Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Monday, 25 February 2013
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: The Wrong Message
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: The Wrong Message: Creation of a sterling-zone as trumpeted by the SNP is decidedly the wrong message. Scotland needs to dump the pound faster than a drowning ...
Sunday, 24 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: What's an anti-nuclear country to do?
SCOT goes POP!: What's an anti-nuclear country to do?: I gather from a newspaper report today that the UK government has decreed (in its usual self-effacing manner) that an independent Scotland w...
Weegiewarbler's Appendix: Is the Treaty of Union already dead?
Weegiewarbler's Appendix: Is the Treaty of Union already dead?: The Treaty of Union 1707, we live every day of our lives with its effects – but should we? Could we, if we choose, simply denounce it, has...
Alternate Celt's View: Let the people seize the agenda.
Alternate Celt's View: Let the people seize the agenda.: So we're well off the starting blocks and on our way, the campaign has started and it's a mere two years until the referendum. With the No c...
Athfhás: Litir chuig an Fhoras...
Athfhás: Litir chuig an Fhoras...: Is cuimhin liom nuair a bhí mise ag iarraidh Gaeilge a fhoghlaim (agus tá mé fós á fhoghlaim) cé chomh cabhrach is a bhí sé nuachtán Gaeilge...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Nuclear issues – will we reach critical mass in 20...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Nuclear issues – will we reach critical mass in 20...: A reprise, with stuff published before, but updated for recent events, e.g. NATO vote at SNP conference. FACTS – NATO and TRIDENT 1. The...
Saturday, 23 February 2013
Friday, 22 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Comment is free (at least here)
SCOT goes POP!: Comment is free (at least here): I'll start by apologising in advance, because the majority of you won't have a clue what this post is all about. But as a matter of princip...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Will the Tories rebrand themselves as 'Scotland fo...
SCOT goes POP!: Will the Tories rebrand themselves as 'Scotland fo...: I received a glossy No2AV-style purple leaflet the other day from an organisation calling itself 'Scotland for Marriage', and yet curiously...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Yes voters who were born outside Scotland
SCOT goes POP!: Yes voters who were born outside Scotland: I'm not sure if this has been commented upon elsewhere yet, but one feature of last week's Ipsos-Mori poll on independence that struck me a...
Monday, 18 February 2013
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scrooge McDuck votes No...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scrooge McDuck votes No...: Yesterday, we took a look at Angus Reid's most recent poll findings on independence, which showed that just under a third of folk suppor...
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Frankly Independent: The Catalan Coup
Frankly Independent: The Catalan Coup: The Declaration of Catalan Sovereignty, January 23rd 2013 Anyone relying on the anglo-media may be surprise...
Frankly Independent: From Russia with Love
Frankly Independent: From Russia with Love: Summary of main points of interest in a Pravda article dated February 12th 2013 : Th...
Scottish Navy: Options for Faslane and a reminder on nuclear mora...
Scottish Navy: Options for Faslane and a reminder on nuclear mora...: The recent comments of Nick Harvey, the Armed Forces Minister, to MPs on the Commons Scottish Affairs Committee have started to crystallise ...
Scottish Navy: Down to the nitty-gritty - Part 1: Rescue and anti...
Scottish Navy: Down to the nitty-gritty - Part 1: Rescue and anti...: @ScottishNavy Using the “ manifesto ” in the last post as a reference point, a sensible summary of the everyday tasks of Navies and Coas...
A Sair Fecht: And Now, The News Where You Are
A Sair Fecht: And Now, The News Where You Are: Dedicated to Bill. "The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots." A famous line from a famous movie of dubious (to say the leas...
SCOT goes POP!: Creative accountancy on Twitter
SCOT goes POP!: Creative accountancy on Twitter: Spotted on Twitter earlier this morning - Katherine O'Donnell : Comparison with Nov 2012 Ipsos MORI poll suggest Scots keener than the E...
Gauging Govan: Scotland's Place In Europe - and the Euro
Gauging Govan: Scotland's Place In Europe - and the Euro: In 1997, the newly-elected Labour government in the spirit of progressivity and energy which so characterised the early days of post-Tory B...
Gauging Govan: Scottish Labour: Enemies of Equality
Gauging Govan: Scottish Labour: Enemies of Equality: For some time, the Labour Party in Scotland has been tumbling down the helter-skelter of hate, with their arses firmly plonked on the mat o...
Friday, 15 February 2013
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: L’Europa and other matters
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: L’Europa and other matters: EUROPE – UK and SCOTLAND The UK parties fight like ferrets in a sack over Europe - Scottish Labour MPs don't know their gluteus maximi ...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: That Question Time ‘joke’ – an alternative view – ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: That Question Time ‘joke’ – an alternative view – ...: Hits are approaching the 10,000 mark on my QT clip of a couple of days ago. Overwhelmingly, they are critical of the remark, but some, inclu...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
A Sair Fecht: And Now, The News Where You Are
A Sair Fecht: And Now, The News Where You Are: Dedicated to Bill. "The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots." A famous line from a famous movie of dubious (to say the leas...
SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori becomes third pollster this year to sho...
SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori becomes third pollster this year to sho...: Here are the latest Ipsos-Mori findings on independence, which make highly encouraging reading for the Yes campaign - Should Scotland be a...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Monday, 11 February 2013
Tocasaid: Aye right. But who popes up now?
Tocasaid: Aye right. But who popes up now?: The reaction to the Pope's resignation on 'health grounds' will surely be 'aye right' if you're Scottish and cynical. And let's face it w...
SCOT goes POP!: I-I-I-I wouldn't change a thi-ing
SCOT goes POP!: I-I-I-I wouldn't change a thi-ing: From the BBC - Writing before the launch of the Westminster government's document, Mr Cameron pledged that his government would put the "f...
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Lallands Peat Worrier: When to campaign is to choose...
Lallands Peat Worrier: When to campaign is to choose...: "Now that the Tories are back we need a government in Scotland that will fight for what really matters." The immortal opening lines of L...
A Very Public Sociologist: Englishness and Suburbia
A Very Public Sociologist: Englishness and Suburbia: There is a spectre haunting the Union, the spectre of Englishness! I was down in London Monday evening for the launch-cum-discussion of Ru...
Saturday, 9 February 2013
Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SUNDAY... BETTER TOGETHER?
Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SUNDAY... BETTER TOGETHER?: We are better together (well not the ones on the right obviously) No, really, we are better together: we pay, they get the jobs and th...
Munguin's Republic: BARRIER TO INDEPENDENCE? THE PAPERWORK WOULD BE A ...
Munguin's Republic: BARRIER TO INDEPENDENCE? THE PAPERWORK WOULD BE A ...: BUT WHAT CAN YOU DAE? This guy pretty much defies description. I've been pondering over what kind of Liberal Democrat actually t...
Friday, 8 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: The right of Scottish Labour MPs to deny equal mar...
SCOT goes POP!: The right of Scottish Labour MPs to deny equal mar...: A few days ago, someone asked me on PB if I couldn't think of some good points to the constitutional status quo. "There must be something, ...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Monday, 4 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Angus Reid finds 1.5% swing in favour of independe...
SCOT goes POP!: Angus Reid finds 1.5% swing in favour of independe...: The Mail are manfully spinning this for all it's worth (yes, they even use the traditional words "huge setback"!), but I'm afraid facts are...
Friday, 1 February 2013
SCOT goes POP!: What's in a question?
SCOT goes POP!: What's in a question?: It's not often that I spontaneously burst out laughing when I'm travelling alone on a bus, but that's what happened yesterday when I was bro...