Tuesday 31 January 2012
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: Straight from the horse’s mouth, or what Mr. Ed re...
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: Straight from the horse’s mouth, or what Mr. Ed re...: Ed Miliband was in Glasgow on the 30th of January, supposedly outlining the Labour case for keeping Scotland in the Union. Between Ed curren...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Gun boats and Royals to an outpost of empire again...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Gun boats and Royals to an outpost of empire again...: Since I first posted this, we’ve had an election, and Westminster and the unionist coalition of Tories/Labour/LibDems under their Great Le...
Munguin's Republic: In which Tris ponders the purpose of the House of ...
Munguin's Republic: In which Tris ponders the purpose of the House of ...: I'm not entirely sure how much the House of Lords costs us taxpayers every year. Many figures are bandied about (and we are told how much ch...
SCOT goes POP!: It's still strictly platonic
SCOT goes POP!: It's still strictly platonic: You may, like me, have noticed that some people with a tendency to always seek the last word in an argument are terribly self-conscious abou...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Civic Scotland, devo max and politics
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Civic Scotland, devo max and politics: Let’s start with a question - who is pushing devo max? If you listen to the unionist parties and commentators, it’s Alex Salmond, who the...
Monday 30 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Another boost for independence in Ipsos-Mori poll
SCOT goes POP!: Another boost for independence in Ipsos-Mori poll: The 'No' side retains the advantage in the latest Ipsos-Mori poll on independence, but the lead has narrowed by some eight points, providing...
Sodium Chorus: Iran vs the Petrodollar: Wold War Three?
Sodium Chorus: Iran vs the Petrodollar: Wold War Three?: The US is raising tensions with Iran, possibly as part of the build-up to a war which has been threatened, on and off, for at least a decade...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The BBC – its role and its future. The SBC?
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The BBC – its role and its future. The SBC?: The title of this blog is too grand, and appears to signal a major analysis, when in fact it is just a brief comment. But perhaps I’ll get ...
Sunday 29 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: More sneered against than sneering
SCOT goes POP!: More sneered against than sneering: Hell hath no fury like a Lib Dem scorned. For the uninitiated, the proprietor of Political Betting (and occasional mainstream-media electi...
SCOT goes POP!: Calling Ms Davidson, calling Ms Davidson : are you...
SCOT goes POP!: Calling Ms Davidson, calling Ms Davidson : are you...: I'm still trying to get my head round how Ruth Davidson thought she could claim a few weeks ago that "every opinion poll in history" has sho...
Munguin's Republic: From Backstage... NYC. Petula continues, in her 70...
Munguin's Republic: From Backstage... NYC. Petula continues, in her 70...: From Backstage... NYC. Petula continues, in her 70th year in show business, to sell out... Petula Clark at Feinstein's at Loews Reg...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Objectivity, neutrality and myths - Kenny Farquars...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Objectivity, neutrality and myths - Kenny Farquars...: JOURNALISTS I expect journalists to be objective, but not neutral. I expect news reporting to be factual, and not to spin the facts, but I...
Saturday 28 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: My response to the Scottish Government's referendu...
SCOT goes POP!: My response to the Scottish Government's referendu...: It's a sure sign of the genuineness of the Scottish Government's consultation on the referendum that it's so much harder to respond to than ...
Munguin's Republic: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM: OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR ...
Munguin's Republic: INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM: OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR ...: I've been tardy (so what's new, I hear you ask), in bringing to people's attention the independence referendum consultation paper launch...
Munguin's Republic: WHERE'S THE TORY PARTY MANIFESTO PLEDGE ON BANKERS...
Munguin's Republic: WHERE'S THE TORY PARTY MANIFESTO PLEDGE ON BANKERS...: Even if Stephen Hester still hasn’t got the message that as a Civil Servant he should not be entitled to a bonus of £900,000, it seems his...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Popping the question: the space between words - th...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Popping the question: the space between words - th...: I have had this little 48 second clip up since the 15th of January, but kept it private on YouTube because I still don’t know what to make ...
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: A United Kingdom and Northern Ireland wide referen...
