Tommy Ball's Blog: A pathetic, hate-filled article: and my response

Tommy Ball's Blog: A pathetic, hate-filled article: and my response: This morning, the extreme right-wing British website The Commentator produced one of the most hilarious interventions in the independence r...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : Some politicians didn't requ...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : Some politicians didn't requ...: "Will the approach that is being taken work?  The argument is that it will be a salutary lesson, that a dictator will be taught a lesso...

Tarff Advertiser: Scotland has more than enough self determination.

Tarff Advertiser: Scotland has more than enough self determination.: "Scotland has more than enough self determination." I came across this stunning statement  (on a Facebook page which seeks to fac...

Frankly Independent: We Shall Overcome

Frankly Independent: We Shall Overcome:                    In memory of Pete Seeger , who died the other day.   We are not afraid today. The truth shal...

Munguin's Republic: TO KILL THE TRUTH - A NOVEL BY DUNDEE AUTHOR, CALL...

Munguin's Republic: TO KILL THE TRUTH - A NOVEL BY DUNDEE AUTHOR, CALL...: I just came across this book on Amazon. It was written by Dundee author Callum Duffy, who amazingly, is only 15 years old. It gets good ...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Lallands Peat Worrier: Verruca Gnomes

Lallands Peat Worrier: Verruca Gnomes: In Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, the disappearance of the Discworld's porcine equivalent of Father Christmas throws Hogwatchnight ...

Logic's Rock: Daily Mail's Witchfinder-General Graham Grant in C...

Logic's Rock: Daily Mail's Witchfinder-General Graham Grant in C...: It makes me feel all nostalgic for Art Deco, Hercule Poirot and  the 1930s. This time it isn't Rothermere cosying up to and supporting ...

Logic's Rock: So who are British Unity?

Logic's Rock: So who are British Unity?: It's actually rather difficult to tell. We have the internet creation that is Andrew Skinner (which may, or may not be a real name) of ...

SCOT goes POP!: ICM poll looks robust

SCOT goes POP!: ICM poll looks robust: Many thanks to Stuart Dickson for pointing me in the direction of the full datasets for the remarkable poll that has, for the time being at ...

Monday, 27 January 2014

SCOT goes POP!: SNP enjoy huge 19% lead over Labour in ICM poll

SCOT goes POP!: SNP enjoy huge 19% lead over Labour in ICM poll: Further details of this weekend's extraordinary ICM poll have been released by the Scotsman . Unfortunately, however, the party politic...

SCOT goes POP!: This is the bit where everything changes - sensati...

SCOT goes POP!: This is the bit where everything changes - sensati...: At moments like this you're supposed to punch the air in delight, but I'm so dumbfounded that I think I've only managed to do it...

Munguin's Republic: SO TELL ME AGAIN, WHY DID GORDON BROWN WAIT UNTIL ...

Munguin's Republic: SO TELL ME AGAIN, WHY DID GORDON BROWN WAIT UNTIL ...: Not desperately interested in what you're saying there, matey. You have even less power than Gordon Brown and are, by most people'...

Logic's Rock: Get Your Proud Cybernat Badges as Recommended by t...

Logic's Rock: Get Your Proud Cybernat Badges as Recommended by t...: It's been a bitch of a couple of days at work, so it was really nice to come home to a life-affirming message from a friend, and messag...

Logic's Rock: Jim Sillars - 15 Hours of Popular Sovereignty

Logic's Rock: Jim Sillars - 15 Hours of Popular Sovereignty: Jim Sillars poses the key question. On 18th September 2014 we shall taste the power of 15 hours of the Popular Sovereignty Scots Law and an...

Logic's Rock: Cybernats Continue to Perform Valuable Public Serv...

Logic's Rock: Cybernats Continue to Perform Valuable Public Serv...: Well, folks it's out. The result of the week-long, UK-wide, witch-hunt by the Scottish branch of the Daily Mail, the paedophiles'...

Frankly Independent: Barking up the Wrong Tree?

Frankly Independent: Barking up the Wrong Tree?:              Doggedly pushing the Scottish-rUK currency-union proposal

AAV: Iain Duncan Smith: Slavery and Narcissism

AAV: Iain Duncan Smith: Slavery and Narcissism: Iain Duncan Smith has once again demonstrated how out of touch with reality he is. In an absurdly self-congratulatory speech he compa...

SCOT goes POP!: Professional buffoon Ian Dunt thrills the nation w...

SCOT goes POP!: Professional buffoon Ian Dunt thrills the nation w...: Ian Dunt, fondly known to millions across Scotland as "the thinking woman's Richard Madeley", has scaled new heights of idiocy...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : There is no such thing as Ma...

SCOT goes POP!: Wisdom on Wednesday : There is no such thing as Ma...: "It's just possible that you've been given a series of orders while you've been asleep. You know, 'do this', 'd...

Tarff Advertiser: When you go, will you send me, a letter frae Westm...

Tarff Advertiser: When you go, will you send me, a letter frae Westm...: "When you go,  Will you send me,  A letter frae Westminster? Tak a squint up yon wide street, Frae Whitehall tae Parliament. Well...

Tarff Advertiser: When you go, will you send me, a letter frae Westm...

