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By: Will Cooling

Will Cooling is the author of It Could Be Said substack, he writes on politics and pop culture

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  • Try as Sturgeon might, Scotland can’t overcome the problem of geography

    Will Cooling

    There is a saying in Mexico, “So far from God and so close to the United States”, to explain how its proximity to a richer and larger neighbour has stunted its development and bedevilled its politics. They would likely have short shrift then for the plight of Scotland, which once dreamed of conquering Panama, and [...]

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