Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Tocasaid: Homegrown Horrors for Halloween
Tocasaid: Homegrown Horrors for Halloween: On Oidhche Shamhna - the night before Samhain - the door between 'our' world and the world of the dead was reputed to open, allowing for...
Monday, 29 October 2012
Scottish Navy: Scotland is a maritime nation - how do we look aft...
Scottish Navy: Scotland is a maritime nation - how do we look aft...: @ScottishNavy " Scotland is a maritime nation with more than 11,000 miles of coastline, including nearly 800 islands, critical under-sea ...
Gauging Govan: The Five Stages of Unionism
Gauging Govan: The Five Stages of Unionism: 1. Denial There will never be a referendum on Independence. Not now, not ever. 2. Anger The Government doesn't even have the right to ho...
Frankly: The Impact of Finance on Growth
Frankly: The Impact of Finance on Growth: For the benefit of those who are not reading the French-language version of the Paul Jorion blog ...
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Gauging Govan: Bitter Together - hatred to the core
Gauging Govan: Bitter Together - hatred to the core: It was interesting to see, last week, that the ultra-right wing, anti-Catholic bigots of the Democratic Unionist Party are the latest suppo...
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...
Frankly: Forward
Frankly: Forward: First Minister Alex Salmond Scottish National Party conference, Perth, October 20th 2012 "...
SCOT goes POP!: Why are YouGov so convinced they can "improve" on ...
SCOT goes POP!: Why are YouGov so convinced they can "improve" on ...: I overlooked this YouGov poll on independence the other day, which essentially shows an identical position to the previous poll by the same...
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Poblachd na h-Alba (Scottish Republic): From Independence to a Scottish Socialist Republic...
Poblachd na h-Alba (Scottish Republic): From Independence to a Scottish Socialist Republic...: Hugo Chavez democratically elected socialist President of Venezuela An Independent Scotland has a better chance of adopting not only pol...
Tocasaid: Alternatives to independence?
Tocasaid: Alternatives to independence?: Apart from the crazy notion of standing on your own two feet and doing things in your own way there are many reasons to vote 'NO!...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Uncertainty which cannot be eliminated, certainly ...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Uncertainty which cannot be eliminated, certainly ...: Not black, not white, but mingling motley. If there was one lesson powerfully to emerge from the legal-political debate before the Edinb...
Friday, 26 October 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Salmond: Nixonian, Clintonian, Delboyian...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Salmond: Nixonian, Clintonian, Delboyian...: And in a single bound, free . Well, not quite, but Alex Salmond certainly cleared some much-needed waddle-room for himself at this aftern...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Scottish Navy: John Paul Jones and the birth of a nation
Scottish Navy: John Paul Jones and the birth of a nation: The creation of founding myths based around strong historical figures is nationalist 101. People and stories from the past are used to defin...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Monday, 22 October 2012
Sunday, 21 October 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Panelbase poll : independence within touching dist...
SCOT goes POP!: Panelbase poll : independence within touching dist...: Thanks to Marcia on the previous thread for alerting me to today's Panelbase poll on independence, which is far more encouraging than the re...
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Frankly: Homage from Catalonia
Frankly: Homage from Catalonia: Rt Hon Alex Salmond MSP First Minister of Scotland October 16th 2012 Dear Sir, ...
Friday, 19 October 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scottish Independence: those chancy Ipsos-MORI tre...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scottish Independence: those chancy Ipsos-MORI tre...: A somewhat uncomfortable juxtaposition this, given yesterday's jeremiad against commentary on Scottish independence which obsesses unduly ...
Thursday, 18 October 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: American lessons for Scotland...
Lallands Peat Worrier: American lessons for Scotland...: Looking in on US federal politics is a queer business. I’ve never crossed the Atlantic myself, but have several American friends and acqua...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
SCOT goes POP!: @Admin4TheYoonYoon Tweet-Watch : The Return
SCOT goes POP!: @Admin4TheYoonYoon Tweet-Watch : The Return: It's been far, far too long since we've taken a dip into the exotic waters of the Twitter account of Johann Lamont's former Shadow Minister ...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Blinded by the Westminster prism...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Blinded by the Westminster prism...: On the theme of significant political images , yesterday afforded another telling little scene, courtesy of the BBC's midday Daily Politi...
The Hidden Ireland...: Guards flaunt the law with impunity!
