Sunday 30 June 2013
For what we are... they will be: Catalonia: 90,000 gather in 'Concert for Freedom'
For what we are... they will be: Catalonia: 90,000 gather in 'Concert for Freedom': The 'Concert per la Llibertat' began with a human mosaic (photo) as the Orfeó Catalá (voice chorus) and the Cobla de Cambra de Ca...
Frankly Independent: Today's the Day
Frankly Independent: Today's the Day: Independence: The Clamour of Tens of Thousands of People Gathered at the Concert for Liberty at Camp Nou to Sho...
Frankly Independent: A Unique Perspective
Frankly Independent: A Unique Perspective: If you have not yet cast aside your rose-tinted anglo-unionist spectacles, get ready to do so no...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Azeem Ibrahim, the Defence of Scotland – and the S...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Azeem Ibrahim, the Defence of Scotland – and the S...: PREAMBLE I’ve taken two fairly long blogs to explain why I think the Scotland Institute is anything but “ bi-partisan ” (their description...
SCOT goes POP!: When is a bet not a bet?
SCOT goes POP!: When is a bet not a bet?: Just a very quick postscript to what I wrote on Thursday. Last year I entered into two private bets on the outcome of the independence refe...
Saturday 29 June 2013
Logic's Rock: The Union: an historical perspective - is it Bette...
Logic's Rock: The Union: an historical perspective - is it Bette...: The University of Edinburgh has published the video of Prof. Tom Devine's lecture "In bed with an elephant: why has the Union sur...
SCOT goes POP!: Advantage Scotland
SCOT goes POP!: Advantage Scotland: It's slightly mind-boggling that YouGov appear to have devoted more effort to tracking public opinion about Andy Murray's national i...
Friday 28 June 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : SPANISH MEDIA ON SCOTTISH REFERENDUM // A PRENSA E...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : SPANISH MEDIA ON SCOTTISH REFERENDUM // A PRENSA E...: I'm ashamed... not for me... I'm happy to feel and think like I do... I'm ashamed and angry because the Spanish Media continue...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT // NOITE DE SAN XOAN 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT // NOITE DE SAN XOAN 2013: Midsummer Night in Galiza 2013 Very magic and very windyand a spectacular fullmoon! Noite de San Xoán 2013 Moi máxica e moi ventosa....
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Azeem Ibrahim, the Defence of Scotland – and the S...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Azeem Ibrahim, the Defence of Scotland – and the S...: A question I can answer easily – Has Azeem Ibrahim the right to use his formidable intellect and business acumen to contribute to the Refe...
Thursday 27 June 2013
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Azeem Ibrahim, the Defence of Scotland – and the S...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Azeem Ibrahim, the Defence of Scotland – and the S...: Azeem Ibrahim should – and in most respects does - represent just about everything I most admire in a Scot, in a Glaswegian and in a Scotti...
Frankly Independent: Uses and Abuses
Frankly Independent: Uses and Abuses: No doubt, thanks to PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is interviewed in the above video ,...
Frankly Independent: Rebelliously Thrawn
Frankly Independent: Rebelliously Thrawn: Lluís Llach performing Tossudament Alçats (Stubbornly Rebellious) , which will conclude the Concert for Libert...
Frankly Independent: The Thoughts of Bill
Frankly Independent: The Thoughts of Bill: Former US President Bill Clinton in Edinburgh on June 21st, sharing his thoughts on the Scottish independe...
Tuesday 25 June 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Yet another problem that London rule "isn't to bla...
SCOT goes POP!: Yet another problem that London rule "isn't to bla...: Well, I've had another highly instructive day. As you probably know, life expectancy in Scotland is considerably lower than in the rest...
Tarff Advertiser: A web to deceive .....
Tarff Advertiser: A web to deceive .....: Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can ...
Monday 24 June 2013
Geoff Huijer: Death of a King - What's it all about?
Geoff Huijer: Death of a King - What's it all about?: Death of a King – Massan Gow and the Hounds of St Andrew Volume I 18 th March, 1286 AD. King Alexander III, Ki...
Sunday 23 June 2013
Taigh na Croiche: Iomairt na Saorsa - Cà bheil a' Ghàidhlig?
Taigh na Croiche: Iomairt na Saorsa - Cà bheil a' Ghàidhlig?: Mar a thuirt Dwelly, "se obair là toiseachadh...ach se obair bheatha crìochnachadh". Ann an saoghal pholataigs canar gur e ùine...
Tocasaid: Yes Scotland. No Gaelic. Feart horses.
Tocasaid: Yes Scotland. No Gaelic. Feart horses.: It's the language that dare not speak its name. Partly because its name - Scots/ Scottish - has been hijacked by another - Inglis/...
