Monday 30 April 2012
fleet street fox: Sleb speak.
fleet street fox: Sleb speak.: CELEBRITIES don't speak the same way as the rest of us. Firstly they live in a place where everyone loves them, and people are rarely mean...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The BBC
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The BBC: My views on the BBC are well-know by now, and it is clear that a number of nationalists don’t like my defence of the BBC. Since I have an av...
The Magistrate's Blog: D'Oh!
The Magistrate's Blog: D'Oh!: This character has come to grief in a rather unusual way. Shocking as his crime was (keep a straight face, now!) his sentence should perhap...
Author Jennifer Hudson Taylor: Guest Post: The Turn of the 20th Century by Sherri...
Author Jennifer Hudson Taylor: Guest Post: The Turn of the 20th Century by Sherri...: Please welcome Author Sherri Wilson Johnson . Her novel, Song of the Meadowlark , releases May 2012. Today she's going to discuss the by-g...
Yoshiko Mishina -Paintings: Live Model SKetch - A Scottish Soldier - oil (1)
Yoshiko Mishina -Paintings: Live Model SKetch - A Scottish Soldier - oil (1): I went to Whitmore Lake Portrait Group last Monday. Mr. Scottish Soldier was a model. He showed up with his Scottish Soldier Costume. ...P
Sunday 29 April 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Being Labour means that every election is the 2001...
SCOT goes POP!: Being Labour means that every election is the 2001...: It's been a bumper day for local election leaflets at the Kelly residence, with both Labour and the SNP making their pitch. Labour haven't ...
SCOT goes POP!: Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contrad...
SCOT goes POP!: Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contrad...: I've been planning to write a post with that title (a quote from Walt Whitman) for a good few weeks, by way of an admission that I jumped th...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Press, the FM and Murdoch
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Press, the FM and Murdoch: A few weeks ago I thought I detected a new dawn of balanced comment and objectivity in the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. I dismissed th...
Frankly: The View from Canada
Frankly: The View from Canada: Michael Ignatieff Everyone is watching Scotland, says a prominent Canadian unionist and academic, Michael Ignatieff , an...
Stevie Mach: Scottish Labour - It's all over bar the swim to th...
Stevie Mach: Scottish Labour - It's all over bar the swim to th...: Right after Labour got a mauling in Bradford, we had top party officials like Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, stating the party will ...
Stevie Mach: Scottish Labour - The Dirtiest Players in Town
Stevie Mach: Scottish Labour - The Dirtiest Players in Town: "I Wish Salmond's Father Would Die!" I met an old friend when out this morning, a die-hard Labour man I've known all my life, though a ...
Saturday 28 April 2012
fleet street fox: A total shower.
fleet street fox: A total shower.: AROUND this time last year, the world moved. The planet moves in space all the time, of course, but the times that people actually get up ...
The Magistrate's Blog: Yet More Unintended Consequences
The Magistrate's Blog: Yet More Unintended Consequences: I have blogged before about the Law of Unintended Consequences, an iron law with which Home Secretaries over the years have become very fami...
Friday 27 April 2012
SCOT goes POP!: I had them all wrong...
SCOT goes POP!: I had them all wrong...: From a hard-headed political point of view, it's such a pity that Alex Salmond has had to pull out of tonight's edition of Question Time du...
Munguin's Republic: WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?
Munguin's Republic: WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?: POOR OLD Margaret Moran is suffering from depression, so badly that she is not fit to plead in her trial for embezzlement or, if you prefe...
Munguin's Republic: OH JEREMY, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW?
Munguin's Republic: OH JEREMY, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW?: This week's cock up for the Tories seems to be centred on Jeremy Hunt, Culture Secretary, and his almost daily emails with the offices of ...
Munguin's Republic: DOWN DOWN DOWN
Munguin's Republic: DOWN DOWN DOWN: "It's a very tough economic situation. It's taking longer than anyone hoped to recover from the biggest debt crisis of our lifetime. The o...
SCOT goes POP!: It's a shame you brought that up...