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: A United Kingdom and Northern Ireland wide referen...: An issue raising its head again, but being somewhat downplayed in the media, was a proposal for a fully UK wide independence referendum. A r...
Friday 27 January 2012
Tarff Advertiser: A rant against Tory stupidity over housing benefit...
Tarff Advertiser: A rant against Tory stupidity over housing benefit...: 'Its not fair', bleats yet another Tory has been while trousering money left right and centre from the public purse. 'Its not fair' bleat...
SNmr: Our own voice and our own priorities
SNmr: Our own voice and our own priorities: The anti-independence campaign has shifted focus. In their sights, Scottish defence policy. Last week we had Tory Defence Secretary Philip H...
SNmr: Tomorrow
SNmr: Tomorrow: Tomorrow is a day that will go down in Scottish history. In 20 years time, as we look back on how Scotland became independent, 25th Januar...
Munguin's Republic: DAVE SURELY DOESN'T THINK US LITTLE PEOPLE WOULD A...
Munguin's Republic: DAVE SURELY DOESN'T THINK US LITTLE PEOPLE WOULD A...: HMCR chief Dave Hartnett (you remember him, don’t you?), says that it is the public's duty not to pay tradesmen cash in hand, otherwise...
Marxist Mid Ulster: Reading Group starts with Value, Price and Profit
Marxist Mid Ulster: Reading Group starts with Value, Price and Profit: A plethora of Radical Reading Groups are sprouting up globally and in Dublin and London there are two currently reading the Grundrisse ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Part Two of the BBC Scotland referendum debate - 2...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Part Two of the BBC Scotland referendum debate - 2...: Part Two of the BBC Scotland referendum debate - 25th January 2012 - Burns Night. Johann Lamont MSP - Leader of Scottish Labour Party Ni...
Spectator: Scotland and Defence
Spectator: Scotland and Defence: Scotland's contribution to the Union of the UK has been enormous and, few would argue that the contribution has been well in excess of our p...
Gauging Govan: Scottish Flag Banned At London Olympics
Gauging Govan: Scottish Flag Banned At London Olympics: Amongst the excitement of the week, the announc ement that the Athletes' Village has been handed over to the London Organising Committee of ...
Thursday 26 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Kilclooney's baloney
SCOT goes POP!: Kilclooney's baloney: I've just caught up with the extraordinary letter to the Scotsman a couple of weeks ago from Lord Kilclooney (former Deputy Leader of the U...
Campbell Martin: What independence means
Campbell Martin: What independence means: With the Scottish Independence Referendum being thrust into the UK media spotlight over the past week or so, the question of what an indepen...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: First half of referendum consultation debate on BB...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: First half of referendum consultation debate on BB...: Here is the first half of the 25 Jan 2012 debate - it took ages to upload and process. You’ll have to wait till tomorrow for Part 2 and las...
Gàidhlig ann an Iapan: Judo: Spors as Cnnartaiche
Gàidhlig ann an Iapan: Judo: Spors as Cnnartaiche: Tha Ryo Uchida, co-àrd-ollamh de Oilthigh Nagoya air cunntas a thort air sgiorraidh de Judo, ealain mhàirsealach traidiseanta Iapanach sna s...
Wednesday 25 January 2012
The Logue Blogue: Do you agree that Scotland should be an independen...
The Logue Blogue: Do you agree that Scotland should be an independen...: It’s a hell of a time in old Caledonia with farcical scare stories sprouting like mushrooms in the night, a fresh batch eerily appearing on...
The Logue Blogue: Do you agree that Scotland should be an independen...
The Logue Blogue: Do you agree that Scotland should be an independen...: It’s a hell of a time in old Caledonia with farcical scare stories sprouting like mushrooms in the night, a fresh batch eerily appearing on...
Munguin's Republic: Olympics: Another Day, Another Laugh
Munguin's Republic: Olympics: Another Day, Another Laugh: Because the transport system in London is at breaking point anyway, without the additional 3 million journeys a day anticipated to be made...
SCOT goes POP!: The Lib Dem message to Scotland : stop being so 'd...
