Thursday, 31 October 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : Some jokes are truly timeles...
SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : Some jokes are truly timeles...: "George Robertson says that a semi-detached Scots Parliament will 'kill dead the rump separatist desire'. Ho, ho, ho." ...
Tarff Advertiser: Then they came for me ....
Tarff Advertiser: Then they came for me ....: Time to think carefully about what sort of country you wish to live in and what the UK really means: DWP figures - 10,600 people died with...
Alba Matters: Feder ye spikkin' aboot?
Alba Matters: Feder ye spikkin' aboot?: Feder... Fit are... Geddit? Yeah, anyway, this isn't about Roger Federer (in case you got confused), it's about the Lib Dems and t...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : VISITING THE PARLIAMENT OF GALICIA // VISITANDO O ...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : VISITING THE PARLIAMENT OF GALICIA // VISITANDO O ...: Today my lovely Scottish family and I visited the Galician Parliament. We followed the debate (Question time to the President) and e...
Tocasaid: Hugh Reilly. Bigot.
Tocasaid: Hugh Reilly. Bigot.: Hugh Reilly is an everyman. Particularly, he's an auldman. While women may become crabbit with age, many men unfortunately morph i...
Edinburgh Pentlands CLP: Better Together Edinburgh - Juniper Green
Edinburgh Pentlands CLP: Better Together Edinburgh - Juniper Green: Several members of the Edinburgh Pentlands CLP joined Better Together activists at the Juniper Green Farmers' Market on Saturday....
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Independence, Grangemouth – and facing economic re...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Independence, Grangemouth – and facing economic re...: Grangemouth – and I mean the town, not just the plant – is saved. Can anyone not celebrate that? The answer unfortunately is yes – there ar...
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...
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...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Monday, 28 October 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Boost for pro-independence campaign in new Panelba...
SCOT goes POP!: Boost for pro-independence campaign in new Panelba...: I'm delighted to see that RevStu has included a straight voting intention question in the latest Wings over Scotland poll , partly beca...
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Munguin's Republic: IS THAT SMOKE I SEE FROM Ms LAMONT'S TROUSERS
Munguin's Republic: IS THAT SMOKE I SEE FROM Ms LAMONT'S TROUSERS: Johann Lamont made an appearance on The Sunday Politics Scotland show today, in which she denied ever using the phrase "something f...
Saturday, 26 October 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Dunfermline result provides further evidence that ...
SCOT goes POP!: Dunfermline result provides further evidence that ...: In the immortal words of Peter Snow (possibly modified slightly by Rory Bremner) - "It's just a bit of fun, that's all it is!&q...
Friday, 25 October 2013
Gauging Govan: Grangemouth Crisis Shows Need for Independence and...
Gauging Govan: Grangemouth Crisis Shows Need for Independence and...: The closure of the petrochemical plant at Grangemouth has led directly to the loss of eight hundred jobs and put at risk not only a further...
Tarff Advertiser: Thanks for the memories ...
Tarff Advertiser: Thanks for the memories ...: It is 02:45. I took my sleeping pills and painkillers at 23:00 went to bed at 23:45 and have tossed and turned ever since. The problem wi...
Logic's Rock: We Don't Need no Revolution.
Logic's Rock: We Don't Need no Revolution.: I couldn't count myself as Russell Brand's greatest fan, but he obviously has a passion for popular sovereignty. We in Scot...
Tarff Advertiser: The United Kingdom of London
Tarff Advertiser: The United Kingdom of London: I saw an interesting graph yesterday showing wholesale gas prices are not much, if any, higher than a year ...
Thursday, 24 October 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : YES SCOTLAND CALLING: INFORMING ALL SCOTLAND // IN...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : YES SCOTLAND CALLING: INFORMING ALL SCOTLAND // IN...: Blair Jenkins interview published today in Sermos Galiza Blair is the Chief Executive of Yes Scotland Entrevista a Blair Jenkins pu...
SCOT goes POP!: "The Scottish Government must do everything! No, ...
