Adam Ramsay's e-book, 42 reasons to support Scottish independence, is now available from Commonwealth Publishing. This is the foreword, by Hilary Wainwright.
The e-book, based on a series here on oD, is launched today - get your copy now.
Scottish independence would release the rest of the UK from post-imperial Britain and create an opportunity to build a new system for themselves too.
Independence offers a rare chance to change a British system built before anything to protect itself.
For all the problems with Scottish nationalism, is it as bad as British nationalism?
The risks and downsides of remaining within the union are examined far less than the potential problems of independence. To be rational, we must look at both future paths with equal caution.
The British class system is built around Britain, and the most marginalised seem largely to support a yes vote: reasons 35 and 36 of 40 to support Scottish independence.
Scotland has been rejecting the Conservatives for almost all of the party's history yet has often been governed by them; independence will be bad for the Conservatives, and Labour offer no hope - three more of 40 reasons to support Scottish independence.
As technology makes the world flat, centralised unions are too cumbersome, while the prospect of the chance to write a new constitution in this new world is too important to reject.
Many countries have become independent in the last 100 years, few of their citizens regret it; and the union of 1707 has been replaced by larger collaborations as technology has brought the world closer together.
A no vote brings with it constitutional wranglings in which, right now, Westminster is accentuating the positives and hiding the negatives under the carpet; while a yes vote brings Scots the chance to replace some more damaging stories about themselves.
We can't let Westminster play political games with Scotland's renewable revolution, and Scotland has unique eco-systems, better protected by their own parliament.