SCOT goes POP!: It's a shame you brought that up...: On this morning's thread , JPJ2 mentioned that he was the only person brave enough to have left a mildly critical comment on Jenny Kemp's pi...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Lessons from Canada: Michael Ignatieff says Scotti...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Lessons from Canada: Michael Ignatieff says Scotti...: Illegal voting, illegal campaign spending, both sides bending the rules to meet their own advantage in a referendum? A forecast of things ...
Confessions of a Graphic Designer: Who Do You Admire?
Confessions of a Graphic Designer: Who Do You Admire?: Jack Dorsey on the cover of Fast Company — Our new hero-archetype? When I was a kid, it was pretty easy to identify heroes. They wer...
Thursday 26 April 2012
fleet street fox: Live and let lie.
fleet street fox: Live and let lie.: MAN dies in mysterious circumstances. He is found inside a bag he could not possibly have padlocked himself. A third party's DNA is foun...
fleet street fox: You've only yourselves to blame.
fleet street fox: You've only yourselves to blame.: WOULD you let a child cross a busy road on their own? Play with knives? Drink whatever they find in the kitchen cupboards? Then why in the...
Tuesday 24 April 2012
fleet street fox: Fascist is as fascist does.
fleet street fox: Fascist is as fascist does.: IT'S an historical fact that when economies crunch politics swing to the extreme right. A lack of money leads to a vacuum where people are...
world wide weegie: A Union of Mushrooms
world wide weegie: A Union of Mushrooms: You hear rumours, little bits of information every now and then, some that surprises you, even shocks to some extent. The other night I rece...
Monday 23 April 2012
SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll : Livingstone back in the hunt
SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll : Livingstone back in the hunt: Of the many, many innocuous comments of mine that were randomly deleted by the Tory moderators at Political Betting in the 48 hours prior t...
SCOT goes POP!: Harris-watch : the praise for Cameron
SCOT goes POP!: Harris-watch : the praise for Cameron: Just before I forget, I thought I'd trawl through the archives to track down an example of Tom Harris' praise for David Cameron, bashfully p...
Munguin's Republic: MORE AUSTERITY TO BE ANNOUNCED
Munguin's Republic: MORE AUSTERITY TO BE ANNOUNCED: There are yet another £16 billion in spending cuts to come (so shortly after the daft budget in which Osbum got everything wrong). The...
Munguin's Republic: WHO WAS THAT LARD-ARSE WITH THE COMB OVER?
Munguin's Republic: WHO WAS THAT LARD-ARSE WITH THE COMB OVER?: Talking of austerity (as we were in the last post), it seems that whist the rest of us are wondering what the hell Osborne is going to cut...
The Magistrate's Blog: Ante Upped
The Magistrate's Blog: Ante Upped: Trenton Oldfield, the Boat Race man, appeared in court this morning. Someone has obviously had another look at the charge he faced (Section5...
A Sair Fecht: What Do You Really Know About The Bank of England?...
A Sair Fecht: What Do You Really Know About The Bank of England?...: There's a lot of confusion about how the Bank of England operates. That's not entirely surprising because, frankly, you're not meant to know...
Sunday 22 April 2012
Frankly: The View from Algeria
Frankly: The View from Algeria: For those who care to see ourselves as others see us - others other than the usual self-serving anglo-detractors, that is - the following a...
SCOT goes POP!: Poll results : Wings Over Scotland is your favouri...
SCOT goes POP!: Poll results : Wings Over Scotland is your favouri...: Lallands Peat Worrier held a narrow lead for most of the voting, but in the end Wings Over Scotland came through with a strong finish to be ...
SCOT goes POP!: The latest PB bully-boy tactic
SCOT goes POP!: The latest PB bully-boy tactic: You might remember that I told Political Betting 's Mike Smithson the other day that I had no intention of trying to walk a tightrope - I wa...
SCOT goes POP!: Twitter - Grrrrrr...
