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...

SCOT goes POP!: A visit to the Scottish Parliament

SCOT goes POP!: A visit to the Scottish Parliament: I know many readers of this blog will have visited the Scottish Parliament on countless occasions, but today was actually the first time I h...

SCOT goes POP!: Sturgeon v the Lib Dems' third choice

SCOT goes POP!: Sturgeon v the Lib Dems' third choice: I wonder just how much of a realist Alistair Carmichael is. It won't have been a surprise to any of the viewers of tonight's refere...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013

Munguin's Republic: I'M SICK OF THE BBC AND BETTER TOGETHER TREATING M...

Munguin's Republic: I'M SICK OF THE BBC AND BETTER TOGETHER TREATING M...: I gave up listening to the news interviews yesterday on the subject of our country’s future because they were almost unremittingly biased...

Munguin's Republic: I'M SICK OF THE BBC AND BETTER TOGETHER TREATING M...

Munguin's Republic: I'M SICK OF THE BBC AND BETTER TOGETHER TREATING M...: I gave up listening to the news interviews yesterday on the subject of our country’s future because they were almost unremittingly biased...

A Sair Fecht: Where There's Muck, There's Brass

A Sair Fecht: Where There's Muck, There's Brass: It's been a long time since I've had to think about my school qualifications. This morning, however, I've dusted off my passes i...

Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: Hidden Wealth.

Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: Hidden Wealth.: It gets you that way. You find yourself in a long Facebook natter and suddenly you realise there is a fact which doesn't often get highl...

Frankly Independent: The Book of Revelations

Frankly Independent: The Book of Revelations:                White Paper on independence launch, Glasgow, November 26th 2013         Numerous overseas journ...

SCOT goes POP!: Listen, Darling. No, this time, actually LISTEN.

SCOT goes POP!: Listen, Darling. No, this time, actually LISTEN.: What in general has been a very uplifting day was only very marginally blighted by the unavoidable delight of listening to Alistair "Dr...

The Calum Maclean Project: Alba ag Gul / Scotland’s Wailing

The Calum Maclean Project: Alba ag Gul / Scotland’s Wailing: If Calum Maclean were alive today then he would have been very pleased to see the publication of the White Paper on Scotland’s independen...

SCOT goes POP!: #Indyplan Eve Poetry (aka Burns Will Be Turning In...

SCOT goes POP!: #Indyplan Eve Poetry (aka Burns Will Be Turning In...: A little-known fact about myself (ie. no-one actually gives a monkey's) is that in 2008 I was one of the runners-up in Fish Publishing&#...

Monday, 25 November 2013

Munguin's Republic: IS THIS A CHANGE IN THE HERALD'S ATTITUDE TO THE D...

Munguin's Republic: IS THIS A CHANGE IN THE HERALD'S ATTITUDE TO THE D...: The Herald’s editorial takes a pleasingly balanced and sensible line on the White Paper on Independence. The thing that most caught m...

Munguin's Republic: DEAR, DEAR, DEAR

Munguin's Republic: DEAR, DEAR, DEAR: ...as long as they were already there to begin with. Dear Rt Hon Mr Alexander How proud did it make you to open a food bank f...

SCOT goes POP!: Support for independence increases in latest Panel...

SCOT goes POP!: Support for independence increases in latest Panel...: Broadly speaking, it's 'steady as she goes' in the latest Panelbase poll on independence referendum voting intentions, with the ...

Frankly Independent: Voting for Scotland

Frankly Independent: Voting for Scotland: An influential and powerful Labour figure for nearly four decades, Alex Mosson, former Labour Lord Provost of Glasgow, recently explained ...

SCOT goes POP!: Has Peter Capaldi 'gone English' for Doctor Who?

SCOT goes POP!: Has Peter Capaldi 'gone English' for Doctor Who?: I said back in August that if Peter Capaldi followed David Tennant's example , and spoke his first words as Doctor Who in an English ac...

Tarff Advertiser: Scotland is not Gaza but ...

Tarff Advertiser: Scotland is not Gaza but ...: " Feeling frustrated at there being so many nutters, lunatics and psychopaths running this planet. So much pain and suffering every...

Saturday, 23 November 2013

SCOT goes POP!: Sorry to be so repetitive..

