Tuesday, 31 December 2013

Peter A Bell: 2013: The year of fear

Peter A Bell: 2013: The year of fear: I don't think it is any exaggeration to say that 2013 has been the year of fear. We have been subjected to a relentless campaign of g...

SCOT goes POP!: Ten reasons to be optimistic about a Yes to indepe...

SCOT goes POP!: Ten reasons to be optimistic about a Yes to indepe...: Unlike so many of our friends in the London media, I don't claim to have a crystal ball handy, and therefore I wouldn't be surprised...

Monday, 30 December 2013

SCOT goes POP!: The anti-independence campaign are insulting some ...

SCOT goes POP!: The anti-independence campaign are insulting some ...: A guest contribution by Dorice We shouldn't be remotely surprised by the results of yesterday's Panelbase poll on attitudes in th...

SCOT goes POP!: Fascinating Panelbase poll suggests that English, ...

SCOT goes POP!: Fascinating Panelbase poll suggests that English, ...: I wasn't really expecting any referendum-flavoured opinion polls between Christmas and New Year, but one has arrived just the same, and ...

Lallands Peat Worrier: What does "sovereignty" of the people of Scotland ...

Lallands Peat Worrier: What does "sovereignty" of the people of Scotland ...: David Torrance has a column in this morning's Herald , "Recognition of sovereignty need not threaten UK state."   In it, Da...

Frankly Independent: Dystopia

Frankly Independent: Dystopia: I dare say you missed the Queen of England's Chrissy massage today. If you also missed Channel 4 's Alternative Christmas Message,...

Frankly Independent: Dystopia

Frankly Independent: Dystopia: I dare say you missed the Queen of England's Chrissy massage today. If you also missed Channel 4 's Alternative Christmas Message,...

Tarff Advertiser: An Alternate Queen's Speech

Tarff Advertiser: An Alternate Queen's Speech: I have decided that 2014 will see my abdication from my realms of Scotland and England in protest at the harm my Government and those who a...

Tuesday, 24 December 2013

SCOT goes POP!: Denis the Double Standard

SCOT goes POP!: Denis the Double Standard: I do actually have a modicum of human sympathy for Denis MacShane today - my only real problem with the guy is that he's a pompous, sanc...

SCOT goes POP!: A small prediction for 2014...

SCOT goes POP!: A small prediction for 2014...: If there's a Yes vote in September, the first we'll hear from John Rentoul, Euan McColm et al will be something along the lines of -...

Sunday, 22 December 2013

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Spin by headline and the Herald.

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Spin by headline and the Herald.: Today was the second time the Herald rejected an online comment of mine. The common factor seems to be that both comments criticised the way...

Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SATURDAY

Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SATURDAY: La Capa Except Better Together, of course In the good old days of Alistair Darling we used to queue like this outside Northern...

Tarff Advertiser: Thank you for coming .....

Tarff Advertiser: Thank you for coming .....: Today I appeared at my DWP Tribunal, in spite of taking the time to write the following, I was basically asked how I was feeling today and...

The Lockerbie Case: Crown Office accused of a cruel and cynical strate...

The Lockerbie Case: Crown Office accused of a cruel and cynical strate...: [What follows is the text of an item posted earlier this week on the Lockerbie Truth website of Dr Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph:] It i...

SCOT goes POP!: Considering the state of play among young voters

SCOT goes POP!: Considering the state of play among young voters: It always used to baffle me that politicians and journalists alike seemed to take it as read that the female vote is more important than the...

Thursday, 19 December 2013

Tarff Advertiser: The Three, nearly Four, Decade Old Lie ...

Tarff Advertiser: The Three, nearly Four, Decade Old Lie ...: Figures explode subsidy myth: Scotland gave £27bn more than was received  (Robbie Dinwoodie, Glasgow Herald, 27 March 1997) Exclusiv...

SCOT goes POP!: Dramatic new TNS-BMRB poll shows the pro-independe...

SCOT goes POP!: Dramatic new TNS-BMRB poll shows the pro-independe...: Just as I was about to go to bed safe in the apparent knowledge that the day's only polling "news" was the Herald 's farci...

Wednesday, 18 December 2013

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : The relationship between tru...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : The relationship between tru...: CALLY : My people have a saying. 'A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.' AVON : Life expectancy must be fairly s...

SCOT goes POP!: Green Yes

SCOT goes POP!: Green Yes: I must admit that, until I saw the mention of it on Wings over Scotland yesterday, I wasn't aware that the Green Yes campaign was runni...

Tarff Advertiser: A Snowball starts rolling?

Tarff Advertiser: A Snowball starts rolling?: Thanks to all the readers of the Scottish Breakaway article, you have made it one of my best read articles yet. On the request of one rea...