SCOT goes POP!: "The Scottish Government must do everything! No, ...: I had to rush off urgently at 6.30pm, which unfortunately meant I had to abandon a highly entertaining - if also slightly depressing - Twitt...
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NON Á LOMCE - 24 DE OUTUBRO: FOLGA! STRIKE!
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NON Á LOMCE - 24 DE OUTUBRO: FOLGA! STRIKE!: FOLGA! Eu tamén me sumo! Por unha ensinanza universal, pública e de calidade Xa está ben de recortar en educación e en democracia !...
SCOT goes POP!: The Civil Service's potted guide on how to be bias...
SCOT goes POP!: The Civil Service's potted guide on how to be bias...: I'm indebted to Stuart Dickson for pointing me in the direction of something rather extraordinary. The website for the Civil Service Fa...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Is the Labour campaign in Dunfermline about to cla...
SCOT goes POP!: Is the Labour campaign in Dunfermline about to cla...: I know there has been a degree of disquiet about Labour's campaign leaflet in the Dunfermline by-election, in which the party uses logic...
Monday, 21 October 2013
The Real McGowan: Living Wage Victory
The Real McGowan: Living Wage Victory: Sturgeon: We intend to make decent pay the norm, not the exception. Friday saw Scotland’s Deputy First Minister announce at the SNP conf...
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Richie Venton Scottish Socialist Party: GRANGEMOUTH SHOWDOWN: defend workers' rights from ...
Richie Venton Scottish Socialist Party: GRANGEMOUTH SHOWDOWN: defend workers' rights from ...: A very important Demo has been called this Sunday 20th October at 12noon at Gate 4, (Bo'ness Road) of the INEOS plant in Grangemouth. ...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Lamont's tale of sound and fury
Lallands Peat Worrier: Lamont's tale of sound and fury: Seeing as it is the SNP conference weekend, a modest partisan gloat. Since taking over the good ship Scottish Labour after Iain Gray's...
SCOT goes POP!: Is it just me, or...
SCOT goes POP!: Is it just me, or...: There are some things that anti-independence campaigners say (and it seems to happen more and more as time goes on) that have such obvious h...
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Land Destroyer: EXPOSED: Syrian Human Rights Front is EU-Funded Fr...
Land Destroyer: EXPOSED: Syrian Human Rights Front is EU-Funded Fr...: NYT admits fraudulent Syrian human rights group is UK-based "one-man band" funded by EU and one other "European country.&quo...
Friday, 18 October 2013
Munguin's Republic: DIDN'T BLUNDER PATERSON DO WELL?
Munguin's Republic: DIDN'T BLUNDER PATERSON DO WELL?: We all know how intensely satisfying it is when yet another English Tory blunders into Edinburgh to tell us how completely useless we are an...
Munguin's Republic: BETTER TOGETHER...WITH THIS LOT... WHAT???
Munguin's Republic: BETTER TOGETHER...WITH THIS LOT... WHAT???: Heartbreaking stories... ...Reminiscent of the 1800s While this sort of scumbag looks down from on high Lord Ponse Makes you p...
Mareni Politics: “The Energy Market Needs to be Nationalised.”
Mareni Politics: “The Energy Market Needs to be Nationalised.”: “ The Energy Market Needs to be Nationalised.” I bet that I wasn’t the only person who said, ‘Nationalise the Feckers’, when the new...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : SPANISH MEDIA: ARTICLE PUBLISHED TODAY #INDYREF #...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : SPANISH MEDIA: ARTICLE PUBLISHED TODAY #INDYREF #...: Article published today in "El Mundo" : SNP National Conference and Scottish independence . Artigo publicado hoxe por "El...
Thursday, 17 October 2013
The Calum Maclean Project: Clach na h-Aidhrinn / The Mass Stone
The Calum Maclean Project: Clach na h-Aidhrinn / The Mass Stone: During the winter of 1951 Calum Maclean visited Bohuntine, Glenroy to collect material from Donald MacDonald, then a retired soldier aged...
