Sunday, 31 March 2013
Tarff Advertiser: Scotland and the UK - too late and too little from...
Tarff Advertiser: Scotland and the UK - too late and too little from...: Scotland and the UK: state of the union This editorial in the Guardian reeks of a final 'Jam Tomorro...
Friday, 29 March 2013
Tarff Advertiser: New Labour - ever rightward is the Milliband cry.
Tarff Advertiser: New Labour - ever rightward is the Milliband cry.: The neo-liberal right is dead, long live the neo-liberal right ....... The fallacy of this article defending David Milliband as the ...
Peter A Bell: Referendum debate: A mystery to the media?
Peter A Bell: Referendum debate: A mystery to the media?: Scotland's independence referendum Reading the editorial in today's Guardian I was struck by two things. The shallowness of th...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Tarff Advertiser: Cameron Wants Scotland to say 'Yes'?
Tarff Advertiser: Cameron Wants Scotland to say 'Yes'?: After the SNP success in 2007 the then New Labour Government should have seen the writing on the wall. It was clear as they moved ever r...
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Gauging Govan: How to punish pro-criminalisation MSPs and change ...
Gauging Govan: How to punish pro-criminalisation MSPs and change ...: Following an armed police attack on a non-aggressive protest on Saturday, Kenny MacAskill, the Secretary for "Justice", said he w...
SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll : Scots reject No campaign's wish for ...
SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll : Scots reject No campaign's wish for ...: YouGov have released the details of an SNP-commissioned poll that primarily inquired into where people think that key decision-making powers...
Tarff Advertiser: A UK 'Fit for returning heroes'? Beveridge is no m...
Tarff Advertiser: A UK 'Fit for returning heroes'? Beveridge is no m...: Sadly the English electorate are waking up, some decade too late, to the neo-liberal monster that was Blair and is New Labour and their To...
Monday, 25 March 2013
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Man or Myth – a strange article in Radio Times thi...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Man or Myth – a strange article in Radio Times thi...: Radio Times carries a full page article on page 25 headed 'Man or Myth’ by Dr. Fiona Watson of Dundee University in a Q&A format,...
Munguin's Republic: EVEN IN JAPAN THEY KNOW THE TRUTH:
Munguin's Republic: EVEN IN JAPAN THEY KNOW THE TRUTH:: Scots have nothing to lose going the ‘indy’ route BY IAIN ROBERTSON THE JAPAN TIMES GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Yes. The country is f...
SCOT goes POP!: Even the Daily Mail has noticed that Scotland is f...
SCOT goes POP!: Even the Daily Mail has noticed that Scotland is f...: Apologies if this has already been widely mentioned elsewhere, but courtesy of the PB poster Tim I've just spotted the hilarious contras...
SCOT goes POP!: It's a date
SCOT goes POP!: It's a date: So there it is. We'll either remember Thursday, 18th September 2014 as one of the best days of our lives, or...we'll spend a wee wh...
SCOT goes POP!: Panelbase shows yet another swing in favour of ind...
SCOT goes POP!: Panelbase shows yet another swing in favour of ind...: I seem to be saying this quite a lot recently, but the latest poll on independence voting intentions shows a swing to the Yes campaign. Bet...
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Frankly Independent: Help Catalonia
Frankly Independent: Help Catalonia: Appeal (in English) by Alfred Bosch , leader of the pro-independence ERC (Republican Left of Catalonia) in the Spanish parliamen...
Frankly Independent: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
Frankly Independent: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, the leader in Catalonia of the Spanish governing party, the People's Party, ca...
Frankly Independent: Delenda Est Hispania
Frankly Independent: Delenda Est Hispania: The 7th edition of Delenda Est Hispania: Everything that Spain Does Not Want You to Know about Catalan In...
Frankly Independent: Something Is Stirring
Frankly Independent: Something Is Stirring: The 'Free State' of Bavaria If the CDU is in fact, as is suggested in some quarter...
Frankly Independent: Independence in Europe
Frankly Independent: Independence in Europe: Report for the US Justice Department, March 10th 2013 Various Catalan media outlets...
SCOT goes POP!: Further evidence that Scotland is more pro-Europea...
