The European election is the last major political set piece event in the UK before Scotland votes on its constitutional future. Who wins that vote could have a profound impact on the country.
The environmental movement will never save the planet unless it actively focuses its ire clearly on those who are most to blame for the crisis - the powerful.
Britain is in a state of self denial, sitting at the bottom of European league tables, but convinced it still rules the waves. The aspirations of the SNP may seem ambitious, but all they are really proposing is to be a normal European country.
Polls last week show how damaged the Better Together parties have been by their negative campaigns in Scotland, while an English UKIP Euro victory could boost the yes campaign.
What's going on in Scotland, why the English should care about it: this week's NovaraMedia podcast was a discussion with current and former OurKingdom co-editors.
The neo-liberal project has purged democracy from almost every corner of our lives. In doing so, it has changed our understanding of the world, and so who we are. A council tax referendum in Brighton would be a signal that England's democratic soul is still alive.
The pound is a free floating currency. No one needs Osborne's permission to use it. But it is also a very expensive currency, destroying Scottish exports and so Scottish jobs. Independence will bring the opportunity for Scots to set up their own currency. It's one they should grab.
There are ten, or maybe eleven, legislatures in the island chain known to the British as the British Isles - and three, or maybe four, armies. We see ourselves as relatively uniform, but the inhabitants and constitutions of the North Atlantic Archipelago are an eclectic bunch.
There are around seventeen languages native to the UK. Some are on the verge of extinction. Much more should be done to save them - starting, in some cases, with the basic step of recognising that they exist.
The media emphasise hypothetical and occasional gender segregation at British universities but roundly ignore the real sexism faced by students every day. The current brouhaha has more to do with Islamophobia than feminism.
The Scottish Parliament today debated the SNP's white paper on the future of an independent Scotland. Adam Ramsay went along...
With the vast radical independence conference this weekend and the Scottish government's white paper coming out tomorrow, things are moving forward apace in the run up to Scotland's independence referendum - and the debate is getting more interesting.