The Calum Maclean Project: Rob Roy MacGregor
The Calum Maclean Project: Rob Roy MacGregor: One of the perennial heroes of the Highlands is, of course, Rob Roy MacGregor, whose colourful life and exploits have inspired not a few no...
The Calum Maclean Project: George Buchanan and the King
The Calum Maclean Project: George Buchanan and the King: An interesting character who appears sporadically in some of John MacDonald's tales is George Buchanan (1506–1582), the sixteenth cen...
The Calum Maclean Project: Alasdair Crotach MacLeod and Cameron of Lochiel’s ...
The Calum Maclean Project: Alasdair Crotach MacLeod and Cameron of Lochiel’s ...: Many of the items recorded by Calum Maclean from John MacDonald of Highbridge were historical legends or anecdotes. Such tales contain mo...
The Calum Maclean Project: The Seal Folk: Clann ’icCodrum nan Ròn
The Calum Maclean Project: The Seal Folk: Clann ’icCodrum nan Ròn: The following legendary story was recorded from Angus Barrach MacMillan , one of Calum Maclean’s most accomplished storytellers, on the 1...
Logic's Rock: £25,000 Internet Fraud. Lord Robertson Presses Cha...
Logic's Rock: £25,000 Internet Fraud. Lord Robertson Presses Cha...: It's only been running since yesterday, but already nearly 30 Scots have allegedly been fleeced of almost £1,300 according to Lord Robe...
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Unpolitical Lord Advocate (Vol. 2)
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Unpolitical Lord Advocate (Vol. 2): It became easy to forget, when the SNP were first elected in 2007, that they entered government with no experience whatever of rule. For...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scotland: A Crowned Republic
Lallands Peat Worrier: Scotland: A Crowned Republic: After the Union of the Crowns in 1603, the Scottish Court having decamped south to govern Britain from the banks of the Thames, King Jame...
Brown Moses Blog: Hizballah Executing Syrian Prisoners? - Analyzing ...
Brown Moses Blog: Hizballah Executing Syrian Prisoners? - Analyzing ...: A guest post by Phillip Smyth of Jihadology.net . Videos and images should be considered graphic. Uploaded onto YouTube on October 8,...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
SCOT goes POP!: UK government keeping it unreal
SCOT goes POP!: UK government keeping it unreal: From the BBC yesterday - "The new Scottish Secretary reckoned David Cameron should not take part in TV debates about the 2014 referen...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
THE SCOTS VIEW: ATLANTIC EXPLORATION HERALDS NEW OIL FRONTIER FOR ...
THE SCOTS VIEW: ATLANTIC EXPLORATION HERALDS NEW OIL FRONTIER FOR ...: SCOTLAND HAS OIL RESERVES APLENTY OFF THE WEST COAST By Martin Black The focus of Scotland's oil and gas industry moved this mo...
Peter A Bell: Looking behind the polls
Peter A Bell: Looking behind the polls: I don't often comment on polls. I find it a bit of a pointless exercise. Such comments as I see on independence referendum-related po...
The Lockerbie Case: London link to Pan Am bomb
The Lockerbie Case: London link to Pan Am bomb: [This is the headline over a report by Greg Christison in the Scottish edition of today’s Sunday Express (page 14) . It does not feature on...
The Lockerbie Case: Jim Swire's response to Crown Office attack on his...
The Lockerbie Case: Jim Swire's response to Crown Office attack on his...: [What follows is the text of a letter submitted to The Times by Dr Jim Swire, but not selected for publication, following a report in tha...
Monday, 14 October 2013
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Alistair Carmichael fumbles and blusters on what h...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Alistair Carmichael fumbles and blusters on what h...: Alexander Morrison "Alistair" Carmichael , the new ‘Scottish’ Secretary opens by criticising the YES Campaign for "lack of d...
Munguin's Republic: PROJECT FEAR HAS NOTHING ON THIS PILE OF LIES FROM...
Munguin's Republic: PROJECT FEAR HAS NOTHING ON THIS PILE OF LIES FROM...: The MoD report on Independence (compiled using taxpayers’ money) has come out with some real trash. Here are just a few points from it. ...