SCOT goes POP!: The Lib Dem message to Scotland : stop being so 'd...: I really should know better by now, but given the special occasion, I thought I might as well pop round to PB yesterday to put up some kind ...
ianssmart: An expected response
ianssmart: An expected response: I've been working all day. Proper honest toil: a Child Welfare Hearing; a First Appearance on a serious assault; a new divorce client and qu...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A glib right-wing Tory intrudes on Burns Day - Ele...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A glib right-wing Tory intrudes on Burns Day - Ele...: I thought Maggie had returned to the Commons, as this glib, right-wing Tory displayed the contempt for Scotland that typifies the Cameron re...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The only fair referendum ballot paper? - but would...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The only fair referendum ballot paper? - but would...: _____________________________________ CONSULTATIVE REFERENDUM Answer only one question - tick only one box . If you answer more than o...
Robin Tilbrook: Is Plaid Cymru a serious nationalist party?
Robin Tilbrook: Is Plaid Cymru a serious nationalist party?: In mid 2010 I was asked by the blogsite 'Wales Home' to do a guest article questioning Plaid Cymru's effectiveness and credentials as a na...
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Robin Tilbrook: Monmouthshire - English or Welsh?
Robin Tilbrook: Monmouthshire - English or Welsh?: This is an extract from Roy Jenkins' autobiography (click to read the text) The extract tells a significant tale about Monmouthshire's...
Robin Tilbrook: Poll - Most English want an English Parliament!
Robin Tilbrook: Poll - Most English want an English Parliament!: There is a significant new opinion poll from Ipsos MORI for “British Future”, December 2011 which has recently been published. Its results...
Robin Tilbrook: English Nationalism on the rise? Predictions on ne...
Robin Tilbrook: English Nationalism on the rise? Predictions on ne...: I am looking forward to the IPPR's event this Thursday (the 26th): "The dog that finally barked: The new politics of Englishness" http://w...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Paxman with Alex Salmond - " certainly the picture...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Paxman with Alex Salmond - " certainly the picture...: Paxo never learns - like the UK, he's past his sell by date, out of touch with the constitutional realities. As Mark Hennessy of the Irish...
SCOT goes POP!: More evidence of the London media's selective atte...
SCOT goes POP!: More evidence of the London media's selective atte...: I'm not really in the strongest position to criticise anyone for talking too much about tiny polling subsamples, although I'm sure Anthony W...
Munguin's Republic: COME DINE WITH US...
Munguin's Republic: COME DINE WITH US...: Sickened as I am by the quality of debate on the independence question, I have looked elsewhere for a subject to post on... and I didn't hav...
Monday 23 January 2012
SNmr: Another one bites the dust . . .
SNmr: Another one bites the dust . . .: Another independence scare-story bites the dust, or in this case, more precisely, has been explictly denied. The Independent on Sunday, qu...
Munguin's Republic: HA HA HA...
Munguin's Republic: HA HA HA...: I'm sorry about another page of jokes. I'm up to my neck in work at the moment, but I promise a proper post soon! ***** A guy has a ta...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Reflections on defence and the military
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Reflections on defence and the military: ( Note: The ideas below and some of the text derive from earlier blogs. I make no apology for this - I still feel the same way and still wa...
Sunday 22 January 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A militaristic British Establishment threatened by...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A militaristic British Establishment threatened by...: There is now a feeling of inevitability about Scotland’s independence, accompanied by an impotent rage from unionists who can feel the wind ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Sense on Scotland's defence from Lieut.Col. Stuart...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Sense on Scotland's defence from Lieut.Col. Stuart...: Among all the hysteria from sundry Westminster politicians, Lords, admirals et al , it is a breath of fresh air to hear some calm commentar...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Playing the man not the ball
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Playing the man not the ball: From time to time, men – they always are men – present themselves at my door and want to ask me questions. Sometimes they sport an identific...
SCOT goes POP!: Explanatory note for deceased archbishops : why a ...
SCOT goes POP!: Explanatory note for deceased archbishops : why a ...: It tells you all you need to know about Archbishop Cranmer's rambling attempt last week to paint Alex Salmond as an "evil" anti-English "ra...