SCOT goes POP!: Twitter - Grrrrrr...: You know, there was a time in the wretched, bygone days of 'Old Twitter' when we would be burdened with antiquated functions such as...you k...
Munguin's Republic: PICTURE PARADE...
Munguin's Republic: PICTURE PARADE...: Some cartoons I've found amusing over the last few weeks.... (click on images to enlarge)
Munguin's Republic: WHERE IS LAMONT WHEN DAVID STARKEY IS MOUTHING OFF...
Munguin's Republic: WHERE IS LAMONT WHEN DAVID STARKEY IS MOUTHING OFF...: That David Starkey has once again made a fool of himself by going off on an immature rant, this time about Alex Salmond and his likeness ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: SNP, NATO and the New Statesman
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: SNP, NATO and the New Statesman: The New Statesman carries an article today The SNP’s NATO u-turn and its third and fourth paras purport to set out the arguments of those o...
OMG! Trampoline!!: Spainish Fascinated by Scotland
OMG! Trampoline!!: Spainish Fascinated by Scotland: As a Scot who lives and works in Spain I can tell you that the eyes of the world are on Scotland. It is something that I am asked about f...
Saturday 21 April 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: Moving On
The Magistrate's Blog: Moving On: I have just looked at my weekly email from the MoJ, and turned immediately, as I usually do, to the judicial appointments and retirements se...
Tocasaid: Crowdie, cream, cockboys and cocks.
Tocasaid: Crowdie, cream, cockboys and cocks.: The superb adaptation for television of Finlay J MacDonald's book ' Crowdie and Cream ' has just finished a rerun on BBC Alba. The book tel...
CYDSAFIAD CYMRU - Small Nations Support - Promoting Welsh Solidarity Campaigns.: IN WALES IT'S MINERALS WOODS, WATER AND OUR LAND F...
CYDSAFIAD CYMRU - Small Nations Support - Promoting Welsh Solidarity Campaigns.: IN WALES IT'S MINERALS WOODS, WATER AND OUR LAND F...: Niger Delta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta The Niger Delta , the delta of the Niger River in Nigeri...
Friday 20 April 2012
fleet street fox: In a rich man's world.
fleet street fox: In a rich man's world.: BAHRAIN is a funny place. Smack bang next to the intolerant, inhumane Saudi Arabia it is also home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, staffed w...
Weegiewarbler's Appendix: SNP; Strategy or luck. Part 1
Weegiewarbler's Appendix: SNP; Strategy or luck. Part 1: Two part article written on 9/10/2011 Part 1 Go to Part 2 It really doesn’t matter the individual perspective on Alex Salmond, if one consid...
Nothing about us without us is for us: Glasgow, Art, TV and Govan
Nothing about us without us is for us: Glasgow, Art, TV and Govan: Matt Baker and Tara Beall ...contemporary art as a collective action BBC Scotland's Newsnight last night looked at the launch of the Gla...
Thursday 19 April 2012
fleet street fox: Perpetual Pippa.
fleet street fox: Perpetual Pippa.: NEWSPAPERS often get the blame for pointing things out. Telling the Home Secretary it's a leap year, for one; stoking public outrage over ...
Weegiewarbler's Appendix: The Berwick Effect.
Weegiewarbler's Appendix: The Berwick Effect.: Elizabeth II – the illegitimate monarch. No, it’s not treason to state an issue that has the strong appearance of being supported by docum...
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Munguin's Republic: Random Thoughts...
Munguin's Republic: Random Thoughts...: Click to enlarge **************************************** I n an appeal to the party to fight hard outside its heartlands in the sout...
SCOT goes POP!: Poll : Which political blogs do you read?
SCOT goes POP!: Poll : Which political blogs do you read?: Apologies for the relatively light blogging of late. Since Easter, I've had a sort of 'Murphy's law' period in which everything that could ...