SCOT goes POP!: Sorry to be so repetitive..: ...but if the No campaign and their friends in the media can't help themselves, why should I? From the Guardian - "Darling, cha...

SCOT goes POP!: Compare and contrast

SCOT goes POP!: Compare and contrast: Scenario A - The SNP First Minister of devolved Scotland expresses a mere opinion on the likelihood that the London government would agree...

SCOT goes POP!: A few more constructive things you can do with you...

SCOT goes POP!: A few more constructive things you can do with you...: These Indiegogo fundraising campaigns for pro-independence causes seem to be sprouting up all over the place now - which is perhaps hardly s...

Reporting the Referendum: Black holes and white lies

Reporting the Referendum: Black holes and white lies: Another day, another "black hole" (though I see the online version is a lot more restrained ). Surely the No side will have to ...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : I suppose we all thought th...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : I suppose we all thought th...: "I seem to remember that OGH's last lauding of a Scottish Lib Dem was to say that Willie Rennie was the man the SNP fear. Have we a...

Tarff Advertiser: Would you 'Adam and Eve' it ....

Tarff Advertiser: Would you 'Adam and Eve' it ....: The UK Cabinet and Justice Minister, Chris Grayling, with responsibility for ensuring the 'UK's Laws...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Magnus Gardham and the currency question

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2013: Magnus Gardham and the currency question: I thought Magnus Gardham would have let his non-story of yesterday die quietly to avoid further embarrassment. But no, today he unwisely tri...

Scotland!: Haste Ye Back

Scotland!: Haste Ye Back: As you can probably imagine, there are many things that we saw or did while in Scotland that we didn't share in the previous blogs eithe...

Alba Matters: Why UKIP won't get an MEP in Scotland in 2014

Alba Matters: Why UKIP won't get an MEP in Scotland in 2014: As someone who found maths to be a breeze at school, it always annoys me to see the media making basic mistakes with numbers. It's parti...

Munguin's Republic: SLOWLY SLOWLY CATCHY MONKEY

Munguin's Republic: SLOWLY SLOWLY CATCHY MONKEY: I must admit that I thought that starting the referendum campaign early was a daft move. People have short interest spans and after the 6...

SCOT goes POP!: Advantage Independence

SCOT goes POP!: Advantage Independence: One piece of advice you sometimes hear tennis commentators giving is that if you get your opponent break point down, the first thing you sho...

Sunday, 17 November 2013

Dispatches from Paisley: A Bit Of A Heated Debate

Dispatches from Paisley: A Bit Of A Heated Debate: One of the by-products of the news surrounding both Grangemouth and BAE Systems has been the he said, she said nature of studio discuss...

Sign for Scotland: Ten a Penny - Westminster's Current Currency Threa...

Sign for Scotland: Ten a Penny - Westminster's Current Currency Threa...: George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, has made a number of threats since the referendum on Scottish Independence was announced… http://uk....

Smatterings: Currency, currently

Smatterings: Currency, currently: Currency demands 'should be set out,'   read yesterday's BBC Scotland's Politics headline. Darling piles on pressure over ...

Frankly Independent: Louise Batchelor Reporting

Frankly Independent: Louise Batchelor Reporting: Former BBC reporter and environment correspondent Louise Batchelor explains why she will be voting Yes in the Scottish independence refer...

Munguin's Republic: MORE LIES FROM NO

Munguin's Republic: MORE LIES FROM NO: By Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp The unionist myth that the UK subsidises Scotland is one of the greatest confidence tricks in political history....

Munguin's Republic: RANDOM THOUGHTS

Munguin's Republic: RANDOM THOUGHTS: Thanks a lot to whoever brought asked this lot to look after our sick ' They said it would be a game-changer. And in many ways th...

Munguin's Republic: GEORGE KEREVAN ON THE POUND STERLING

Munguin's Republic: GEORGE KEREVAN ON THE POUND STERLING: Much has been made of Alistair Darling's warnings that we cannot take for granted the Bank of England (they forgot that it covered othe...

Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SUNDAY

Munguin's Republic: SNAPS ON SUNDAY: Johann, Ruth...girls, can I join your club...? (some daft UKIP MEP wi the taste o an ingin) ...Erm, if we're not busy doing someth...

SCOT goes POP!: What to look out for in the independence referendu...

