trump out as the ‘new’ US makes clear it no longer stands with…

Feb 25 •

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