Tuesday 17 April 2012
fleet street fox: Privacy is a funny business.
fleet street fox: Privacy is a funny business.: THE word 'private' doesn't mean what most people think it does. It gets confused with 'secret', more often than not, and is invoked to sto...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Changing the policy on NATO – who, us? Whatever ga...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Changing the policy on NATO – who, us? Whatever ga...: I haven’t blogged much over the last few weeks because I’ve had nothing to say that wasn’t being said better by others, mainly professional ...
fleet street fox: Show me the money.
fleet street fox: Show me the money.: THERE are lots of things I've learned from being a journalist. How surprisingly useless the people in charge of things can be, for one. Th...
The Magistrate's Blog: Not Everyone Can Take A Hint
The Magistrate's Blog: Not Everyone Can Take A Hint: When I chair a court, I try to nudge things along, within the constraints of the law and its procedures. One of my favourite lines is, havin...
Monday 16 April 2012
Munguin's Republic: IF WE TREAT THEM BADLY ENOUGH THEY WILL ALL DIE AN...
Munguin's Republic: IF WE TREAT THEM BADLY ENOUGH THEY WILL ALL DIE AN...: George Potter has a particularly interesting post here , about the horrific number of deaths among people who have either completed, or a...
SCOT goes POP!: Get Over It!
SCOT goes POP!: Get Over It!: I don't know if anyone saw my exchange of post-banning pleasantries with Mike Smithson at Political Betting yesterday, but given that he fin...
Sunday 15 April 2012
Frankly: The View from England
Frankly: The View from England: The controversial Economist front cover "The piece in The Economist is a totally predictable kind of thing that can be heard from ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Seven key strengths of Scotland’s economy – SNP re...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Seven key strengths of Scotland’s economy – SNP re...: 15/04/2012 The Scottish Government today outlined the positive case for independence, highlighting Scotland’s economic strengths. Scotla...
A Sair Fecht: The Positive Case For Union
A Sair Fecht: The Positive Case For Union: It is perhaps time to hunt down the mythical beast. Like Big Foot or The Yeti, we hear a lot about the 'positive case for the Union' but non...
A Sair Fecht: BBC Video Furore - Neil Fails
A Sair Fecht: BBC Video Furore - Neil Fails: Far be it from me to become a paragon of balance in relation to biased media coverage of the Independence debate but I can't get agitated ab...
Saturday 14 April 2012
Munguin's Republic: WHAT'S THE FUSS?
Munguin's Republic: WHAT'S THE FUSS?: This is 'The Scream' ( Der Schrei der Natur) which is one of a series of paintings, pastels and lithographs by Norwegian artist Edvard Mun...
SCOT goes POP!: Has Tom Harris found a new hunting ground?
SCOT goes POP!: Has Tom Harris found a new hunting ground?: A few weeks ago, I mentioned in a comment here that it wouldn't entirely surprise me to discover that the mysteriously bashful Political Bet...
SCOT goes POP!: The turning of the tide?
SCOT goes POP!: The turning of the tide?: I started to understand the baffling workings of the EU a little better a few years ago when I realised that the "European Parliament" is mi...
Friday 13 April 2012
fleet street fox: A Very Important Seagull.
fleet street fox: A Very Important Seagull.: EVERYONE'S missed the biggest story of the day. Twenty five firemen stood and watched as a struggling seagull floundered in a 3ft-deep pon...
The Magistrate's Blog: Ominous Start
The Magistrate's Blog: Ominous Start: I have previously mentioned the CPS grand plan to use electronic files 'as far as the door of the court' . Now I am no mindless cynic, and I...
Citizen Kane: Scotland: Sculpting an optimistic future from our ...
Citizen Kane: Scotland: Sculpting an optimistic future from our ...: Last week, my good friend & I had lunch in town with a couple of female friends. The conversation was simple, yet civil - meandering from mu...
The Logue Blogue: Independence or Empire?
The Logue Blogue: Independence or Empire?: I always find it strange when people demand to know with absolute certainty every single thing that will happen in the future of an independ...
The Scottish Aeneas: Robert Watt: radical or government spy?
The Scottish Aeneas: Robert Watt: radical or government spy?: It is generally appreciated today that Edinburgh in the late eighteenth century was the scene of many new scientific, academic and cultural ...
