Sunday Herald Independence Debate

 

 ........and will independence deliver a healthy, happy, prosperous future for our children and grandchildren? How would it affect the arts, business, community relations and the built environment – and what kind of constitutional change, if any, would safeguard and enhance the values, and the culture, that we hold dear? This is your opportunity to put these and other questions to a prestigious panel of experts.

 

Top political commentator and broadcaster Iain Macwhirter will chair the event.

 

The panel includes:

 

John Burnside, TS Eliot Prize-winning poet and multi-award winning novelist and memoirist.

 

John Drummond, co-founder of the Constitutional Commission, which promotes democratic citizenship and campaigns for constitutional education and research.

 

Malcolm Fraser, architect, commentator on sustainability in the built environment and campaigner for banking reform.

 

Bob Holman, former professor of social policy, co-founder of the Easterhouse Project in Glasgow and author of Keir Hardie: Labour’s Greatest Hero.

 

Karen Koren, comedy impresario and artistic director of The Gilded Balloon.

 

Lesley Riddoch, award winning journalist, commentator and broadcaster who writes regularly for the Scotsman and Guardian.