Munguin's Republic: THINGS ON THURSDAY
Munguin's Republic: THINGS ON THURSDAY: Like any of us would be alive by the time it gets to the border! This is the flag that revolts Mark Smith (the guy who is impressed wi...
Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SUNDAY
Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SUNDAY: Lord Robertson's notes? Lordy, Lordy, another of these scroungers who, had he managed to work a flanker like that and been unempl...
Munguin's Republic: DECISION TIME ON ROYAL MAIL FOR JOHANN
Munguin's Republic: DECISION TIME ON ROYAL MAIL FOR JOHANN: Poor old Johann Lamont! After her embarrassing display of low end political behaviour in parliament and her deputy Anas Sarwar being shoute...
THE SCOTS VIEW: ATLANTIC EXPLORATION HERALDS NEW OIL FRONTIER FOR ...
THE SCOTS VIEW: ATLANTIC EXPLORATION HERALDS NEW OIL FRONTIER FOR ...: SCOTLAND HAS OIL RESERVES APLENTY OFF THE WEST COAST By Martin Black The focus of Scotland's oil and gas industry moved this mo...
Sunday, 13 October 2013
SCOT goes POP!: Something else you can do to help
SCOT goes POP!: Something else you can do to help: I gave a mention the other day to one fundraising campaign that only has a short time left to run , so I might as well also give a plug to a...
Saturday, 12 October 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...: Unha das datas mais importantes da nosa cultura ancestral é a noite de Samain/Samhain/Halloween onde se rende culto a tod@s aqueles que x...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...: Unha das datas mais importantes da nosa cultura ancestral é a noite de Samain/Samhain/Halloween onde se rende culto a tod@s aqueles que x...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...: Unha das datas mais importantes da nosa cultura ancestral é a noite de Samain/Samhain/Halloween onde se rende culto a tod@s aqueles que x...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : NOITE DE SAMAIN-HALLOWEEN // SAMHAIN-HALLOWEEN NI...: Unha das datas mais importantes da nosa cultura ancestral é a noite de Samain/Samhain/Halloween onde se rende culto a tod@s aqueles que x...
SCOT goes POP!: TNS-BMRB poll shows swing in favour of independenc...
SCOT goes POP!: TNS-BMRB poll shows swing in favour of independenc...: Some very welcome news on the referendum front today - the latest TNS-BMRB poll has shown the No campaign's lead dropping by 3%, the equ...
SCOT goes POP!: Are Labour now standing candidates on behalf of th...
SCOT goes POP!: Are Labour now standing candidates on behalf of th...: It's long been obvious that the Tory/Lib Dem government are desperate for Labour people to speak on their behalf in the referendum campa...
SCOT goes POP!: The Enemy of the Empire and The Thistle of Fear
SCOT goes POP!: The Enemy of the Empire and The Thistle of Fear: I don't know how rare it is to be both an SNP supporter and a lifelong Doctor Who fan, but as one such person I felt it was my public d...
Gauging Govan: Govan By-election Humiliation for SNP Necessitates...
Gauging Govan: Govan By-election Humiliation for SNP Necessitates...: The Govan by-election, brought about by the sad death of Allison Hunter, reached its inevitable conclusion early this morning, un-noticed b...
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: European Union or European Court of Human Rights -...
Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: European Union or European Court of Human Rights -...: This week I had a Twitter chat with an independence supporter which began following my posting of a link to the recent executions in Saudi A...
Lallands Peat Worrier: Tory Human Rights Trolling Vol. 145
Lallands Peat Worrier: Tory Human Rights Trolling Vol. 145: How's this for a Union dividend? If David Cameron's government secures re-election, the Human Rights Act is for the chop, as is Bri...
Friday, 11 October 2013
Campbell Martin: Scottish independence and the English working clas...
Campbell Martin: Scottish independence and the English working clas...: In 2006 Tony Benn said, “The Labour Party has never been a socialist party, but it's always had socialists in it, just as there are...
