Thursday, 31 May 2012
fleet street fox: Poor bloody animals.
fleet street fox: Poor bloody animals.: BEING part of the axis of evil didn't cut the mustard. The forced labour camps never raise much of a global eyebrow. Having one of the w...
The Magistrate's Blog: Integrity
The Magistrate's Blog: Integrity: I was privy last year to an email exchange about a case that stretched out over three days. One comment sticks in my mind (and I paraphrase)...
A Bankie's Blether.: An Unbiased Report. Match it, my BBC.
A Bankie's Blether.: An Unbiased Report. Match it, my BBC.: They are pretty much finished then - no, not the LibDems but the Scottish Council Elections! Just 4 seats remain to be determined (antici...
A Bankie's Blether.: I Read The News Today - Oh Boy (Lennon and McCartn...
A Bankie's Blether.: I Read The News Today - Oh Boy (Lennon and McCartn...: "Twitter now writes the first draft of history, where journalism used to." John Birmingham is one of my favourite fiction authors w...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
fleet street fox: General principles.
fleet street fox: General principles.: THE newspapers of Britain are peculiar things. They're different to the ones you get elsewhere. They are mischievous, punchy, and capable ...
SCOT goes POP!: Or alternatively, Mr Smithson, you could have just...
SCOT goes POP!: Or alternatively, Mr Smithson, you could have just...: "Gawd." Can he "be arsed"? Yup, you've guessed it, it's our old friend Mike 'Varied Vocabulary' Smithson, editor of the right-wing discu...
The Magistrate's Blog: Any Old Iron?
The Magistrate's Blog: Any Old Iron?: In the last month I have seen a couple of cases of the currently prevalent crime of stealing metal to sell into the burgeoning scrap trade. ...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Unionism is right. Not left.
SCOT goes POP!: Unionism is right. Not left.: I've read a couple of unionist-flavoured articles over the last few hours that have posed similar questions in my mind, so I thought I'd tak...
Monday, 28 May 2012
Munguin's Republic: IS PEACEFUL PROTEST NO LONGER ALLOWED IN ENGLAND?
Munguin's Republic: IS PEACEFUL PROTEST NO LONGER ALLOWED IN ENGLAND?: S cores of people were arrested and many more detained before the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last April, leading to claims...
Munguin's Republic: THIS WEEK ISN'T STARTING TOO WELL FOR CAMERON
Munguin's Republic: THIS WEEK ISN'T STARTING TOO WELL FOR CAMERON: "From: SWAYNE, Desmond Sent: 16 May 2012 10:45 Subject: PMQs Comrades, ..........I anticipate lots of LoL gags so let's have a protect...
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Tocasaid: The Black Dwarf, the Unionists and their socialist...
Tocasaid: The Black Dwarf, the Unionists and their socialist...: The 'YES' campaign's launch this week was greeted with the familiar gurning by those who would have us believe that Scotland 'cannae do...
Post Euphoria ... here is @newsundayherald front page one more time
Post Euphoria ... here is @newsundayherald front page one more time: Post Euphoria ... here is @newsundayherald front page one more time
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Scottish Navy: A manifesto for the New Scots Navy
Scottish Navy: A manifesto for the New Scots Navy: @ScottishNavy On the day the independence campaign is launched, here is a call for a Scots Navy we can believe in - one grounded in reason...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The British Traitor Lord who enabled the fall of S...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The British Traitor Lord who enabled the fall of S...: This was - and is - Britain, the British Establishment and the British aristocracy. A conspiracy of wealth and power, significantly immu...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The YES Campaign, Newsnight and Emily Maitlis
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The YES Campaign, Newsnight and Emily Maitlis: Yesterday’s television news coverage of the YES Campaign launch in Edinburgh was - to me - reasonable in scope, coverage and comment. From t...
Scottish independence: Twitter reaction to ‘Yes’ campaign launch - Politics - Scotsman.com
Politics, Stuff and things: Creating a Scottish Model
Politics, Stuff and things: Creating a Scottish Model: Scotland will soon have the chance to become and independent nation and possibly the option of having more control of it's own future v...