Alternate Celt's View: I'm offended when you call me Anti-English.
Alternate Celt's View: I'm offended when you call me Anti-English.: Ok, I'm being blunt here, but it's true. If we've got two years to settle this Referendum for me this is something I want off my chest and ...
UNISON Scotland: Local Government Pension Scheme Funding
UNISON Scotland: Local Government Pension Scheme Funding: Members may be concerned about an article in today's Scotsman that claims "THE pensions of more than 230,000 council workers in Scotland c...
Thursday 12 April 2012
Munguin's Republic: DIV YE KEN...?
Munguin's Republic: DIV YE KEN...?: The Bank of Scotland was the first bank in Europe to print its own banknotes. Ben Macdhui, Scotland's 2nd highest mountain, is hau...
Munguin's Republic: Voulez-vous jouer au ping pong monsieur le Préside...
Munguin's Republic: Voulez-vous jouer au ping pong monsieur le Préside...: W hen Cameron arrived in Tokyo yesterday, there was celebration at Nissan's investment in north-east England, a rare success for the Tor...
Munguin's Republic: 9, 10, 11, 12, er... 11
Munguin's Republic: 9, 10, 11, 12, er... 11: Sorry, the sound on this clip is very bad...fortunately you can enjoy it with no sound at all. Doubtless George's ...erm... "mind" was ...
fleet street fox: I am legion.
fleet street fox: I am legion.: FIRST, an apology. Normally I write about the news story of the day I think would interest you most. But today I'm going to write ...
Wednesday 11 April 2012
fleet street fox: As good as it gets.
fleet street fox: As good as it gets.: IN CASE you haven't read the papers, the news can be summed up with the phrase: 'Handcart, meet hell.' Government ministers have sent peop...
Tocasaid: Günter Grass, Richard Dawkins etc...
Tocasaid: Günter Grass, Richard Dawkins etc...: Surprise, surprise. Grass compares Israeli aggression with Iranian repression and states the obvious when comparing Israel to a bully. Ther...
The Magistrate's Blog: Welcome News
The Magistrate's Blog: Welcome News: There is good news for magistrates in a letter that has been released over the signatures of the Senior Presiding Judge, the Chairmen of the...
Indygal on Independence: 8% of Glasgow school leavers colour blind or lazy ...
Indygal on Independence: 8% of Glasgow school leavers colour blind or lazy ...: It’s over a year since I properly blogged. Months since I set this new blog up and then decided not to tell anyone about it. But I’m inspire...
Tuesday 10 April 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: Farewell to a Gentleman
The Magistrate's Blog: Farewell to a Gentleman: I went a couple of weeks ago to the funeral of a former colleague, John. I was surprised to hear that he had died, because he was a familiar...
Tarff Advertiser: BBC Bias is confirmed by academic research
Tarff Advertiser: BBC Bias is confirmed by academic research: Seumas Milne writes that in Britain "a Mélenchon or Bradford-style platform could not of course make up a winning national strategy" (George...
Braveheart's Blog: Straws in the wind
Braveheart's Blog: Straws in the wind: In the last couple of months I have noticed a small trend: a number of people he been approaching me, unprompted and unasked, to question t...
Monday 9 April 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Poll : How will you rank the London parties on May...
SCOT goes POP!: Poll : How will you rank the London parties on May...: One of the advantages of the STV voting system that will be used for the local elections next month is that it allows those of us who always...
Munguin's Republic: Another little joy for British citizens to come fr...
Munguin's Republic: Another little joy for British citizens to come fr...: Another little joy for British citizens to come from the London Olympics. The Border Agency (whoever heard of not being actually totally ...
A Sair Fecht: The Declaration of Glasgow 2012
A Sair Fecht: The Declaration of Glasgow 2012: To the peoples of the world; to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, head of The Secretariat of the United Nations; to the one hundred and ninety-...
Sunday 8 April 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: Smug Git
The Magistrate's Blog: Smug Git: I haven't heard whether the smugly grinning fun-revolutionary who was arrested for wrecking the Boat Race has been charged with an offenc...