Logic's Rock: The Fear Factor Episode 6 of 6: Attack of the Cybe...
Logic's Rock: The Fear Factor Episode 6 of 6: Attack of the Cybe...: Well, here it is folks, the thrilling season finale of The Fear Factor: Attack of the Cybernats, featuring the story which kicked off this b...
SCOT goes POP!: What will you spend your money on today?
SCOT goes POP!: What will you spend your money on today?: I was contacted last night by the Jimmy Reid Foundation, who asked me to give a mention to the fundraising drive for their Common Weal proj...
Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Power In Community: 100 Citizens Stand Up
Power In Community: 100 Citizens Stand Up: Sustain the grassroots campaign! Be an active citizen. St Mungo : &5.00 GBP - monthly Bishop Wishart : &10.00 GBP - mon...
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Lallands Peat Worrier: A Scottish eye on Éire...
Lallands Peat Worrier: A Scottish eye on Éire...: Yesterday, the Republic of Ireland rejected the Sinn F é in-supported Fine Gael-Labour government proposal to roll up the second house of...
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Man Who Saved Britain
Lallands Peat Worrier: The Man Who Saved Britain: The official line seems to be that Alistair Carmichael will " bring a different, more combative " approach to the role of Secre...
SCOT goes POP!: Back to the future with Alistair Carmichael
SCOT goes POP!: Back to the future with Alistair Carmichael: You might remember that a long time ago, way back when Labour still innocently thought that the 2010 Westminster election was a stepping sto...
Monday, 7 October 2013
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Tarff Advertiser: Lack in the US of A
Tarff Advertiser: Lack in the US of A: The US Government has ceased to exist in all major respects, it is broke, it can not pay its employees so all the normal little cogs of go...
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Logic's Rock: We Have Lift Off!
Logic's Rock: We Have Lift Off!: The Yes Campaign achieved Lift Off yesterday evening in Leith. It was the self-styled Project Fear's worst nightmare: Over a year of...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : DESCUBRINDO AS NOSAS MUSICAS: SantiagoTafall Abad ...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : DESCUBRINDO AS NOSAS MUSICAS: SantiagoTafall Abad ...: Parabéns, Beatriz Cancela por tan fabuloso traballo sobre a Historia dos nosos músicos. Unha aperta enorme! DESCUBRINDO AS NOSAS MUSICAS...
Friday, 4 October 2013
Logic's Rock: What on Earth was the Brass Thinking?
Logic's Rock: What on Earth was the Brass Thinking?: Call me old fashioned, and I speak as a former Army and RAF officer, but I think both the British and the Scottish Public like to see their...
Logic's Rock: The Fear Factor Episode 5 of 6: The Artists, The P...
Logic's Rock: The Fear Factor Episode 5 of 6: The Artists, The P...: Scared at the prospect of running your own country? Terrified about what the future holds? Haunted by nightmarish visions of deep uncertain...
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: A couple of my comments on scotland-us.com
Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: A couple of my comments on scotland-us.com: COMMENT ONE The oft-repeated statement that there is a lack of information about independence, when it is not politically motivated, often...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Tarff Advertiser: Tell Scotland I love her, Tell Scotland I care ......
Tarff Advertiser: Tell Scotland I love her, Tell Scotland I care ......: I have been leading a pretty normal and quiet life, for me, since my last blog post; having taken an oath to myself to ignore the rest of ...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : Keep yourself well informed about // Mantente ben ...
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : Keep yourself well informed about // Mantente ben ...: Make yourselves useful : http://wingsoverscotland.com/make-yourselves-useful/ Very interesting links: http://www.newsnetscotland.co...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : LIBRO RECOMENDADO // RECOMMENDED BOOK
A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : LIBRO RECOMENDADO // RECOMMENDED BOOK: Culturas indíxenas // Muller // Ecoloxía Indigenous Cultures // Women // Ecology
SCOT goes POP!: Easton sees no Scottishness
SCOT goes POP!: Easton sees no Scottishness: There's a really, really odd article on the BBC website by Mark Easton that attempts to portray the census results on national identity ...
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