Friday, 25 May 2012
Munguin's Republic: TEN REASONS TO SAY YES TO INDEPENDENCE
Munguin's Republic: TEN REASONS TO SAY YES TO INDEPENDENCE: I make no excuses for shamelessly copying this from Dark Lochnagar. It's a great post and heart warmingly cheering now that the UK has slipp...
Thursday, 24 May 2012
fleet street fox: Pity the perverts.
fleet street fox: Pity the perverts.: POOR old sex offenders. They have such a hard time of it, don't they? The stigma, the questions, all that nasty old blame. It's rotten rea...
fleet street fox: All hail Naomi.
fleet street fox: All hail Naomi.: THERE are many awful things in the world that we just can't seem to get rid of. Famine. Violence. Oppression. War. Richard Branson. Perh...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Can Holyrood repudiate the UK Supreme Court's civi...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Can Holyrood repudiate the UK Supreme Court's civi...: I've written before about how the creation of the UK Supreme Court in 2009 was an opportunity taken by the new Unionist stylists to promo...
Munguin's Republic: LET US KNOW THE TRUTH MR SALMOND
Munguin's Republic: LET US KNOW THE TRUTH MR SALMOND: Megrahi is dead. There are those who rejoiced at that news. I did not. I've never thought that he was guilty. I've always been of the ...
The Magistrate's Blog: Well Down To Standard
The Magistrate's Blog: Well Down To Standard: Today's Mail headline reads: Contempt for our democracy: Overruling our Parliament, unelected European judges insist prisoners MUST get t...
fleet street fox: Social (adj.): Friendly relations with others.
fleet street fox: Social (adj.): Friendly relations with others.: THE good thing about deckchairs is that they are infinitely rearrangeable. That's presumably why, when we're in the middle of the greatest...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
fleet street fox: Jubil-what?
fleet street fox: Jubil-what?: JUBILEE season is upon us and from the coverage you'd be forgiven for thinking that Elizabeth II is just like Elizabeth I. Our little whit...
Monday, 21 May 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Thoughts for Scots–the SNP and the Left
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Thoughts for Scots–the SNP and the Left: PREAMBLE A question – to whom am I addressing these thoughts and ideas, and with what objective? The SNP strategists? The independence-sup...
Sunday, 20 May 2012
world wide weegie: world wide weegie: Whatever happened to the 67%
world wide weegie: world wide weegie: Whatever happened to the 67%: world wide weegie: Whatever happened to the 67% : The results of May 3 local election, have brought the usual political hysteria of ‘Mine’s ...
The Magistrate's Blog: The Dark Underside of Society
The Magistrate's Blog: The Dark Underside of Society: I am not one who is easily shocked, and over the years I have seen some unpleasant examples of human frailty, but last week I had to read ab...
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Munguin's Republic: WONGA RULES, OK!
Munguin's Republic: WONGA RULES, OK!: A report from Adrain Beecrof t, venture capitalist woth £100,000,000, the man behind such classy organisations as Wonga.com, which lends m...
Munguin's Republic: RIGHT BACK AT YA COE!
Munguin's Republic: RIGHT BACK AT YA COE!: Excitement is growing. All over these islands last night people could hardly sleep. Was this because of the Euro crisis from which we ar...
Friday, 18 May 2012
Munguin's Republic: AND WHAT IS IT THAT YOU DO? OH YES, YOU KILL PEOPL...
Munguin's Republic: AND WHAT IS IT THAT YOU DO? OH YES, YOU KILL PEOPL...: Well queen Elizabeth embarrassed us all by welcoming at several odious tyrants to Windsor Castle, England, today for lunch. She apparen...
Tocasaid: Hearts and Hibs - those celeb supporters!
Tocasaid: Hearts and Hibs - those celeb supporters!: Its the most interesting Scottish Cup Final for a long time. The media are having a field day. To be honest its refreshing to have somet...
Frankly: Constitution Day
Frankly: Constitution Day: Coat of arms of the kingdom of Norway Notwithstanding the possibility that the anglo-media have omitted to mention ...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
fleet street fox: Dear God...
fleet street fox: Dear God...: HELLO. I haven't spoken to you in a while, largely because I don't think you're there. You kill people, and you invented paedophiles. I do...
Munguin's Republic: STILL IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE; IT COULD HAVE BEEN...