SCOT goes POP!: Clues from YouGov about undecided voters

SCOT goes POP!: Clues from YouGov about undecided voters: Just one final (probably!) dip into the details of last week's YouGov referendum poll. Unlike the recent Ipsos-Mori poll or the second P...

SCOT goes POP!: I am a traitor

SCOT goes POP!: I am a traitor: And I mean that quite literally. From the Guardian - "A 165-year-old law that threatens anyone calling for the abolition of the mona...

Friday, 13 December 2013

Frankly Independent: Dead End?

Frankly Independent: Dead End?: As you will no doubt be aware, the devolved pro-independence Catalan Government announced yesterday that pro-referendum parties, forming ...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll suggests that the pro-independence cam...

SCOT goes POP!: YouGov poll suggests that the pro-independence cam...: The remaining details of this week's YouGov poll have been released, and the most eye-catching finding is that there are now more than t...

Tarff Advertiser: Nay, Nay and Thrice Nay!

Tarff Advertiser: Nay, Nay and Thrice Nay!: Why I am fighting hard to end the failed and lopsided UK Union Parliament by returning to the Scottish realm its sovereign parliament? I h...

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: What awaits Scotland after a No vote

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: What awaits Scotland after a No vote: This was my hasty ( I was on my way to hospital ) reply to an article criticising the No campaign - Aren’t we already losing Scotland I’v...

Thursday, 12 December 2013

Munguin's Republic: FOOD PRICE STORY PROVES TO BE YET MORE FEARMONGERI...

Munguin's Republic: FOOD PRICE STORY PROVES TO BE YET MORE FEARMONGERI...: Dear Old Niko reminded me last night in his post of the scare stories about food becoming more expensive in an independent Scotland.  An...

Munguin's Republic: HE MAKES YOU WANT TO VOMIT, EVEN MORE TODAY

Munguin's Republic: HE MAKES YOU WANT TO VOMIT, EVEN MORE TODAY: Was I the only one who was more than a little nauseated at the sight of David Cameron at President Mandela's service today? Ther...

Munguin's Republic: BETTER TOGETHER LAUNCH THEIR (QUITE LITERALLY) WHI...

Munguin's Republic: BETTER TOGETHER LAUNCH THEIR (QUITE LITERALLY) WHI...: If Alistair the Comatose read the YES campaign's white paper in less than an hour (all 600+ pages of it), how long do you think it wil...

Munguin's Republic: HOW SCARED WE ALL WERE?

Munguin's Republic: HOW SCARED WE ALL WERE?: And yet, when I last caught sight of her, Nicola still had two arms... Funny how things turn out, eh? ++++++++++ I remember looking...

Tarff Advertiser: Dementia

Tarff Advertiser: Dementia: I note the UK Government are going to double their budget for dementia care according to the Gruniad and other media. As usual, hidden away...

A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : GALICIAN RASCALS!

A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : GALICIAN RASCALS!: Someone has woken up as joker these days and decided to mock on Cameron and his wee problem with Scotland... http://www.change.org/petitio...

SCOT goes POP!: New Ipsos-Mori poll confirms increase in support f...

SCOT goes POP!: New Ipsos-Mori poll confirms increase in support f...: Ipsos-Mori have just released the third poll on independence referendum voting intentions to be published since the launch of the Scottish G...

SCOT goes POP!: New YouGov poll shows increase in support for inde...

SCOT goes POP!: New YouGov poll shows increase in support for inde...: My new favourite pastime of "spot the good #indyref poll for Yes by seeing what Blair 'Complacency' McDougall doesn't say ...

SCOT goes POP!: Vive L'Écosse Libre!

SCOT goes POP!: Vive L'Écosse Libre!: As I've spent a fair bit of time recently calculating poll averages, I thought I might take it a step further and do the same thing for ...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Tarff Advertiser: The Scottish Break Away

Tarff Advertiser: The Scottish Break Away: Oh, Scotland has nae got a King And she dis’nae hae a Queen. Hoo kin thir be a Second Liz Whin the first yins niver been? So we...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

The Real McGowan: Limmy's #IndyRef Contribution

The Real McGowan: Limmy's #IndyRef Contribution:                                                    Scottish comedian and actor Brian Limond - aka Limmy - makes a contribution to the con...

SCOT goes POP!: Kitten

SCOT goes POP!: Kitten: On the evening of Saturday, 7th December 2013, the Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP said kitten, and the world changed forever. In an intellect...

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Logic's Rock: How Long has the Gorbals Goebbels Got?

Logic's Rock: How Long has the Gorbals Goebbels Got?: I sincerely hope Ian Taylor's company Vitol got good value for money for the $1M dollars he paid Serbian war criminal Arkan , because T...

Tarff Advertiser: Mandela and the media circus

Tarff Advertiser: Mandela and the media circus: Mandela's death this week has seen an outpouring of cynical political advantage. A man Western Governments hated for most of his life,...