Friday 21 June 2013
SNmr: We've heard it all before - Mark II
SNmr: We've heard it all before - Mark II: The excellent visit of William Hague to Scotland yesterday got me reminiscing. Mr Hague's purpose in Scotland was not to spread happines...
SCOT goes POP!: Donside stays onside with the SNP
SCOT goes POP!: Donside stays onside with the SNP: So as it turned out, Duncan Hothersall's profound sense of gloom about Labour's prospects of winning a by-election in a traditional ...
Thursday 20 June 2013
SNmr: Internal combustion
SNmr: Internal combustion: The No campaign have become so obsessed with Alex Salmond that, in their latest attack, they have ended up walloping themselves. It is a bl...
Logic's Rock: The Baffled Mr Hague
Logic's Rock: The Baffled Mr Hague: So, foreign nations find Scotland's desire for independence, the natural state of all nations "baffling" according to Mr Hag...
Wednesday 19 June 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Dubious legality and unpardonable folly
SCOT goes POP!: Dubious legality and unpardonable folly: I agree with the general consensus that Road to Referendum has been an excellent series that has hopefully presaged the broadcast media upp...
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Monday 17 June 2013
The Young Political Radical: Scottish free loaders, the myths debunked
The Young Political Radical: Scottish free loaders, the myths debunked: FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK, SERIOUSLY IT'S AWESOME: https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungPoliticalRadical Scotland - the hated free loader...
Gauging Govan: On Drunkard, Thug and Fanatic, George Foukes
Gauging Govan: On Drunkard, Thug and Fanatic, George Foukes: The increasingly hysterical George Foulkes, a Labour parliamentarian most noted for his drunken battering of a police officer , has complai...
Gauging Govan: Violent Links of No Campaign Increasingly Worrying...
Gauging Govan: Violent Links of No Campaign Increasingly Worrying...: The anti-Scotland campaign has always been tinged with a sort of depraved violence. Indeed, the last time Labour and their Tory partn...
Gauging Govan: The BBC No Longer Tries to Hide Its Bias
Gauging Govan: The BBC No Longer Tries to Hide Its Bias: Question Time is the BBC's flagship political debate programme, having been on our screens since 1979. This evening, in a rare foray ...
Saturday 15 June 2013
Gauging Govan: Exclusive: BetterTogether lied about HQ "sabotage"...
Gauging Govan: Exclusive: BetterTogether lied about HQ "sabotage"...: On the 15th of April, the Tory-led BetterTogether campaign produced a blog post of such manifestly paranoid hysteria that it led to the cam...
Friday 14 June 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Question Time DNA
SCOT goes POP!: Question Time DNA: Yesterday afternoon, our old friend Duncan Hothersall launched a half-hearted defence of the ludicrously unbalanced choice of panel for the ...
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Frankly Independent: Holding Scotland Fast 5
Frankly Independent: Holding Scotland Fast 5: 1960s This decade in a number of ways marks a watershed in the history of what remains of the United Kingdom, the nature of the anglo-...
Frankly Independent: Holding Scotland Fast 4
Frankly Independent: Holding Scotland Fast 4: 1939 Having devised what might be thought of as a form of benign dictatorship for Scotland, the UK declared war on the malign dictatorsh...
Frankly Independent: Another Slap in the Face
Frankly Independent: Another Slap in the Face: On June 2nd Her Very Gracious Anglo-Majesty celebrated the 60th anniversary of the day when she cocked a snook at the Scots by insisting on...
Frankly Independent: Uses and Abuses
Frankly Independent: Uses and Abuses: No doubt, thanks to PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is interviewed in the above video ,...
SCOT goes POP!: The No campaign. You can't join it. Nobody speak...
SCOT goes POP!: The No campaign. You can't join it. Nobody speak...: I really must resist the temptation to repost every single exchange I have with a certain controversial Labour activist on Twitter, but I fe...
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Tarff Advertiser: Summer time, and leaving Labour is easy .....
Tarff Advertiser: Summer time, and leaving Labour is easy .....: Like many pro-independence political 'wonks' I tend to get too highly atuned to the nuances of political positions with regards t...
dcomerf: Independence as a “Real Option”: Explaining the ca...
dcomerf: Independence as a “Real Option”: Explaining the ca...: A common refrain from pro-union campaigners has been for the SNP to provide detail around “what independence would look like”. To the extent...
Logic's Rock: Parliament of Whores
Logic's Rock: Parliament of Whores: I'm not quite sure what's meant to be portrayed by Alex Salmond's unique representation in this video by Glasgow-based band Spa...
SCOT goes POP!: The love boomerang
SCOT goes POP!: The love boomerang: I read a few days ago that the No campaign's latest wheeze is to recruit supporters in the rest of the UK to "lovebomb" Scotti...
Monday 10 June 2013
Tocasaid: Celtic's midfield and the Scottish Defence League?...