Munguin's Republic: STILL IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE; IT COULD HAVE BEEN...: For a nausea inducing few minutes of "we're just ordinary people" you'd go a long way to beat the right honourable Justine (the only pre...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Scotsman, defence and independence – realism t...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Scotsman, defence and independence – realism t...: The Scotsman , viewed as a entity, provides an interesting case study for the psychologist – or even a psychiatrist. Its identity depends on...
Tocasaid: This is England Euro 2012
Tocasaid: This is England Euro 2012: With the Euro championships not far off, the official song for Team GB England has been unveiled with a fun loving Chris Kamara bounci...
GOVERNMENT TERRORISM: #Iran War: #AIPAC Resolution Demanding War With Ir...
GOVERNMENT TERRORISM: #Iran War: #AIPAC Resolution Demanding War With Ir...: By M.J. Rosenberg May 14, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- On Tuesday, the House of Representatives is slated to vote on a res...
Munguin's Republic: ANOTHER PILE OF PANTS...
Munguin's Republic: ANOTHER PILE OF PANTS...: A £1.4bn coalition scheme to boost the economy has failed to achieve value for money, according to the government's official auditors. ...
Munguin's Republic: ADVICE TO LONDON GOVERNMENT AND ITS SUPPORTER
Munguin's Republic: ADVICE TO LONDON GOVERNMENT AND ITS SUPPORTER: Stop bragging about giving the pensioners a "record £5.30" a week increase. Let's get it clear, it was the amount you were obliged ...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
fleet street fox: Poli-tics; Greek, meaning 'many leeches'.
fleet street fox: Poli-tics; Greek, meaning 'many leeches'.: FOR reasons only an idiot savant could fathom, everything depends upon Greece. Your mortgage. Your chances of being made redundant. Your l...
SCOT goes POP!: Is it every Scot's patriotic duty to show an inter...
SCOT goes POP!: Is it every Scot's patriotic duty to show an inter...: Intriguing news that UEFA have encouraged Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland to ponder the possibility of a joint bid for Euro 2020...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Bias by headline –The Scotsman and Ruth Wishart
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Bias by headline –The Scotsman and Ruth Wishart: I have commented before many times on the technique of Bias by Headline in newspapers. This is normally used in a news report, where the pa...
fleet street fox: Humans seen from space, part the third.
fleet street fox: Humans seen from space, part the third.: HIGH up in the coldness of space, the alien research station was silent. The control desk in the centre of the viewing deck was a mess, wi...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Tocasaid: When opposites collide: Welsh and Hunt
Tocasaid: When opposites collide: Welsh and Hunt: This caught my eye over on the good ship Bella Caledonia . Watch it. Can you spot the nationalist? Irvine Welsh spells out the probl...
The Magistrate's Blog: Cave Canem
The Magistrate's Blog: Cave Canem: The Sentencing Council has published its new guideline on dangerous dogs. In the druggy subculture of our rougher neighbourhoods a pit bul...
Monday, 14 May 2012
Tocasaid: Are you Mom enough for administration?
Tocasaid: Are you Mom enough for administration?: In the frei market, all animals are equal but some are more equal than others. Equally, as anyone familiar with feeding kids au natural...
The Magistrate's Blog: Foot Down (and The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
The Magistrate's Blog: Foot Down (and The Boy Who Cried Wolf): It looks as if the government is serious about raising the motorway speed limit . As those of us who are regular motorway users well know t...
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Sodium Chorus: Deport Clarkson and Philips to Norway
Sodium Chorus: Deport Clarkson and Philips to Norway: I wish to join the growing chorus of voices in the media calling for the immediate deportation of Melanie Philips, Jeremy Clarkson and other...
Saturday, 12 May 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: Left Hand, Right Hand
The Magistrate's Blog: Left Hand, Right Hand: We had a bit of a gossip at lunchtime today, and a colleague told us about a recent case involving the troubled UK Border Agency that he had...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Shettleston, Baillieston & North East... (Vol VII ...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Shettleston, Baillieston & North East... (Vol VII ...: Journey's end! Having trod through Glasgow, south to north and west to east, we come to the end of our traipse through the electoral land...
Munguin's Republic: WELL, IT TOOK THEM TWO YEARS...
Munguin's Republic: WELL, IT TOOK THEM TWO YEARS...: But, they've done it. Please, please, before they return us to the 1910s, can we be a separate nation with a social conscience and a ca...