Saturday 7 April 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: Comment Is Free But Facts Are Flexible
The Magistrate's Blog: Comment Is Free But Facts Are Flexible: I have often complained about the Mail's deliberate distortion of news relating to courts and the law. Suppressio veri, suggestio falsi is p...
The Magistrate's Blog: Smug Git
The Magistrate's Blog: Smug Git: I haven't heard whether the smugly grinning fun-revolutionary who was arrested for wrecking the Boat Race has been charged with an offenc...
The Dewar Commission in the Outer Hebrides: The Dewar Commission in the Outer Hebrides
The Dewar Commission in the Outer Hebrides: The Dewar Commission in the Outer Hebrides: Sir John A. Dewar was commissioned in 1910 to overcome the difficulties of implementing the National Insurance Act in the crofting communi...
Jac o' the North: Cash For Access - The Welsh Version
Jac o' the North: Cash For Access - The Welsh Version: I'm sure that, like me, you too were shocked and horrified by the revelations that £200,000 buys you access to the UK Prime Minister. For ...
A Sair Fecht: SNP In Charge of UK Tax Policy
A Sair Fecht: SNP In Charge of UK Tax Policy: As the ludicrous Scotsman Independence Referendum online poll continues to further drag the reputation of the newspaper through the mud, att...
A Sair Fecht: Consultation Wars
A Sair Fecht: Consultation Wars: Perhaps it is just a case of political elites talking to each other but the competing Consultations on the proposed Scottish Independence Re...
A Sair Fecht: Bed-wetting Unionists?
A Sair Fecht: Bed-wetting Unionists?: Be prepared for Unionists to ask for the Scottish Independence Referendum in Autumn 2014 to be open for voting through the night. Why? Bec...
Friday 6 April 2012
Munguin's Republic: HUMILIATING CLIMB-DOWNS ALL ROUND?
Munguin's Republic: HUMILIATING CLIMB-DOWNS ALL ROUND?: T he great consultation of the Scotland Office has been closed! The results have shown, overwhelmingly, that Scotland and the Scots want ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Commonwealth Games ‘legacy’? Shona Robison SNP...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Commonwealth Games ‘legacy’? Shona Robison SNP...: This programme made me feel sick – an SNP MSP in league with a Labour MSP against the people of Dalmarnock, the disabled children of the Acc...
Tocasaid: A thought for Easter from Somhairle
Tocasaid: A thought for Easter from Somhairle: Calbharaigh Chan eil mo shùil air Calbharaigh no air Betlehem an à igh ach air cùil ghrod an Glaschu far bheil an lobhadh fà is, agus a...
Thursday 5 April 2012
fleet street fox: What's not to like?
fleet street fox: What's not to like?: TODAY, in ancient tradition, Queen Elizabeth II is handing out alms to 170 senior citizens. For Maundy Thursday these lucky few - a man a...
Gauging Govan: Glasgow Election 2012
Gauging Govan: Glasgow Election 2012: Well, the candidates have passed selection. They've got their deposit. They've shown up to the City Chambers, been properly nominated, and h...
Frankly: Déjà Vu
Frankly: Déjà Vu: The Tory cash-for-access scandal The Daily Telegraph, March 26th 2012 Speaking to an undercover reporter, Tory Party treasurer Pet...
Frankly: A Questionable Question
Frankly: A Questionable Question: Following the leaking of a copy of the ballot paper to be used in the historic referendum on Scottish independence if it is conducted by HM ...
SCOT goes POP!: Why was a London mayoral debate shown on UK-wide t...
SCOT goes POP!: Why was a London mayoral debate shown on UK-wide t...: Many of us will never forget that notorious Glasgow edition of Question Time eighteen months ago, when David Dimbleby prevented the Deputy ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A tsunami of misinformation–polarised politics, jo...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A tsunami of misinformation–polarised politics, jo...: On the same day as the Bradford by-election results were announced – a landslide victory for George Galloway over his Labour opponent, winn...