Tocasaid: Celtic's midfield and the Scottish Defence League?...: In the underwhelming aftermath of last week's EDL/SDL 'static' demo in Edinburgh, I found myself doing a spot of online research...
Tocasaid: Signs of Lowland Gaelic in Gleann Iucha
Tocasaid: Signs of Lowland Gaelic in Gleann Iucha: Reversing attitudes can be as difficult as reversing language shift. But I fully subscribe to the idea that sees a little progress as bett...
Tocasaid: Iain Banks
Tocasaid: Iain Banks: Clach air a chàrn. “The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put...
The Real McGowan: BetterTogether, Ian Taylor's £500,000 donation and...
The Real McGowan: BetterTogether, Ian Taylor's £500,000 donation and...: A wee call to BetterTogether HQ.. The Sunday Hearld, in it's latest edition, reported that the No campaign had a war chest of £2m...
Sunday 9 June 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Thankyou for correcting our defective memories, Mr...
SCOT goes POP!: Thankyou for correcting our defective memories, Mr...: England's Education Secretary Michael Gove at the Scottish Tory conference a couple of days ago - "There's no question that S...
Saturday 8 June 2013
Scottish Navy: Down to the nitty-gritty - Part 3: A divorce settl...
Scottish Navy: Down to the nitty-gritty - Part 3: A divorce settl...: @ScottishNavy Scotland is being offered £3.7bn assets - Navy could have £1bn worth of vessels Defence Minister Peter Luff recently sugg...
Friday 7 June 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Make your voice heard - what percentage of the vot...
SCOT goes POP!: Make your voice heard - what percentage of the vot...: There's a poll (an online, self-selecting one) running on PB that might interest you - it's asking what percentage of the vote you t...
Peter A Bell: Votes for prisoners
Peter A Bell: Votes for prisoners: "Two men looked out from prison bars, one saw the mud, the other saw the stars." Frederick Langbridge (Photo credit: ant...
Wednesday 5 June 2013
Munguin's Republic: ROAD TO REFERENDUM
Munguin's Republic: ROAD TO REFERENDUM: ********** Just out of interest: In the Uk the retirement pension is £110.15, with some vague promise to make it around £140 in a few yea...
Munguin's Republic: SO WHAT IS THIS BETTER TOGETHER WE KEEP ON HEARING...
Munguin's Republic: SO WHAT IS THIS BETTER TOGETHER WE KEEP ON HEARING...: Well, it seems that, based on academic research over 30 years of UK economic statistics, the 'Better Together' life that we are...
Munguin's Republic: WILL NO-ONE TAKE THIS NOBLEMAN SERIOUSLY? NO?
Munguin's Republic: WILL NO-ONE TAKE THIS NOBLEMAN SERIOUSLY? NO?: THOUGHT NOT Starting shortly on STV will be Iain Macwhirter's "Road to Referendum. The programme has caused considerable cont...
Frankly Independent: All to Play For
Frankly Independent: All to Play For: The Scottish Government's economic case for Scottish independence in the European Union &...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Margaret Curran MP’s ‘foreign’ interview with Dere...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Margaret Curran MP’s ‘foreign’ interview with Dere...: THE ESSENCE OF IT THE CURRAN INTERVIEW PROFESSOR TOM DEVINE
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Kirkliston – an ancient Scottish village and the I...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Kirkliston – an ancient Scottish village and the I...: On the very edge of the City of Edinburgh council and lieutenancy area lies the village of Kirkliston. I moved here almost thirty years ago ...
Tuesday 4 June 2013
Peter A Bell: Balkanisation blethers
Peter A Bell: Balkanisation blethers: George Robertson (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Former general secretary of Nato, Lord George Robertson, fairly characterised the inanity o...
Monday 3 June 2013
Frankly Independent: Road to Referendum
Frankly Independent: Road to Referendum: New book on the Scottish independence referendum released on June 5th "A major new...
Frankly Independent: Ten Points
Frankly Independent: Ten Points: Ten things to tell your friends about an independent Sco tland This not a bad presentation, but...
Frankly Independent: A Vision for the Future
Frankly Independent: A Vision for the Future: The above report , although commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Nordic Council in 2012, is no run...
fleet street fox: Recall (vb.): To summon back to awareness.
fleet street fox: Recall (vb.): To summon back to awareness.: THEY think you're stupid. They don't much care if you know it, because you're so stupid it doesn't matter. So what if you ...
Sunday 2 June 2013
Peter A Bell: It's OK to get angry!
Peter A Bell: It's OK to get angry!: Make your anger work for your cause On March 19 2003 as I watched the horrifying images being beamed to our TV screens from Baghdad - i...
Saturday 1 June 2013
SNmr: Internal combustion
SNmr: Internal combustion: The No campaign have become so obsessed with Alex Salmond that, in their latest attack, they have ended up walloping themselves. It is a bl...
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