SCOT goes POP!: Breslin-gate rumbles on...

SCOT goes POP!: Breslin-gate rumbles on...: As a quick follow-up to my last post about Jeff Breslin's now famous tweet comparing Alex Salmond with Nelson Mandela, here's a very...

Saturday, 7 December 2013

Tarff Advertiser: The UK Union commits suicide.

Tarff Advertiser: The UK Union commits suicide.: I believe the House of Lords are in breach of the Treaty of Union in their attempt to remove powers from Scotland and the Scottish Parlia...

Tocasaid: Those RUK flag options

Tocasaid: Those RUK flag options: As the possibility of life's destruction draws near, for those on the London Gravy Train at least, the Brit Nats are spiralling into...

Tarff Advertiser: Logic and politics - an oxymoron?

Tarff Advertiser: Logic and politics - an oxymoron?: If anyone bothered to listen to the Gideot's Autumn fairy story and lasted more than the five minutes that I was reduced to before taki...

Munguin's Republic: WILL DARLING BE PUNTED?

Munguin's Republic: WILL DARLING BE PUNTED?: Your country needs you, Gordon. I like a good laugh. So I was delighted to read the Daily Mail story about poor old Alistair Darli...

Munguin's Republic: WAKE UP, SCOTLAND

Munguin's Republic: WAKE UP, SCOTLAND: A blitzkrieg, says Alan Bissett. In last two days, Tories have raised the retirement age to 70 (don't expect Labour to reverse it...

SCOT goes POP!: Support for independence increases, as new TNS-BMR...

SCOT goes POP!: Support for independence increases, as new TNS-BMR...: There's an encouraging new poll out tonight from TNS-BMRB, which essentially backs up the trend suggested by the PSO poll the other day ...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Tarff Advertiser: The Gideot's Autumn Statement in Winter

Tarff Advertiser: The Gideot's Autumn Statement in Winter: Economy on the mend, Gideot? .... Just who are you kidding, the UK's economic growth has come from two ...

SCOT goes POP!: Poor old Judy Finnigan, begin ag'in

SCOT goes POP!: Poor old Judy Finnigan, begin ag'in: I never thought I'd get to the point with this blog where I'd actually sit down to 'fisk' a hostile article from TV's Ri...

Monday, 2 December 2013

Munguin's Republic: Chief Editorial Editor at The Independent:-- "When...

Munguin's Republic: Chief Editorial Editor at The Independent:-- "When...: Chief Editorial Editor at The Independent:-- "When you look at Darling now, though, and you listen to what he says about Scotland, a...

Sign for Scotland: Nobody Wants You (so please stay with us!)

Sign for Scotland: Nobody Wants You (so please stay with us!): The phrase ‘too small, too poor, too stupid’ has been used to describe the principle arguments against Scottish Independence.   I feel that ...

Monty's Blog: Scots to be free from the UK on March 24th 2016

Monty's Blog: Scots to be free from the UK on March 24th 2016: Scottish Independence Day will be the 24th March 2016 if we vote in favour at next Septembers referendum. The date is included in the Sc...

fazzledown: Back to business...

fazzledown: Back to business...: Contained within the dusty cobwebbed virtual shelves that make up BBC News Scotland's on line vault lies a wee story tucked away in the ...

fazzledown: I'm still here...

fazzledown: I'm still here...: You would think, given all the doom laden think tank out-pourings that have taken place, I might have just given up.* Has there been any thi...

SCOT goes POP!: The Strange Death of UKIP Scotland, or 'Every Clou...

SCOT goes POP!: The Strange Death of UKIP Scotland, or 'Every Clou...: Here's the bad news , folks : Nigel Farage has sacked Lord Monckton as "leader" of "UKIP in Scotland" (if the latter...

Lallands Peat Worrier: The White Paper Constitution

Lallands Peat Worrier: The White Paper Constitution: An independent Scotland would have a written constitution. The text of that constitution would be formulated not by parliament, but by a ...

Lallands Peat Worrier: White Paper Strategies

Lallands Peat Worrier: White Paper Strategies: Government publishes long boring report.  Plenty of trees mulched, nobody dead.  Not really the stuff lively media and public interest is...

Munguin's Republic: PHOTOS ON (very nearly) FRIDAY

Munguin's Republic: PHOTOS ON (very nearly) FRIDAY: Anyone know the number of this U-turn? Yeah, go on. Vote for Davenomics You have to admit, it makes no sense. They aren't the ...

Munguin's Republic: A LOOK AT THE 1603 AND 1707 TREATIES

Munguin's Republic: A LOOK AT THE 1603 AND 1707 TREATIES: Reading around the Facebook pages this morning, I noticed this post on "EU Citizens for an independent Scotland" . In what se...