Thursday 26 July 2012
Monday 23 July 2012
Saturday 21 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
Straight Up: Good for Scotland, Good for Labour
Straight Up: Good for Scotland, Good for Labour: Over the next two years, there will be countless headlines, opinions, and righteous self opinions on the case for Scottish independence. ...
Thursday 19 July 2012
Munguin's Republic: OLYMPIC CHAOS ON DAY ONE
Munguin's Republic: OLYMPIC CHAOS ON DAY ONE: The Olympics got off to a ...erm ... start today as the woeful incompetence of the organisers showed that what they said they could do in th...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Nicola Sturgeon on Trident on Question Time, 7th M...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Nicola Sturgeon on Trident on Question Time, 7th M...: Nicola in May 2009 in Dunfermline - only two years into the SNP's first term of minority government, filled with passion and deep anti-nucle...
SCOT goes POP!: Why there should be a referendum on NATO membershi...
SCOT goes POP!: Why there should be a referendum on NATO membershi...: I'm not an SNP Kremlinologist, so I can only guess at the significance of the deferral of a decision on legislating for same-sex marriage. ...
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Truth and transparency in politics – unrealisable ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Truth and transparency in politics – unrealisable ...: JESUS: To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the...
Frankly: Oh What a Tangled Web (Part 2)
Frankly: Oh What a Tangled Web (Part 2): Paul Jorion Here in English is the second part of Paul Jorion 's recent blog post La manipulation du LIBOR , the f...
Frankly: This Happy Breed
Frankly: This Happy Breed: "Xenophobia is an English characteristic and doesn't stop at the Scots." (Lena the Hyena, responding to a Bella Cal...
Monday 16 July 2012
Munguin's Republic: FACTS THE UNIONISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.
Munguin's Republic: FACTS THE UNIONISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW.: Think about it. Report after report says that we would be miles better off without the UK and its endless wars and nucle...
Munguin's Republic: SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE FROM THE TAIWAN POINT OF VIE...
Munguin's Republic: SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE FROM THE TAIWAN POINT OF VIE...: This is the take of a news channel in Taiwan on the subject of Scottish Independence. I really like the spelling mistake that makes it eve...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Unhappy tweeting time – devo-max
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Unhappy tweeting time – devo-max: Tweets Peter Curran @ moridura The voice of the people of Scotland is heard at the ballot box, and if necessary, on the streets, ...
Sunday 15 July 2012
Saturday 14 July 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Labour for Independence?
Lallands Peat Worrier: Labour for Independence?: Beyond the pale, disreputable, thoroughly discreditable, incredible, unthinkable . At some point in our lives, most of us should have e...
Friday 13 July 2012
Thursday 12 July 2012
Wednesday 11 July 2012
Munguin's Republic: A STEP TOO FAR FOR THE VESTED INTEREST GRANDEES
Munguin's Republic: A STEP TOO FAR FOR THE VESTED INTEREST GRANDEES: The Guardian reported yesterday a letter sent by 9 Tory ex-cabinet ministers (and David Steele...why?) to Cameron, demanding that he scup...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Better Together in the rotten UK? Naw …
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Better Together in the rotten UK? Naw …: Is Scotland really Better Together in the UK? In a country where the criminal powerful are rarely called to account? " Once you've broken...
Tuesday 10 July 2012
Tocasaid: Basque punk rock
Tocasaid: Basque punk rock: Have you ever heard of the Basque cringe? No. Doesn't exist. As mentioned earlier , on a recent trip to Euskadi I was struck by the self...
SCOT goes POP!: Would you like to "upgrade" from Scot to Brit, sir...
SCOT goes POP!: Would you like to "upgrade" from Scot to Brit, sir...: This unwittingly revealing contribution from a Scottish Tory stalwart on Political Betting raised a smile in the early hours of this morning...
Monday 9 July 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Trapper Cameron's humbug & poppycock...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Trapper Cameron's humbug & poppycock...: Quoth the Herald this week, in a piece headlined "Cameron under pressure to stage vote on independence"... "The referendum talks cen...P
Sunday 8 July 2012
Gauging Govan: How Should Scotland Function After Independence?
Gauging Govan: How Should Scotland Function After Independence?: The most important thing to remember about independence is that it is not and cannot simply be a matter of ripping the British flag down and...
Saturday 7 July 2012
Friday 6 July 2012
Munguin's Republic: ENGLISH TORY DINING CLUB FUNDS THE NO CAMPAIGN
Munguin's Republic: ENGLISH TORY DINING CLUB FUNDS THE NO CAMPAIGN: An article in the Herald today, brought to my attention by Dubbieside, has lifted the lid on the secrecy of the funding of the Bitter cam...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Sitting on de fence on defence
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Sitting on de fence on defence: The UK Parliament’s Defence Committee is appointed by the Commons to “ examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Ministry ...
A Soldier's Thoughts: To Know The Taste Of Ecstasy
A Soldier's Thoughts: To Know The Taste Of Ecstasy: ‘O my Darling My hunger grows feeding passions flame~ ~Desire burns within my soul crying out your name~ ~I long to hold ...
Lallands Peat Worrier: A nationalist liferaft, but who is it for?
Lallands Peat Worrier: A nationalist liferaft, but who is it for?: By nature, I'm something of a switherer. I could try to paint this as a virtue, suspicious of the verities of one side and open to alter...
Thursday 5 July 2012
Tocasaid: Euskadi - colour and culture against the big natio...
Tocasaid: Euskadi - colour and culture against the big natio...: Having been in the Basque Country for the past few days, I've noticed much in comparison with the situation at home in Scotland from both...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Help Catalonia: Spanish Courts Rule Against Catalan. Again.
Help Catalonia: Spanish Courts Rule Against Catalan. Again.: The Spanish Supreme Court just ruled that Catalan be eliminated as the language to be used in schools in Catalonia. The ruling affects kids...
Monday 2 July 2012
Sunday 1 July 2012
Frankly: The Shape of Things to Come
Frankly: The Shape of Things to Come: "EU Integration Must Be Speeded Up" Le Figaro, Paris, June 22nd 2012 In an interview in Le Figaro and in four ot...
Frankly: Disaffection Spreads
Frankly: Disaffection Spreads: Jersey (from an 18th-century maritime chart) Click on the picture for more detail. On June 27th Senator Sir Philip ...
Frankly: Don Roberto
Frankly: Don Roberto: William Ewart Gladstone Irish Home Rule Bill 2nd Reading, 1886 By declaring support for Home Rule Liberal prime minister...
Frankly: 'Nationalists' and 'Unionists'
Frankly: 'Nationalists' and 'Unionists': Wiener Zeitung, June 4th 2012 The title of the above Austrian newspaper article - "We Are Not Nationalists" - app...
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