Monday, 31 December 2012
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Independence Quotation of the Day...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Independence Quotation of the Day...: I'm an honours list grinch. I imagine a good few of you are too, and survey the bi-annual dishing out of damehoods and ennobling shoulde...
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Frankly: Lehendakari Urkullu
Frankly: Lehendakari Urkullu: The swearing in of the new First Minister of the Basque Country , Iñigo Urkullu, leader of the Basque Natio...
Frankly: Christenmass
Frankly: Christenmass: First Minister Alex Salmond's 2012 Christmas message The Bible's Christmas Message ...
Friday, 28 December 2012
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Monday, 24 December 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: 2012 in review: We Were Warned...
Lallands Peat Worrier: 2012 in review: We Were Warned...: Holly berries, little ruby bursts. Robin redbreasts frozen to branches. The White Witch abroad. It may be more of a case of in the dreich...
SCOT goes POP!: The imperial delusion lives on
SCOT goes POP!: The imperial delusion lives on: The SNP's Angus MacNeil and Labour's George Foulkes found some rare common ground a few days ago in condemning the Queen's 'silent' particip...
Sunday, 23 December 2012
Friday, 21 December 2012
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Scottish Vision: Independence, Nationalism & Internationalism
Scottish Vision: Independence, Nationalism & Internationalism: A few weeks ago I had a conversation with my boss about how the concept of nationalism reconciles itself with the idea of solidarity. His...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
fleet street fox: Setting the world to rights.
fleet street fox: Setting the world to rights.: THE Queen attended a Cabinet meeting today, and promptly dissolved the Government. Her Majesty announced a return to an absolute monarchy ...
Frankly: The Beauty of Dreams
Frankly: The Beauty of Dreams: The newly re-elected Presiding Officer of the Catalan Parliament, Núria de Gispert, sets the scene for an ...
Monday, 17 December 2012
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Friday, 14 December 2012
Thursday, 13 December 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Why the Northern Ireland demographic shift does ma...
SCOT goes POP!: Why the Northern Ireland demographic shift does ma...: Ten years ago, the results of the Northern Ireland census were greeted with a not inconsiderable amount of unionist gloating. All the expec...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: David Miliband - Iraq War supporter and enemy of ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: David Miliband - Iraq War supporter and enemy of ...: The recent Danish political dram Borgen, a fine example of Scandinavian noir, was followed avidly by many Scottish viewers, notably the po...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland, the EU – and Barroso …
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland, the EU – and Barroso …: Scotland's independence will create a situation for which there is no real precedent, and no clarity or certainty in European law or EU hist...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
ianssmart: Some thoughts on Nicola's speech.
ianssmart: Some thoughts on Nicola's speech.: Every so often, somebody makes a serious "State of the Nation" speech and Nicola Sturgeon did so yesterday . There was bit of "lucky whi...
Sunday, 9 December 2012
The Scottish Aeneas: Edinburgh's Theatre Royal in the Georgian period
The Scottish Aeneas: Edinburgh's Theatre Royal in the Georgian period: Eighteenth century Edinburgh was late in welcoming the theatre, considering its worldwide reputation even then as a centre for learning and ...
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Frankly: 2013?
Frankly: 2013?: The ERC Wants the Catalan Independence Referendum to Be Held in September 2013 VilaWeb, November 29th 2012 ...
Frankly: Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters
Frankly: Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: On December 5th a report was published by Aberdeen University confirming the "substantial remaining ...
Gauging Govan: Better Together's Tory Gold for Activists
Gauging Govan: Better Together's Tory Gold for Activists: The anti-independence "Better Together" campaign, an alliance of Labour, the British Government, the BNP and the Orange Order, have struggl...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Gauging Govan: Who Are The Antis?
Gauging Govan: Who Are The Antis?: In the battle for Scotland to revert to its normal state, and join the nations of the world, it appears to be generally accepted that the el...
Frankly: St Andrew's Day
Frankly: St Andrew's Day: Blair Jenkins , chief executive of Yes Scotland , delivers a Saint Andrew's Day message,...
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Open questions
SCOT goes POP!: Open questions: Leaving aside the obvious jibe that 'Open Unionism' is a contradiction in terms, my eye was caught by this article of the 'anyone to the le...
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Our Head of State for 2060 has just been selected....