Saturday 21 January 2012
Tarff Advertiser: The Hatred of the Cybernats
Tarff Advertiser: The Hatred of the Cybernats: As I do my daily trawl across the internet picking up bits of information here, news there and ideas all over the place I come back to News...
Tarff Advertiser: A response to the Scottish Affairs Committee 'inve...
Tarff Advertiser: A response to the Scottish Affairs Committee 'inve...: It is clear to this author that Westminster has lost the plot as far as its North Briton region is concerned and the Scottish Affairs Commi...
Tarff Advertiser: A Scottish Defence Force? – a leaner, meaner vie...
Tarff Advertiser: A Scottish Defence Force? – a leaner, meaner vie...: Scotland’s sovereign people do not want Trident nor are they too keen about Afghanistan so in an independent Scotland just what would our d...
Munguin's Republic: BRAND NEW, FULL COLOUR TABLOID...SAME OLD BIAS
Munguin's Republic: BRAND NEW, FULL COLOUR TABLOID...SAME OLD BIAS: Today we get the first edition of the new tabloid-sized Dundee "Courier", which they euphemistically term “compact”. I would like to say ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The panic over UK nuclear weapons turns to threats...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The panic over UK nuclear weapons turns to threats...: I have complained for three years that defence was the elephant in the room in the great debate, with politicians and media sedulously avoid...
Friday 20 January 2012
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: In defence of the [Scottish] realm.
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: In defence of the [Scottish] realm.: There has been much hysteria and scaremongering in the mainstream media the over future “defense” of Scotland recently. Combine that with th...
Dr Liam Fox's vision to "save the 'Union'" (pace HOOTSMON - bastard sibling of THE DAILY TELEGRAPH)
This vision of the sacked and disgraced UK foreign-stooge-of-a-Zionist-collaborating-minister did not last very long although the game is still in play.
Is he now directly employed by Mossad?
Is he now directly employed by Mossad?
Black Op(eration)s Reportage
Tons of it, of course, ad infinitum. Past and present on-going, and the Brits fancy themselves "dab-hands" at it.
Black Ops Reportage 101 Brit-style homework:
1 Research Alan Cochrane, "Scottish News Editor" of the Chinese People's Army Anglo-Brit- military- "elite" mouthpiece equivalent: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. A glottally-stopped infantilist - intellectually - compared to Herr Doktor Goebbels;
2 Generalist, anti-Scottish propaganda disguised as "news" "homegrown" in Jockland - as opposed to the Daily Telegraph's Anglo-Brit manufactured fantasies - may be found in the pseudo THE SCOTSMAN newspaper (for get-down-dirty-naked-in the-mud distortions, please consult these two Anglo tabloids/yellow sheets: THE DAILY EXPRESS & THE DAILY MAIL) - were they all also hacking?
British organs at their best.
Black Ops Reportage 101 Brit-style homework:
1 Research Alan Cochrane, "Scottish News Editor" of the Chinese People's Army Anglo-Brit- military- "elite" mouthpiece equivalent: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. A glottally-stopped infantilist - intellectually - compared to Herr Doktor Goebbels;
2 Generalist, anti-Scottish propaganda disguised as "news" "homegrown" in Jockland - as opposed to the Daily Telegraph's Anglo-Brit manufactured fantasies - may be found in the pseudo THE SCOTSMAN newspaper (for get-down-dirty-naked-in the-mud distortions, please consult these two Anglo tabloids/yellow sheets: THE DAILY EXPRESS & THE DAILY MAIL) - were they all also hacking?
British organs at their best.
SCOT goes POP!: Six shamelessly trivial reasons to vote for indepe...
SCOT goes POP!: Six shamelessly trivial reasons to vote for indepe...: Most of us who support independence do so for weighty reasons - a belief in a more equal society, a detestation of the presence of inhuman w...
Munguin's Republic: LIGHTEN UP...IT'S THE WEEKEND
Munguin's Republic: LIGHTEN UP...IT'S THE WEEKEND: I'm sorry about the lack to postings over the last few days. I've been having some work done on the flat and it's involved a shed load of ...