Tocasaid: Glastonbury and Topman back in the dark ages
Tocasaid: Glastonbury and Topman back in the dark ages: Imagine that David Hume never was. Or that everything Richard Dawkins wrote was a lie. Imagine that women didn't have the vote and were jus...
fleet street fox: Never short of an idiot.
fleet street fox: Never short of an idiot.: YESTERDAY a man in charge of an organisation which stuck its nose where it shouldn't, and justified it by saying such behaviour caught the o...
Wednesday 4 April 2012
The Defence Brief: Big brother (and his mates) are watching
The Defence Brief: Big brother (and his mates) are watching: There is a programme that I am told is shown on the television called "The News". This television programme has a number of, what I assume ...
The Defence Brief: Big brother (and his mates) are watching
The Defence Brief: Big brother (and his mates) are watching: There is a programme that I am told is shown on the television called "The News". This television programme has a number of, what I assume ...
The Magistrate's Blog: Speaking Out
The Magistrate's Blog: Speaking Out: This interesting speech by a very big wig indeed may appear to be well above the pay grade of a humble JP blogger but it does show how matt...
The Magistrate's Blog: Eat Your Heart Out
The Magistrate's Blog: Eat Your Heart Out: Those of us who toil in shabby and ancient courthouses with peeling paint, fading decor, dodgy heating, unreliable or non existent air con, ...
Alternate Celt's View: The case for the vulnerable in Scottish Society
Alternate Celt's View: The case for the vulnerable in Scottish Society: My partner and I home educate our son, who is a sufferer of Asperger's Syndrome and Cortical Visual Impairment. Among my closest friends I ...
Alternate Celt's View: In a week when Michael Forsyth and Ian Paisley mad...
Alternate Celt's View: In a week when Michael Forsyth and Ian Paisley mad...: I can't decide which quote this week amazes me more. Is it the Reverend Ian Paisley's magnanimous statement : The Scottish people are a c...
Alternate Celt's View: Rigging the referendum consultation?
Alternate Celt's View: Rigging the referendum consultation?: Pot calling kettle black? There are numerous problems with this accusation. First, of course, there is the simple fact that all consultat...
Alternate Celt's View: Rigging the referendum consultation?
Alternate Celt's View: Rigging the referendum consultation?: Pot calling kettle black? There are numerous problems with this accusation. First, of course, there is the simple fact that all consultat...
Munguin's Republic: Soon I will be dead. But, oh, to be alive at this ...
Munguin's Republic: Soon I will be dead. But, oh, to be alive at this ...: ( From DARK LOCHNAGAR ) Ian Hamilton QC I am 86. Thus I have lived in the United Kingdom for more than a quarter of its existenc...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The UK political establishment – an arse with thre...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The UK political establishment – an arse with thre...: Last night’s Newsnight addressed some vital questions about the giant rotten borough that the United Kingdom has now become, using as a sp...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The UK political establishment – an arse with thre...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The UK political establishment – an arse with thre...: Last night’s Newsnight addressed some vital questions about the giant rotten borough that the United Kingdom has now become, using as a sp...
Tuesday 3 April 2012
fleet street fox: Cry God for Harry, England and St George!
fleet street fox: Cry God for Harry, England and St George!: IF I didn't know better I'd swear William Shakespeare was in charge of Prince Harry's PR. Henry Charles Albert David Windsor was not long ...
SCOT goes POP!: Is it the Falklands' oil?
SCOT goes POP!: Is it the Falklands' oil?: A few nights ago, I watched the 1992 BBC film An Ungentlemanly Act , which dramatises the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands (as o...
Munguin's Republic: QUIET REINSTATEMENT OF RESETTLEMENT PAYMENTS FOR M...