SCOT goes POP!: Our Head of State for 2060 has just been selected....: We don't have a clue about his or her personality, talents or intelligence, but we're absolutely certain that he/she will be just the chap/c...
Monday, 3 December 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with m...
Lallands Peat Worrier: "My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with m...: I confess, Nicola Sturgeon has never before struck me as a likely devotee of Thomas Stearns Eliot, but I'm always happy to be surprised. ...
Saturday, 1 December 2012
Friday, 30 November 2012
Tocasaid: A Song or Three for St Andrew's Day
Tocasaid: A Song or Three for St Andrew's Day: In two years, this day could be fkn huge. The mother of all independence days. In the meantime, pour yourself a Laphroaig and sing along....
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Tocasaid: Bollocks to the Stones - the alternatives...
Tocasaid: Bollocks to the Stones - the alternatives...: Tired of the meeja coverage of Mick Jagger shaking his wrinkles with his fellow lovers of under-age lovers ? As someone who was old enoug...
NEW Irelander: New Priests, Same Old Message
NEW Irelander: New Priests, Same Old Message: You know, there are still Catholics in Ireland. In fact, in the past two weeks four young men have been ordained into the church. This is w...
NEW Irelander: Monarchy in a New Ireland
NEW Irelander: Monarchy in a New Ireland: Éire, the Irish Republic, is ninety years young as of this December; the declaration of independence from the United Kingdom was ratified by...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Leith Notes: A rebirth of Scottish Radicalism?
Leith Notes: A rebirth of Scottish Radicalism?: On the 24th November 2012 the inaugural ' Radical Independence Conference ' was held in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Glasgow. It brought tog...
Sunday, 25 November 2012
Saturday, 24 November 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Ashcroft poll : SNP lead in Westminster voting int...
SCOT goes POP!: Ashcroft poll : SNP lead in Westminster voting int...: The Tories' billionaire puppet-master Lord Ashcroft recently conducted a UK-wide mega-poll of Westminster voting intention, with a sample si...
Frankly: The Right to Decide
Frankly: The Right to Decide: The Leader of the Catalan Governing Party Challenges the Catalan Socialists and the Spanish Governing Party to Defend T...
Frankly: Rallying Call
Frankly: Rallying Call: First Minister Artur Mas on the final day of the Catalan general-election campaign Yesterda...
Friday, 23 November 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scottish Labour's Samson strategy?
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scottish Labour's Samson strategy?: Back in 2011, a waggish nationalist friend half-seriously suggested that, failing everything else, Scottish Labour's best strategy to def...
SCOT goes POP!: Special appeal : Scots Wikipedia contributors need...
SCOT goes POP!: Special appeal : Scots Wikipedia contributors need...: I've just found myself writing a rather impatient email reply to someone whose heart is in the right place, but who I think is lashing out i...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Monday, 19 November 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Clinton doesn't just oppose "separatism" - he oppo...
SCOT goes POP!: Clinton doesn't just oppose "separatism" - he oppo...: Our old friend Duncan Hothersall was full of beans yesterday about the supposed 'endorsement' of the No campaign by Bill Clinton. In truth,...
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Gauging Govan: Our Responsibility For Israel's War Crimes
Gauging Govan: Our Responsibility For Israel's War Crimes: Today, the fourth strongest military power in the world is launching air, sea and rocket attacks on refugees it has launched on a ghetto de...
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...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
SCOT goes POP!: It's been a while...
SCOT goes POP!: It's been a while...: There was a time (in 2009, I think) when this blog was primarily a round-up of Scottish subsamples from UK opinion polls of Westminster voti...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Monday, 12 November 2012
Frankly: Behind the Screen
Frankly: Behind the Screen: Confining myself more or less to merely observing the overdue exposure of the 'unacceptable jou...
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Friday, 9 November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: "Our job is to link the individual issues to the c...
Lallands Peat Worrier: "Our job is to link the individual issues to the c...: Imagine an election hustings, held somewhere in Scotland in early 2011. As you would expect, the political panel was filled out primarily...
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
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: Historic Resolution
Frankly: Historic Resolution: Above is a facsimile of the original resolution on American independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July ...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Monday, 5 November 2012
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
Thursday, 1 November 2012
SNmr: 20 years out of date?
SNmr: 20 years out of date?: I've been busy in recent weeks getting the first piece of written work for my PhD finished. It is now in, I've caught up with my sleep and s...