Munguin's Republic: LIGHTEN UP...IT'S THE WEEKEND
Munguin's Republic: LIGHTEN UP...IT'S THE WEEKEND: I'm sorry about the lack to postings over the last few days. I've been having some work done on the flat and it's involved a shed load of ...
Tarff Advertiser: Dear David - How are you saving the Union?
Tarff Advertiser: Dear David - How are you saving the Union?: I was chuntering about this to the ex-wife the other day, wondering how could Cameron who claims he is going to save the ‘Union’, could be s...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The UK’s nuclear panic - and devo max
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The UK’s nuclear panic - and devo max: To see oorsel’s as ithers see us - Al Jazeera - Breaking up Britain? 19th Jan 2012 Among the many perceptive insights in this article are...
Thursday 19 January 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Lamentable Labour and lamentable Lamont – and a ma...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Lamentable Labour and lamentable Lamont – and a ma...: This lamentable performance from Johann Lamont , with its laboured scripted one-liners and prepared insults, demonstrates why Labour is unfi...
SNmr: Nostalgia meets the cold light of day
SNmr: Nostalgia meets the cold light of day: I was fascinated by Douglas Alexander's approach on Question Time last week. Not so much his demeanour and behaviour (as someone born just d...
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Heart-rending unionist drivel
If that's your thing, track down Michael Ignatieff via James Kelly's SCOT GOES POP forensic rebuttal re-posted here.
Should you be particularly masochistic and favour the attack dog flapping it's toothless gums, go directly to The Bearded One - Alan "Glottal Stop with Edge" Cochrane (Scottish political editor) of the "esteemed" DAILY TELEGRAPH.
A suggestion, do not encounter his scribblings whilst on an acid trip. His rantings of themselves and of their demented own logical curlicues are sufficient to induce simultaneous trips and flashbacks whilst watching Hitchcock's "Psycho".
Good luck with that, but one must seek "balance".
Should you be particularly masochistic and favour the attack dog flapping it's toothless gums, go directly to The Bearded One - Alan "Glottal Stop with Edge" Cochrane (Scottish political editor) of the "esteemed" DAILY TELEGRAPH.
A suggestion, do not encounter his scribblings whilst on an acid trip. His rantings of themselves and of their demented own logical curlicues are sufficient to induce simultaneous trips and flashbacks whilst watching Hitchcock's "Psycho".
Good luck with that, but one must seek "balance".
SCOT goes POP!: Michael Ignatieff's A-Z guide on how to lose votes...
SCOT goes POP!: Michael Ignatieff's A-Z guide on how to lose votes...: If unionists are looking for advice on how to prevail in the independence referendum, they might do well to be wary of taking it from the ma...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The working class can kiss my **** - I’ve got a La...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The working class can kiss my **** - I’ve got a La...: I’ve been banging on about the Scottish trades unions, the political levy and affiliation to the Labour Party for some years now. For the re...
Tuesday 17 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Publish or be damned, UK government warned over re...
SCOT goes POP!: Publish or be damned, UK government warned over re...: The title of this post is of course just a minor modification of the headline on a Scotsman article that claims Alex Salmond is "under moun...
A rebuttal of Advocate General's legal argument
Please see WEEGIEWARBLER 's article (NEWSNET SCOTLAND. COM, Ponsonby article, also).
To wit, Tankerness, Baron, "tanking" re constitutional argument.
Nota bene, however, 14000 UK troops to be billeted in Scotland: The "law" to be backed up with might (see letters comment, Ponsonby, NEWSNET SCOTLAND.COM).
To wit, Tankerness, Baron, "tanking" re constitutional argument.
Nota bene, however, 14000 UK troops to be billeted in Scotland: The "law" to be backed up with might (see letters comment, Ponsonby, NEWSNET SCOTLAND.COM).
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The YouTube debate - TAofMoridura
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The YouTube debate - TAofMoridura: I have a YouTube channel, TAofMoridura . Since starting my new blog and channel after my medical problems (I took down the old blog and ch...