The Hidden Ireland...: Guards flaunt the law with impunity!: “There can be but one conclusion: this important element of the language legislation is now, for all intents and purposes, in crisis:” the C...
Frankly: Annexation
Frankly: Annexation: "It has been the misfortune of our country to have had our records twice destroyed by an English Usurpation, with a de...
Monday, 15 October 2012
ianssmart: Why I got it wrong
ianssmart: Why I got it wrong: Alright, it does appear now more likely than not that there will be a referendum. I am finally forced to make that concession by a single ...
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Edinburgh Agreement: legally, what does it mea...
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Edinburgh Agreement: legally, what does it mea...: In Scotland today, one group of people are lachrymose, their disappointment stinging. This afternoon the Scottish and Westminster govern...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Cameron: a willing actor in Salmond's drama?
Lallands Peat Worrier: Cameron: a willing actor in Salmond's drama?: Just a brief supplementary observation on top of what one reader described as this afternoon's whistle-stop tour through the main implicat...
Sunday, 14 October 2012
The Hidden Ireland...: Adams modestly hits the nail on the head!
The Hidden Ireland...: Adams modestly hits the nail on the head!: A correction to Miriam Lord, a backhanded compliment for Enda Kenny and a short exposition of his philosophy on speaking Irish. The follow...
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Tocasaid: Rutting season
Tocasaid: Rutting season: The Scottish word for October is Dàmhair and describes the time of year when the stags would descend from the mountains and rut in the gl...
SCOT goes POP!: Ten reasons why Scottish independence isn't "point...
SCOT goes POP!: Ten reasons why Scottish independence isn't "point...: Except in fairly extreme circumstances, it's probably a bit silly to call for a boycott of anything. But from a personal point of view, I m...
Friday, 12 October 2012
Thursday, 11 October 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Sing it out, every song is a cry for love
SCOT goes POP!: Sing it out, every song is a cry for love: From the Telegraph 's 'report' on the seemingly imminent resolution of the referendum stand-off - "Mr Cameron told the Conservative Party ...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Monday, 8 October 2012
Frankly: A Secessionist Speaks
Frankly: A Secessionist Speaks: Artur Mas interviewed (in Catalan) on TV3's Àgora programme October 1st 2012 On October 1st the First Minister...
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Frankly: Habitat
Frankly: Habitat: As the great crisis of capitalism undermines the old multi-national so-called nation-states of Eu...
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
WELSH RADICAL REPUBLICAN FRONTLINE.: A WELSH REPUBLICAN REALITY OR JUST 'GREEN PLAID' P...
WELSH RADICAL REPUBLICAN FRONTLINE.: A WELSH REPUBLICAN REALITY OR JUST 'GREEN PLAID' P...: HHHhhmmm!!! Trap perhaps not although I have no problem in declaring as I have already done way back when this was an issue, that both C...
Tocasaid: A menagerie of Tories
Tocasaid: A menagerie of Tories: As collective nouns go, it could be worse. A fossil of Tories? A coffin of Tories? A toley of Tories? A bastard of Tories? Whatever, ba...
Tocasaid: Scottish punk rock: Dùisg!
Tocasaid: Scottish punk rock: Dùisg!: Compared to the Basque Country or even our Celtic cousins in Cymru, Scotland has a paucity of bands composing new material in her own la...
Monday, 1 October 2012
Scotland Says Yes: Toxic words from Tom Greatrex, the Pearly King of ...
Scotland Says Yes: Toxic words from Tom Greatrex, the Pearly King of ...: How many thousands of jobs might an Independent Scotland create by not investing in Nuclear by renewables, education and health?
SCOT goes POP!: European Ryder Cup team puts Team GB to shame : th...
SCOT goes POP!: European Ryder Cup team puts Team GB to shame : th...: What a joy the last three days have been. Unfortunately I only managed to catch the occasional bit of Andy Murray's charge towards the US O...
A Sair Fecht: Inside Salmond's Mind: It's Obvious
A Sair Fecht: Inside Salmond's Mind: It's Obvious: We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. (George Orwell) It is, perhaps, a ...
Labour For Independence: An Apology of Sorts
Labour For Independence: An Apology of Sorts: " I get why your angry, I'm angry too" Earlier this week I posted my rebuttal to Johann Lamonts big new policy speech. I have to be th...