SCOT goes POP!: Further evidence that Scotland is more pro-Europea...: The supplementary questions in today's YouGov poll add to the substantial body of evidence that Scotland is more enthusiastic about memb...
Gauging Govan: Johann's Genocide and the Collapse of Trust in Lab...
Gauging Govan: Johann's Genocide and the Collapse of Trust in Lab...: Johann Lamont voted in favour of Labour's attack on Iraq which killed 120,000 people. She supports the Bedroom Tax, whilst public...
Monday, 18 March 2013
Sunday, 17 March 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Canavan would be your choice for Falkirk
SCOT goes POP!: Canavan would be your choice for Falkirk: Thanks for all your votes in yesterday's poll - by an overwhelming margin you feel that Dennis Canavan, rather than an SNP candidate, sh...
Saturday, 16 March 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Poll : Who should carry the independence banner in...
SCOT goes POP!: Poll : Who should carry the independence banner in...: Without wanting to get into any legally sensitive matters, it seems there is a renewed chance (albeit probably still an outside one) that th...
Friday, 15 March 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Yet another poll shows a swing in favour of indepe...
SCOT goes POP!: Yet another poll shows a swing in favour of indepe...: Cornish sex memoirist, "Thatcherite outlaw" and all-round Brit Nat extraordinaire Sean Thomas (aka "international thriller wr...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
SCOT goes POP!: The Falklands referendum was a massive missed oppo...
SCOT goes POP!: The Falklands referendum was a massive missed oppo...: It's something of a red-letter day when I find myself agreeing with any part of a ranting by Mr Nile Gardiner, director of the 'Marg...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Moridura rides to the rescue of Better Together – ...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Moridura rides to the rescue of Better Together – ...: A June 2011 blog, mostly still relevant, I feel At heart, I am a compassionate man. This is not immediately evident to some, because I am...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Key Facts about the referendum as I see them (Nov....
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Key Facts about the referendum as I see them (Nov....: I am an individual Scottish voter, I have no role within the SNP, and my opinions are my own. I am an SNP supporter but no longer a party...
Monday, 11 March 2013
fleet street fox: Human wrongs.
fleet street fox: Human wrongs.: SEVEN hundred and ninety eight years is a long old time. It's not far off a millennium, it's longer than the Bible says Moses, Isa...
Frankly Independent: Courting Disaster
Frankly Independent: Courting Disaster: The Spanish Constitutional Court " Spain versus Catalonia " is the simple but reve...
Campbell Martin: Why our thoughts should be with the people of Vene...
Campbell Martin: Why our thoughts should be with the people of Vene...: Last Wednesday (March 5), hours before the Venezuelan government announced the death of President Hugo Chavez, the American Enterpris...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Just how many ECHR cases did Britain lose last yea...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Just how many ECHR cases did Britain lose last yea...: In brief supplement to yesterday's post about the Tories' rekindled enthusiasm for denouncing the European Court of Human Rights...
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Lallands Peat Worrier: Better Together for the Rapture & the Last Days!
Lallands Peat Worrier: Better Together for the Rapture & the Last Days!: Mary Fee MSP may not be a household name in Scotland. She may not be a household name in the West of Scotland, which elected her to the ...
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...
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...
Tocasaid: Let's start a war: ten years on
Tocasaid: Let's start a war: ten years on: Hard to believe that it's ten years since 100 000 took to the streets in Glasgow to protest, outside London Labour's conference, ...
SCOT goes POP!: Ashcroft poll : SNP hold clear lead in Lib Dem-hel...
SCOT goes POP!: Ashcroft poll : SNP hold clear lead in Lib Dem-hel...: The latest Ashcroft vanity-fest megapoll is out, and perhaps of most interest to us are the figures for Lib Dem-held seats in Scotland, and...
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Friday, 8 March 2013
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Is Scotland even more anti-Tory that we realised?
SCOT goes POP!: Is Scotland even more anti-Tory that we realised?: YouGov have provided some timely food for thought for those who still delude themselves that the political centre of gravity in Scotland isn...
Sunday, 3 March 2013
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...
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Friday, 1 March 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Moving in the right direction
SCOT goes POP!: Moving in the right direction: My latest article for the International Business Times is now up, on the subject of an encouraging few weeks for the Yes campaign, and how ...