Monday 16 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll : SNP retain lead in Westminster votin...
SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll : SNP retain lead in Westminster votin...: Although it's the headline figures on independence and Devo Max that have caught most attention, one extraordinary finding from last night's...
Munguin's Republic: NO POLITICIANS, NO EXCEPTIONS, NO APOSTROPHES
Munguin's Republic: NO POLITICIANS, NO EXCEPTIONS, NO APOSTROPHES: It seems to me that some places in small town New Hampshire (is there any other kind of New Hampshire, I wonder) have it about right. Dan...
Munguin's Republic: This will choke you up... it really will.
Munguin's Republic: This will choke you up... it really will.: We're in a recession (almost undoubtedly); everything costs more than we reckon we should spend; it's getting worse; unemployment is risin...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Glasgow East Regeneration Agency and the Deals...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Glasgow East Regeneration Agency and the Deals...: UNHAPPY TWEETING TIME A necessary reminder – click link The Sun's report on the horrifying forced eviction of the Jaconelli's by 80 po...
Sunday 15 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Time to call another Lib Dem bluff?
SCOT goes POP!: Time to call another Lib Dem bluff?: As any of you who occasionally read the Guardian 's editorials will know, that paper loathes the idea of Scottish nationhood with as much of...
Munguin's Republic: DON'T MENTION THE TORIES...
Munguin's Republic: DON'T MENTION THE TORIES...: In an article today in the paper edition of the Herald (apparently unavailable on-line), Michael Forsyth, one of Scotland's least liked To...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Nonsense on negotiation and James MacMillan/Joan M...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Nonsense on negotiation and James MacMillan/Joan M...: The papers today - Scotland on Sunday has a piece on page 7 - Lecturer sparks race row by linking absence of riots to lack of minorities ....
British-Irish Council stooshie
Mick's yir man: Offers Stormont Castle for negotiations between Scots and Brits (see IRISH INDEPENDENT on side-bar).
EU membership post-independence
rUK would be required to renegotiate terms (see GOOGLE NEWS & NEWS NET SCOTLAND & SCOTTISH TIMES sites).
Heads-ups re State of the Union
Shambles 1: Henry MacLeish states it is unfit for purpose (see PLAID W blog on side-bar);
Shambles 2: See SLUGGER O' TOOLE blog for some "Ulster pseudo-Scot" advocating partition of Scotland (history repeats itself "once as tragedy and once as farce", indeed).
Shambles 2: See SLUGGER O' TOOLE blog for some "Ulster pseudo-Scot" advocating partition of Scotland (history repeats itself "once as tragedy and once as farce", indeed).
Plaid Wrecsam: The Alternative Unionist!
Plaid Wrecsam: The Alternative Unionist!: Not all Scottish Unionist politicians want to join Johann Lamont in supporting the Miliband/Cameron/Clegg position of picking a fight with t...
Gàidhlig ann an Iapan: Korea Tuath air Tri Astais a chur a-mach do Mhuir ...
Gàidhlig ann an Iapan: Korea Tuath air Tri Astais a chur a-mach do Mhuir ...: Sa mhadainn air an 13, tha Korea Tuath air tri astais a chur a-mach do Mhuir Iapan. 'S coltach gur iad KN02, na astais a tha air a dhèanamh ...
Alba Matters: A different quality of debate? Not likely.
Alba Matters: A different quality of debate? Not likely.: It's depressing how quickly the independence debate has descended into petty squabbling, character assassination and downright lies. I'm tal...
Daily Telegraph independence snafu
Latest poll - by them - has it a statistical ba' hair between pro and anti-independence opinion despite their attempt to massage the numbers ( see SCOT GOES POP blogspot ). "Shitting bricks" springs to mind.
Saturday 14 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Cameron's blunder in numbers : dramatic ICM poll p...
SCOT goes POP!: Cameron's blunder in numbers : dramatic ICM poll p...: If there was any lingering doubt that the UK government's brazen interference in an exercise in Scottish self-determination was going to hav...
Niko's Bar: Labour Hame Yep! home of the Unionist bullys if ...
