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.
Scottish feminist economist Ailsa McKay died last week after a battle with cancer and a lifetime inspiring a better kind of economics in Scotland and across the world.
Last week’s attempts at arm-twisting Scotland over sterling and European Union membership have backfired. But an independent Scotland should want no part in either surrendering monetary sovereignty or EU constitutionalised neoliberalism.
David Cameron encouraged the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland to contact their loved ones in Scotland about the independence referendum. Here a father in the north of England writes to his daughter and son in law in Scotland.
The debate over Scotland’s EU entry is being snarled up in the agendas of international actors. The consequences will be bad for all.
What can be learnt from the recent intervention of George Osborne, and why Westminster continues to inadvertently undermine the case for union.
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.
To be free of Westminster's distant and venal elite is something the English should support - if the Scots can manage it, perhaps one day England might too.
Even if the vote is a No, independence is now a firm and plausible option which won't go away.