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...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Tocasaid: Johann Lamont - a woman of many faeces
Tocasaid: Johann Lamont - a woman of many faeces: In the past, the Iron Lady of Scottish politics has perhaps been unfairly treated. Say, portrayed as a sad auld jakie whose days of yo...
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Gauging Govan: Lamont's Scotland
Gauging Govan: Lamont's Scotland: It's November 2016. With the independence referendum lost, Scotland languishes under a Conservative government with no Scottish MPs. J...
Friday, 28 September 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Would-be hostage-takers demand "input" on whether ...
SCOT goes POP!: Would-be hostage-takers demand "input" on whether ...: My calendar seems to have gone seriously awry this year. I could have sworn it was September 26th, not April 1st ... "People with an Ulst...
Tocasaid: Numbers
Tocasaid: Numbers: No, not the book of the Old Testament much favoured by many latter-day cherry picking Christians, but the number of people who took to t...
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Monday, 24 September 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: A hanged man's lesson for Holyrood...
Lallands Peat Worrier: A hanged man's lesson for Holyrood...: In his Sunday Herald column this morning, Ian Bell takes blasphemy for his theme, dipping into the Scottish history books to recount th...
Saturday, 22 September 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Why my sympathy for Kate over the topless photos i...
SCOT goes POP!: Why my sympathy for Kate over the topless photos i...: I suppose I can see as a matter of principle that it's objectionable to furtively photograph a woman with a telephoto lens while she is sunb...
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Monday, 17 September 2012
SCOT goes POP!: In photos : Scotland reclaims Andy Murray
SCOT goes POP!: In photos : Scotland reclaims Andy Murray: Apologies for the shameless 'politicisation of sport' title, but as the saying goes, what goes around comes around. So Andy Murray is "Brit...
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Saturday, 15 September 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: A boo-er's defence of devolution...
Lallands Peat Worrier: A boo-er's defence of devolution...: On the purely hypothetical subject of booing , and the irreverent heckling of Scottish public figures by crowds, don't lets forget what Wal...
SCOT goes POP!: The West Iberian tragedy
SCOT goes POP!: The West Iberian tragedy: I'm just back from my first-ever trip to "Portugal". I don't think I've ever been so moved by a visit to any "country". As I was travellin...
Friday, 14 September 2012
Monday, 10 September 2012
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Munguin's Republic: THEY ARE ALL EVEN MORE UNPOPULAR HERE THAN THEY AR...
Munguin's Republic: THEY ARE ALL EVEN MORE UNPOPULAR HERE THAN THEY AR...: Our regular reader, Arbroath1314 pointed out this gem which I felt deserved a slightly higher prominence than where it was as comment 22 on ...
Saturday, 8 September 2012
Help Catalonia: For Democracy in Southern Europe
Help Catalonia: For Democracy in Southern Europe: Josep Huguet Biosca, former Minister of the Government of Catalonia (2004-2010). President of the Irla Foundation. Industrial enginee...
Friday, 7 September 2012
SNmr: They come bearing half-truths
SNmr: They come bearing half-truths: The CBI Director-General, John Cridland, has come north to tell Scotland we shouldn't be independent. He has every right to do so. But wh...
Thursday, 6 September 2012
fleet street fox: A crying shame.
fleet street fox: A crying shame.: THIRTEEN years ago a country which had 4million or so children living in poverty announced it would do something about it. Their leaders, ...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Frankly: Not Waving but Choking
Frankly: Not Waving but Choking: The Catalan National Day Demo, September 11th 2012 Why is the grand old man of Cata...
Monday, 3 September 2012
Sunday, 2 September 2012
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The SNP and NATO – the argument in detail
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: The SNP and NATO – the argument in detail: On Sunday, I set out the basic SNP argument for the proposed NATO U-turn, and offered a basic classification of the elements of that argume...
Friday, 31 August 2012
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
SCOT goes POP!: A few thoughts on the forthcoming Quebec election
SCOT goes POP!: A few thoughts on the forthcoming Quebec election: Quebec goes to the polls in a few days' time, in a provincial election which could in theory set in train a sequence of events leading to a ...
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
SCOT goes POP!: Lib Dems on supporting their own votes-at-16 polic...