Munguin's Republic: QUIET REINSTATEMENT OF RESETTLEMENT PAYMENTS FOR M...: MPs’ “Resettlement payments” were abolished following the expenses scandal, in an effort to placatetaxpayers, angry at those who had be...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Bruce Crawford to Michael Moore on Referendum Cons...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Bruce Crawford to Michael Moore on Referendum Cons...: A letter - Tuesday 3 April 2012 - from Cabinet Secretary for Parliamentary Business Bruce Crawford to Scottish Secretary Michael Moore tod...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum Consultation changes–and complaints...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Referendum Consultation changes–and complaints...: By and large, I’m now satisfied with the SNP retrieval of credibility and response to the referendum consultation debacle, both with Bruce C...
Monday 2 April 2012
Raedwald: Now the 'Mail' calls government corrupt
Raedwald: Now the 'Mail' calls government corrupt: Georgie's Pie Tax foundered yesterday in the Commons on the admission that a pie at 20deg when the air temperature is 22deg, as it was yest...
A Sair Fecht: Independence and a Scottish Defence Force - Part 1...
A Sair Fecht: Independence and a Scottish Defence Force - Part 1...: Already, in the initial referendum debate sorties, Unionist politicians and their supporters have pointed out areas where they feel the SNP ...
SCOT goes POP!: George Goes Galactic
SCOT goes POP!: George Goes Galactic: For years, we were all hopelessly resigned to the impossibility of ever reading a Scotsman article, on any topic under the sun, without at ...
SCOT goes POP!: Assistance for Councillor Terry Kelly
SCOT goes POP!: Assistance for Councillor Terry Kelly: A typically understated blogpost from the Labour Councillor for Ward 4 Paisley North West - "Here is a question for SNP politicians, memb...
A Sair Fecht: BBC Bias In Scotland. Case Closed!
A Sair Fecht: BBC Bias In Scotland. Case Closed!: I remember reading about comedian Steve Martin being depressed and cancelling a number of planned interviews after being ambushed by Paul Ka...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: FIRST MINISTER CHALLENGES PAUL MARTIN OVER MINISTE...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: FIRST MINISTER CHALLENGES PAUL MARTIN OVER MINISTE...: First Minister Alex Salmond has today referred himself to the independent advisers to the ministerial code after claims made in various new...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scottish Government press release on the consultat...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scottish Government press release on the consultat...: From: The Scottish Government April 2, 2012 CONSULTATION ON SCOTLAND'S REFERENDUM Scottish Government confirms just 3.5 per cent of...
Sunday 1 April 2012
Tocasaid: The heritage of Caithness...
Tocasaid: The heritage of Caithness...: ... is Gaelic. Someone please pass this on to those councillors up to their necks in culture denial who think that removing Gaelic from Cai...
Tocasaid: Keepers of the Quaich - masons in disguise?
Tocasaid: Keepers of the Quaich - masons in disguise?: Or maybe just masons? I was unlucky enough to pick up a copy of their rag ' The Keeper ', edited by grey-haired toff Roddy ' horny-handed s...
Tocasaid: The Free Taliban (continuing) of Scotland
Tocasaid: The Free Taliban (continuing) of Scotland: Further to the earlier piece marking one year since the 'Sabbath busting' ferry on the Ullapool to Stornabad route, my enquiries have lead m...
Tocasaid: May 26 - Bigot day in Edinburgh
Tocasaid: May 26 - Bigot day in Edinburgh: I guess it's the price you pay for being the capital city of a nation moving towards full independence. And unfortunately, being independen...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: “Events, dear boy, events …” A long, turbulent wee...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: “Events, dear boy, events …” A long, turbulent wee...: I haven’t blogged for a while, although I’ve been active on Twitter and YouTube . The reason is that the events of the last week have been ...
Peter A Bell: No decency in the name of the union
Peter A Bell: No decency in the name of the union: Jocky Wilson - Scottish sporting legend I seem to find myself writing far more often than I would like on the subject of distortion, dis...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Rank local election wonkery: Glasgow City Council....
Lallands Peat Worrier: Rank local election wonkery: Glasgow City Council....: Seen as we've Scottish council elections coming up in a month and a bit, it seems appropriate to stray back into obsessive wonkish territ...
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