Niko's Bar: Labour Hame
Yep! home of the Unionist bullys
if ...: Labour Hame Yep! home of the Unionist bullys if they dont like yer comments they hide it away like the bullying yeller cowards they ar...
Yep! home of the Unionist bullys
if ...: Labour Hame Yep! home of the Unionist bullys if they dont like yer comments they hide it away like the bullying yeller cowards they ar...
Calum Cashley SNP: Supreme Havers
Calum Cashley SNP: Supreme Havers: An interesting development in the Supreme Court debacle as Jim Wallace comes barging in, unarmed, to a battle of wits. The good Lord Wallac...
Calum Cashley SNP: How soon they forget
Calum Cashley SNP: How soon they forget: mMost interested was I to hear Johann Lamont demand that Labour & co be involved in the arrangements for the independence referendum. She ap...
Calum Cashley SNP: Typical! They always want to trump you!
Calum Cashley SNP: Typical! They always want to trump you!: You say nothing for a wee while and you get some peace, you make a tiny wee observation and ... Yesterday I pointed out that Labour was wh...
Col·lectiu Emma: Regional governments are responsible for less than...
Col·lectiu Emma: Regional governments are responsible for less than...: (Recommended article published at the Catalan News Agency ) Barcelona (ACN).- In the last number of weeks, the Autonomous Community govern...
A Bankie's Blether.: 2 Questions. Are we seen as stupid or are they jus...
A Bankie's Blether.: 2 Questions. Are we seen as stupid or are they jus...: We reach the end of a momentous week, yet again, in Scottish politics, a week in which our small but suddenly vibrant and recognised country...
Munguin's Republic: PERHAPS THEY SHOULD JUST MERGE AND SAVE ON THE ADM...
Munguin's Republic: PERHAPS THEY SHOULD JUST MERGE AND SAVE ON THE ADM...: There are rumours that Ed Miliband is on the way out. The bookies have cut the odds on his not leading Labour into the next election. Goss...
Munguin's Republic: YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED AIR MILES, RICHARD
Munguin's Republic: YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED AIR MILES, RICHARD: The extradition request from Turkey for Sarah Ferguson (right) has been turned down. Well, I never! I suppose that the judge will be ...
Friday 13 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Devo Maxers for Indy?
SCOT goes POP!: Devo Maxers for Indy?: After I posted my planned submission to the UK government's consultation on an independence referendum, a commenter pointed out that Westmi...
Munguin's Republic: THE ANSWER ISN'T BLOWING IN THE WIND; IT'S IN THE ...
Munguin's Republic: THE ANSWER ISN'T BLOWING IN THE WIND; IT'S IN THE ...: I haven't yet had time to look at FMQs from yesterday, but I had to laugh at the clip of Ruth Davidson on the STV (Grampian) News. Every...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: One of my contributions to the Guardian online deb...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: One of my contributions to the Guardian online deb...: COMMENT 13th January 2012 Guardian debate Response to RobCNW6, 13 January 2012 9:22PM Sorry you saw my comment as a rant. I wasn't seeki...
The Lockerbie Case: Did Gaddafi Kill My Daughter?
The Lockerbie Case: Did Gaddafi Kill My Daughter?: [This is the title of a programme to be broadcast in the UK on ITV 1 on Thursday 19 January at 7.30pm. The description on the ITV TV Guide ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum question(s) – initial follow-up
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum question(s) – initial follow-up: The follow-up to my last blog has happened, but not quite in the way I had anticipated. I’ve had one comment from Fourfolksache (see commen...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum and the Question(s)?
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum and the Question(s)?: Last night’s Newsnight Scotland highlighted the utter confusion in the media mind about the referendum, the nature and wording of the quest...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum – the Stephen Noon explanation
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum – the Stephen Noon explanation: NConway kindly referred me to Stephen Noon’s explanation of how the independence referendum would work. Stephen Noon is the SNP strategist...
Thursday 12 January 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Douglas Alexander and Dimbleby gang up on Nicola S...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Douglas Alexander and Dimbleby gang up on Nicola S...: Douglas Alexander rejects " A politics of grudge and grievance. " Judge for yourselves from this clip who is engaged in such a policy, enti...