SCOT goes POP!: The negligence of Councillor Alex Gallagher : thre...
SCOT goes POP!: The negligence of Councillor Alex Gallagher : thre...: Star blogger "Braveheart" (aka the newly re-elected Labour councillor for North Coast and Cumbraes) continues in his fearless quest to rand...
Friday, 11 May 2012
A Sair Fecht: Conversations With My MP: Willie Bain
A Sair Fecht: Conversations With My MP: Willie Bain: The social media revolution has, in my opinion (never humble), created a number of problems. The first is that many of us can feel the nee...
fleet street fox: Wedlock 'em up.
fleet street fox: Wedlock 'em up.: FINALLY the leader of the Free World has said what most people think - he wants to punish gays for the rest of their lives. They've have h...
Thursday, 10 May 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: De Haut en Bas
The Magistrate's Blog: De Haut en Bas: The far reaching changes to bench structures that were brought in at the turn of the year as a result of budgetary pressures have had a few...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
fleet street fox: Those whom the gods love...
fleet street fox: Those whom the gods love...: IF YOU'RE very lucky you'll die before you get old. It used to be the other way around - that getting old was a piece of good fortune whic...
Munguin's Republic: IT'S NOT ALL BAD NEWS, JUST MOST OF IT...
Munguin's Republic: IT'S NOT ALL BAD NEWS, JUST MOST OF IT...: I n the news today I noticed so many things that make living in Britain today what it is...a pain in the ass . F irst story to catch my ...
A Sair Fecht: The Future's Bright. The Future's Orange.
A Sair Fecht: The Future's Bright. The Future's Orange.: Sensibly, I hope, I've waited for the events of election day to settle a little before having my say. When you're passionately committed to ...
The Magistrate's Blog: An Answer In Search Of A Problem
The Magistrate's Blog: An Answer In Search Of A Problem: Apparently the Queen's Speech will contain new measures to deal with drug driving. As the Defence Brief (link on the right hand side) points...
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
fleet street fox: Bugged out.
fleet street fox: Bugged out.: NO-ONE could fail to be disgusted at news that 17,000 pills containing the remains of dead babies have been found smuggled out of China. ...
Gauging Govan: Why Did The SNP Fail In Glasgow? Mainly Sectariani...
Gauging Govan: Why Did The SNP Fail In Glasgow? Mainly Sectariani...: In Thursday's elections, the SNP was the clear and outright winner. In terms of bottom-line number of councillors, it won. In terms of incr...
Tarff Advertiser: Greece has gone to Iceland
Tarff Advertiser: Greece has gone to Iceland: Stupid, silly little Iceland told the bankers where they could put their 'its a disaster for you unless you bail us out' plan and told the ...
Monday, 7 May 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Science, politics and religion – the growth of irr...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Science, politics and religion – the growth of irr...: ". . . whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that, whenever things get so far wrong as to at...
The Green Benches: Tory donor is a director with the law firm that re...
The Green Benches: Tory donor is a director with the law firm that re...: John James Henry Lewis has given more than £400,000 to the Tory Party. See the accumulated graph of his donations (above). In addition, he ...
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Munguin's Republic: IF THIS IS LOSING... LET'S HAVE MORE OF IT
Munguin's Republic: IF THIS IS LOSING... LET'S HAVE MORE OF IT: Aye.....what a day! Firstly, I'd like to say congratulations to Labour and Johann Lamont. According to a friend of mine in England, who ...
SCOT goes POP!: And more good news : Hollande will be President of...
SCOT goes POP!: And more good news : Hollande will be President of...: It's a curiously paradoxical five-yearly tradition that the French-speaking parts of Switzerland and Belgium demonstrate their apartness fro...
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Scottish local election results - the inquest ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The Scottish local election results - the inquest ...: In business and in consulting and training I was always fascinated by the behaviour of managers when faced with difficulties or failure to a...
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...
Campbell Martin: When you go to the polls....
Campbell Martin: When you go to the polls....: Political parties change with time: some for the better, others not so. The most glaring example of such change is the Labour Party. ...
Alternate Celt's View: Over the line
Alternate Celt's View: Over the line: Is it just me, or has a line been crossed in what is considered acceptable practice in a democratic country? I just looked up at facebook t...