SCOT goes POP!: What to look out for in the independence referendu...: Because there has only been one poll so far this year showing an outright lead for the pro-independence campaign , it's been easier for ...

Friday, 15 November 2013

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Frankly Independent: The Price of Freedom

Frankly Independent: The Price of Freedom:           1714 by Alfred Bosch           Next year, when the tercentenary of the fall of Catalonia will be comme...

SCOT goes POP!: Practically identical, yet again

SCOT goes POP!: Practically identical, yet again: Those among the anti-independence commentariat who like to peddle the idea that there's nothing much to choose between public opinion in...

SCOT goes POP!: Practically identical, yet again

SCOT goes POP!: Practically identical, yet again: Those among the anti-independence commentariat who like to peddle the idea that there's nothing much to choose between public opinion in...

Tarff Advertiser: Follow the Money - 2

Tarff Advertiser: Follow the Money - 2: In the US Medical bills underlie more than 60% of bankruptcies in the US and the level of student debt has reached an eye-watering $1.2tn...

Tarff Advertiser: Follow the money ...

Tarff Advertiser: Follow the money ...: Labour shoot themselves in both feet In Parliament yesterday 47 Labour MP's could not be bothered to...

Tarff Advertiser: What do Tigger's like?

Tarff Advertiser: What do Tigger's like?: I remember reading the Winnie the Pooh story about discovering what the new animal to the Wild, Wild Wood actually needed and how long it t...

Munguin's Republic: 10 Reasons why Scotland is better being part of th...

Munguin's Republic: 10 Reasons why Scotland is better being part of th...: The Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers has come out for NO. Here, in light face, are their reasons for doing so. My responses ar...

SCOT goes POP!: The Donaldson files

SCOT goes POP!: The Donaldson files: Back in the halcyon days when, by sheer luck, I hadn't yet been banned by the delightful Stormfront-lite website Political Betting for ...

Frankly Independent: Bordering on the Ridiculous

Frankly Independent: Bordering on the Ridiculous: Anti-independence scaremongering about the Anglo-Scottish border is the subject of the second video in the Duggy Dug series:     ...

Munguin's Republic: SO, WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING THIS WEEK?

Munguin's Republic: SO, WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING THIS WEEK?: Repugnant creep though Mitchell is, the police who stitched him up are even more so. If they can get away with stitching up a  cabinet mem...

Friday, 8 November 2013

Munguin's Republic: YOU'RE NOT BETTER TOGETHER IF YOU ARE A SCOTTISH F...

Munguin's Republic: YOU'RE NOT BETTER TOGETHER IF YOU ARE A SCOTTISH F...: SNP MEP Alyn Smith has reacted angrily to news that the UK government has announced that it will not pass on hundreds of millions of poun...

Gauging Govan: Why I Wear a White Poppy

Gauging Govan: Why I Wear a White Poppy: It's that time of year again. This month sees the 95th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the Great War, the most efficient and in...

SCOT goes POP!: Boost for pro-independence campaign as the gap con...

SCOT goes POP!: Boost for pro-independence campaign as the gap con...: I know that a number of us have separately come to the conclusion that Blair McDougall is a thoroughly objectionable and rather thuggish ind...

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Alba Matters: There by the grace of the UK

Alba Matters: There by the grace of the UK: There are many reasons why I reject the Christianity that my parents (and school, despite not going to a faith school) tried to bring me up ...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Scots justice for Brooks & Coulson!

Lallands Peat Worrier: Scots justice for Brooks & Coulson!: A final thought for October. Let's make it a finicky, legal one. As you cannot have missed, the trial of Andy Coulson and Rebekah Br...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Scottish Labour: learned nothing, forgiven nothing...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Scottish Labour: learned nothing, forgiven nothing...: I have an embarrassing admission to make: I rate one of President George W Bush's speech-writers. My social democratic sentiments may...

SCOT goes POP!: Things the No campaign say that don't actually mak...

SCOT goes POP!: Things the No campaign say that don't actually mak...: I see that the ever-reliable Duncan Hothersall has offered a measure of support for Ian "Ah'll gie ye a doin' after ah bayonet ...

TRIBUNA DEL BERGUEDÀ: CASA JOAN BOFILL DE SANTA COLOMA DE FARNERS. LA SE...