SCOT goes POP!: Cut the Lib Dems, and they bleed unionist red, not...
SCOT goes POP!: Cut the Lib Dems, and they bleed unionist red, not...: On Radio 4 the other night, Professor James Mitchell summed up his view of how events are likely to unfold rather succinctly - if devo max i...
jrbrownlie: What's the question??
jrbrownlie: What's the question??: Now that the referendum date appears to have been confirmed as late 2014 much debate will be held as to the form of the question(s) to be as...
Wednesday 11 January 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Citizens for Love, and other thoughts of ardour
SCOT goes POP!: Citizens for Love, and other thoughts of ardour: A few miscellaneous thoughts on the momentous events of the last few days... I see that Johann Lamont has taken a leaf out of the 'Scotlan...
Gauging Govan: The British regime is suddenly very keen on a refe...
Gauging Govan: The British regime is suddenly very keen on a refe...: It's nice that the British are suddenly so very keen on asking the Scottish people to have a say on their constitution. When Scotland was r...
Gauging Govan: All adults should have the right to choose Scotlan...
Gauging Govan: All adults should have the right to choose Scotlan...: The hard-right British regime has indicated that it intends to disenfranchise around 130.000 16 and 17 year olds in the referendum on Indep...
Munguin's Republic: AND SO IT BEGINS...
Munguin's Republic: AND SO IT BEGINS...: Mr Cameron's announcement to the press that he was going to take the fight on the independence referendum to the Nats and set standards an...
Munguin's Republic: "IF YOU SCOTCH PEOPLE INSIST ON TEARING MY COUNTRY...
Munguin's Republic: "IF YOU SCOTCH PEOPLE INSIST ON TEARING MY COUNTRY...: The scare tactics have begun. The r espect agenda gone out the window. And we're only on day two! A "spokesman" for Mr Cameron has sai...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland’s independence referendum–the law and the...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland’s independence referendum–the law and the...: An extract from what I had to say on the law and Scotland on 13th October UK Supreme Court - constitutional and independence implications ...
SCOT goes POP!: The first skirmish in the independence battle : wi...
SCOT goes POP!: The first skirmish in the independence battle : wi...: It goes without saying that Michael Moore's consultation exercise is a farce - to the extent that the outcome is not already pre-determined,...
Tuesday 10 January 2012
Another rant: Scottish Independence - Some Caveats
Another rant: Scottish Independence - Some Caveats: If I read the media right, there are some people in Scotland who assert that I have no right to be writing this piece at all. They think tha...
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: Referendums, who can call them.
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: Referendums, who can call them.: There is ongoing confusion for many over the legality of the upcoming independence referendum, who can hold it, when, what the question(s) s...
Munguin's Republic: WHY IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD--CHARLIE
Munguin's Republic: WHY IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD--CHARLIE: Oh well, that's all right then. A bit of light relief from Charlie McDonnell on why the world won't end this year, and why there's so...
Munguin's Republic: THIS IS THE AGE.....OF THE TRAIN
Munguin's Republic: THIS IS THE AGE.....OF THE TRAIN: England's high speed railway link between London and Birmingham is to go ahead, according to the Telegraph , with tunnels through the most...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Labour’s last redoubt–“I’m an internationalist, no...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Labour’s last redoubt–“I’m an internationalist, no...: If you press a Labour politician hard – and you may have to press very hard – he or she will admit to being a socialist and an internation...
Monday 9 January 2012
Grangetown Jack: Do You Want to Choose New Plaid Leader ?
Grangetown Jack: Do You Want to Choose New Plaid Leader ?: So the leadership campaign has officially kicked off and 26th January is the deadline for anyone to join and have a chance to vote. There ...
Grangetown Jack: Stroppy Scottish - Know Your Place!
Grangetown Jack: Stroppy Scottish - Know Your Place!: Independence? That's Just for Foreigners! Democratic self-determination based on a clear electoral mandate from the Scottish people? Bun...
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