Friday, 4 May 2012
fleet street fox: B.E.N.D.
fleet street fox: B.E.N.D.: FINALLY I can tell you why today is a Big Exciting News Day! (I am squeaking with joy while typing this.) I HAVE A COLUMN! From today...
Munguin's Republic: WRONG HEALTH SERVICE, WRONG COUNTRY
Munguin's Republic: WRONG HEALTH SERVICE, WRONG COUNTRY: This morning I heard on the radio that in England there had been an investigation into prescribing by GPs which had found that a totally u...
SCOT goes POP!: The SNP's victory in numbers
SCOT goes POP!: The SNP's victory in numbers: Many thanks to DougtheDug on the previous thread for clearing up a point that had been bugging me for a few hours. I could distinctly recal...
The Magistrate's Blog: Just One Thing Though Ken......
The Magistrate's Blog: Just One Thing Though Ken......: The MoJ has sent out this encouraging news release about a rehabilitation project that surely deserves to succeed. The Timpson connection p...
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Munguin's Republic: FOR MY ENGLISH FRIENDS...
Munguin's Republic: FOR MY ENGLISH FRIENDS...: Our Man in America, Danny, sent me this... Hilarious.
SNmr: Outside the bubble
SNmr: Outside the bubble: This week, and the furore in Holyrood over Murdoch, has provided some interesting insights into the way the public engages with the politica...
fleet street fox: Argument (n.): Persuasive discourse.
fleet street fox: Argument (n.): Persuasive discourse.: WHEN I was a youngster we used to visit my grandparents for Sunday lunch. We'd have a nice bit of roast lamb, Gran would dish up seconds o...
SNmr: Why antis should go to Iceland
SNmr: Why antis should go to Iceland: The International Monetary Fund has just published its latest statistics for the relative wealth per head of different countries. And, for I...
SCOT goes POP!: Why you should seriously consider using all (or mo...
SCOT goes POP!: Why you should seriously consider using all (or mo...: After I mentioned the other day that I was planning to give the Labour candidate my sixth preference out of six in the local elections, Auld...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Salmond's astonishing naïveté...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Salmond's astonishing naïveté...: Imagine, if you will, that you are a hoary old political warrior. Your cynicism well honed and hide scarred by innumerable past battles,...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Jack McConnell - and his weans - hacked...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Jack McConnell - and his weans - hacked...: A scoop , and a very significant one, for the Daily Record this morning. The Labour-leaning paper exclusively reports what has apparentl...
forfar-loon's brigadoon: Preaching to the unconverted
forfar-loon's brigadoon: Preaching to the unconverted: The thick haar around Brigadoon has prevented me from posting of late, but through the occasional gaps in the mist my faithful carrier pigeo...
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Gauging Govan: Hate-filled Labour xenophobes announce: "Foreigner...
Gauging Govan: Hate-filled Labour xenophobes announce: "Foreigner...: On the weekend Labour plunged the very depths of public discourse, they have shown their true colours. This week, on a Labour website, ac...
fleet street fox: You may say I'm a dreamer.
fleet street fox: You may say I'm a dreamer.: CAN you imagine a politician trying to get elected on the basis he's a killer? What a bizarre campaign poster that would be. 'Vote for me....
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
fleet street fox: What big bills you have.
fleet street fox: What big bills you have.: DO YOU remember 2005? It was the year Dubya won a second term, and Tony Blair a third. The Pope karked it, Hurricane Katrina killed 1,836 ...
A Sair Fecht: In The Footsteps Of Giants
A Sair Fecht: In The Footsteps Of Giants: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ...
A Sair Fecht: In The Footsteps Of Giants
A Sair Fecht: In The Footsteps Of Giants: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ...
Tocasaid: A letter to Johann Lamont
Tocasaid: A letter to Johann Lamont: Dear Ms Lamont, I am writing regarding the recent council tax cuts imposed on the people of Stirling and the employees of Stirling Coun...
The Magistrate's Blog: Pass Me The Long Spoon Dear
The Magistrate's Blog: Pass Me The Long Spoon Dear: I usually feel a bit uneasy when I find myself agreeing with Mail columnist Richard Littlejohn. Yes, he is a right-wing polemicist, and he w...