SCOT goes POP!: Lib Dems on supporting their own votes-at-16 polic...: The Liberal Democrats' support for votes at 16 is remarkably similar to their legendary "100 years of support for Home Rule" - they're terri...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Women and Alex Salmond: An academic postscript...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Women and Alex Salmond: An academic postscript...: Last week , I took a skeptical look at the received wisdom, echoed most recently by the Economist magazine, that women in Scotland aren'...
Monday, 27 August 2012
Sunday, 26 August 2012
SCOT goes POP!: How might the different referendum permutations im...
SCOT goes POP!: How might the different referendum permutations im...: I'm in a bit of a rush, so just a very quick note to let you know that I've got a guest article at Political Betting today, on how the inde...
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Unpolitical: the SNP's pied Lord Advocate...
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Unpolitical: the SNP's pied Lord Advocate...: Cast your mind back through the Stygian fug of time, to the spring of 2007. The SNP had, by the narrowest of margins, displaced the Labo...
Friday, 24 August 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Why don’t BetterTogether and the UK want a second ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Why don’t BetterTogether and the UK want a second ...: I felt this comment and reply warranted being pulled out on to the main blog page DougtheDug Sunday, August 19th 2012 I find that ther...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A cry of frustration about process–and my reply
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: A cry of frustration about process–and my reply: COMMENT Barontorc Tuesday, August 21, 2012 Am I just becoming exasperated or what? Tell me who controls the REFERENDUM? What has it...
fleet street fox: The perks and perils...
fleet street fox: The perks and perils...: ... of life in the spotlight are the topic of today's column for the Daily Mirror, which you can read here . Enjoy the weekend - and keep ...
Thursday, 23 August 2012
The Magistrates' Blog: Here We Go (1)
The Magistrates' Blog: Here We Go (1): There has been a considerable furore over the recent 'guidance' issued about blogging by Judicial Office Holders. Many people think that the...
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Monday, 20 August 2012
Sunday, 19 August 2012
Frankly: "On Equal Terms"
Frankly: "On Equal Terms": A copy of the Scotland Act 1998 dedicated to Donald Dewar by Tony Blair : "Scotland and England together on equal terms!...
Frankly: The Scolympians
Frankly: The Scolympians: Agence Bretagne Presse, August 16th 2012 Click here to access the remainder of the above article (in French). ...
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Lallands Peat Worrier: Misleading anti-Nationalist invective, Vol. 56...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Misleading anti-Nationalist invective, Vol. 56...: Someone’s been nibbling the bitter almonds. In the Telegraph this morning, BBC lawyer Alistair Bonnington has written an extraordinary g...
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Munguin's Republic: REPOSTED (AT HIS REQUEST) FROM CRAIG MURRAY'S BLOG...
Munguin's Republic: REPOSTED (AT HIS REQUEST) FROM CRAIG MURRAY'S BLOG...: I returned to the UK today to be astonished by private confirmation from within the FCO that the UK government has indeed decided - after ...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Words that inspire a nation … update for NATO
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Words that inspire a nation … update for NATO: I first put this piece up about a year ago. It seems it needs updating - THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – SCOTTISH VERSION When in the ...
Monday, 13 August 2012
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland in NATO - the core arguments against
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland in NATO - the core arguments against: 1. NATO is a nuclear organisation, committed to the possession and first-strike use of Trident nuclear missiles. 2. NATO is comprised of 2...
Saturday, 11 August 2012
Friday, 10 August 2012
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland’s soul – as perceived in 2009 –before the...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: Scotland’s soul – as perceived in 2009 –before the...: Scotland's soul - before devo-max ideas, before consultants got a hold of it, before 'Britishness', before the NATO U-turn , before the remo...
Thursday, 9 August 2012
The Magistrate's Blog: Reflection
The Magistrate's Blog: Reflection: Guidance has just been issued by the senior judiciary which specifically refers to blogging. For reasons that are obvious I shall read the d...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: SNP party supporters and the NATO question – the c...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2012: SNP party supporters and the NATO question – the c...: One recent comment perhaps sums up the nature of the opposition to my arguments against NATO membership and the SNP’s handling of it. “Pet...
Tocasaid: The Labour Olympics
Tocasaid: The Labour Olympics: For it is true. While Boris, Nick and Dave from the Condems may be taking the limelight and pressing the flesh in their red, white and bl...
Wednesday, 8 August 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...