TRIBUNA DEL BERGUEDÀ: CASA JOAN BOFILL DE SANTA COLOMA DE FARNERS. LA SE...: Retratava el singular edifici del carrer de Sant Sebastià , 4 de Santa Coloma de Farners, el promotor Joan Bofill – sense cognom matern, ...

Monday, 4 November 2013

Frankly Independent: Moore on Catalonia

Frankly Independent: Moore on Catalonia:   "If people in Catalonia decide that they are going to become an independent country, I'd be very surprised if that was not re...

Frankly Independent: Law 99

Frankly Independent: Law 99:          Quebec Government press conference on Law 99 RDI Matin, October 20th 2013           You see in the abov...

Frankly Independent: Not the 18th Century

Frankly Independent: Not the 18th Century: How is the Spanish government's refusal to countenance a Catalan vote on independence viewed in the European Parliament?     ...

Frankly Independent: A Better Country

Frankly Independent: A Better Country:            The conference address of the First Minister of Scotland in Perth on October 19th 2013         "...

Frankly Independent: Attack of the Cybernats

Frankly Independent: Attack of the Cybernats:              The Fear Factor (6): Attack of the Cybernats         Scared at the prospect of running your own cou...

Frankly Independent: Dilemma

Frankly Independent: Dilemma: Is Scotland facing a dilemma?   A dilemma (Greek: δί-λημμα - double proposition) is a problem offering two possibilities, neither of w...

Frankly Independent: The Celtic Fronde

Frankly Independent: The Celtic Fronde:               The Breton Revolt Le Parisien, October 17th 2013         Improbable though it may seem, alarm be...

Peter A Bell: Vote Yes to save the union

Peter A Bell: Vote Yes to save the union: Nicola Sturgeon Nicola Sturgeon rattled a few cages with her address to the SNP Conference in Perth when she spelled out the risks asso...

Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: The Westminster Cronies Al Qaeda ... You decide.

Witterings of a Weegiewarbler: The Westminster Cronies Al Qaeda ... You decide.: Something has been troubling me for some time; it did in 1979 before that referendum, it has again for more than a year. It crystalise...

Sunday, 3 November 2013

SCOT goes POP!: Kilclooney's baloney

SCOT goes POP!: Kilclooney's baloney: I've just caught up with the extraordinary letter to the Scotsman a couple of weeks ago from Lord Kilclooney (former Deputy Leader of t...

SCOT goes POP!: Kilclooney's baloney, part 2

SCOT goes POP!: Kilclooney's baloney, part 2: Lord Kilclooney, aka former deputy leader of the Ulster Unionist Party John Taylor, has made yet another stirring 'contribution' to ...

Saturday, 2 November 2013

SCOT goes POP!: Yeah, Blair, what have the nationalists ever done ...

SCOT goes POP!: Yeah, Blair, what have the nationalists ever done ...: Those ever-delightful anti-independence chaps on Twitter seem to be terribly excited about events in Wales today. Better Together : Devol...

Munguin's Republic: 'If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the...

Munguin's Republic: 'If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the...: Although Mr Aitken might have done slightly better with his operation if, on that occasion, the press hadn't been bang on right, and g...

Munguin's Republic: I LIVE IN DOWNING STREET AND BLAIR McDOUGALL THINK...

Munguin's Republic: I LIVE IN DOWNING STREET AND BLAIR McDOUGALL THINK...: Notwithstanding the fact that we have discussed changing electricity/gas suppliers and found that the majority opinion was that it was a w...

Munguin's Republic: WHY DOES LABOUR HANG ON TO LAMONT?

Munguin's Republic: WHY DOES LABOUR HANG ON TO LAMONT?: Yet another First Minister's Questions disaster Dean recently criticised me for the blog's habit of criticising Labour in gener...

SCOT goes POP!: Questions to which the answer is "Me!"

SCOT goes POP!: Questions to which the answer is "Me!": We're all hugely indebted to Andrew Morton for his illuminating report for Wings from behind enemy lines, at the 'launch' (do t...

Tarff Advertiser: A Christian Government?

Tarff Advertiser: A Christian Government?: Yesterday's discovery of the levels of death amongst UK citizens, apparently directly related to the new UK Government Benefit Policy...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...