Tarff Advertiser: When you go, will you send me, a letter frae Westm...: "When you go,  Will you send me,  A letter frae Westminster? Tak a squint up yon wide street, Frae Whitehall tae Parliament. Well...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 5

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 5: The fifth instalment of a translation of EU expert Yves Gounin's recent article in Politique Etrangère on the hypothetical but pressi...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 6

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 6: The sixth instalment of a translation of EU expert Yves Gounin's recent article in Politique Etrangère on the hypothetical EU members...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 7

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 7: Here is the seventh and penultimate instalment of a translation of the recent article in Politique Etrangère by Yves Gounin , former chief...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 7

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 7: Here is the seventh and penultimate instalment of a translation of the recent article in Politique Etrangère by Yves Gounin , former chief...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 8

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 8: Patience rewarded. Here is the eighth and final instalment of a translation of  the recent article in Politique Etrangère by Yves Gounin, ...

Frankly Independent: BBC Catalonia

Frankly Independent: BBC Catalonia: Here is a video published yesterday in which, improbable though it may seem, the pro-independence First Minister of the restive Spanish a...

Saturday, 18 January 2014

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 6

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 6: The sixth instalment of a translation of EU expert Yves Gounin's recent article in Politique Etrangère on the hypothetical EU members...

Logic's Rock: Comic Trumps Academic in "Evil Cybernat" Publicity...

Logic's Rock: Comic Trumps Academic in "Evil Cybernat" Publicity...: As the storm in a teacup that was the utterly contrived Susan Calman "abuse" and "death threats" stooshie was subsidin...

Logic's Rock: Nicola Sturgeon to the (Still Baffling) William Ha...

Logic's Rock: Nicola Sturgeon to the (Still Baffling) William Ha...: Following his sally North last week, despite in his boss's words the referendum being a matter "for the Scots" alone, the Dep...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 5

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 5: The fifth instalment of a translation of EU expert Yves Gounin's recent article in Politique Etrangère on the hypothetical but pressi...

SNmr: Fever pitch

SNmr: Fever pitch: Over the past few days the level of No hysteria has reached new peaks. It is an odd mix of the manic, the furious and the downright ridiculo...

SCOT goes POP!: Alex Massie, and primary school debating points

SCOT goes POP!: Alex Massie, and primary school debating points: I overlooked Alex Massie's defence of Chris Deerin's widely-ridiculed "independence supporters are all kilted bum-barers" ...

WeegieNat: Knowledge Really Is Power

WeegieNat: Knowledge Really Is Power: It has almost become a staple fact in the independence referendum that the more people know about independence, the more likely they are to...

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 4

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 4: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.   The fourth instalment of a translation of EU ex...

Tocasaid: Those tenuous Celtic Connections...

Tocasaid: Those tenuous Celtic Connections...: Sure, it brightens up a dreich Glaswegian January. Sure, it provides entertainment and employment to some. Sure, some of it is interest...

Leith Notes: Stifled? 'A Happy New Year for Democracy'

Leith Notes: Stifled? 'A Happy New Year for Democracy': A Labour party member recently told me that the Scottish Labour Party has never had an internal debate or discussion on the independence qu...

SCOT goes POP!: More statistical proof that Yes can win (courtesy ...

SCOT goes POP!: More statistical proof that Yes can win (courtesy ...: One of the hoary old myths that has occasionally been trotted out in this campaign is that there is some kind of 'iron law' in refer...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 3

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 3: The third instalment of my step-by-step presentation of a translation of French EU expert Yves Gounin's recent article in Politique Et...

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Logic's Rock: Welcome to the Project Fear Twilight Zone!

Logic's Rock: Welcome to the Project Fear Twilight Zone!: What a frankly bizarre week! After Scottish Secretary Alistair  Carmichael's bizarre Top 20 , the #indyrefski saga , HM Treasury'...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 2

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 2:              Internal enlargement of the European Union Centre Maurits Coppieters         Continuing my step-by-...

SCOT goes POP!: Warning on Wednesday : The true meaning of the UK'...

SCOT goes POP!: Warning on Wednesday : The true meaning of the UK'...: "The first thing is to stop the Scots grumbling. Emasculate them. That would concentrate their minds. The Scots are getting too much.&q...

SCOT goes POP!: Warning on Wednesday : The true meaning of the UK'...

SCOT goes POP!: Warning on Wednesday : The true meaning of the UK'...: "The first thing is to stop the Scots grumbling. Emasculate them. That would concentrate their minds. The Scots are getting too much.&q...

SCOT goes POP!: This is one Scot who will not shirk his moral duty...

SCOT goes POP!: This is one Scot who will not shirk his moral duty...: Whenever Blair McDougall takes some rare time out from his internet trolling career to laud an anti-independence rant in the Guardian as &q...

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 1

Frankly Independent: A Challenging Conundrum, part 1:           In my first post of this year I drew attention to Yves Gounin's recent article in Politique Etrangère  entit...

Monday, 13 January 2014

Frankly Independent: Law and Legitimacy

Frankly Independent: Law and Legitimacy:       Law and Legitimacy: the denial of the Catalan voice - Centre Maurits Coppieters         Here you have a discus...

Sunday, 12 January 2014

Tocasaid: Better Together official promotion of the BNP?

Tocasaid: Better Together official promotion of the BNP?: While vegetating on the #indyref offerings, I stumbled across the above nugget of interest. This was taken, today 11/1/14, from Better To...

SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori's 'state of the nation' poll provides d...

SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori's 'state of the nation' poll provides d...: The think-tank 'British Future' (who, judging by both their name and their analysis, are anything but impartial on the matter in han...

SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori's 'state of the nation' poll provides d...

SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori's 'state of the nation' poll provides d...: The think-tank 'British Future' (who, judging by both their name and their analysis, are anything but impartial on the matter in han...

Logic's Rock: Logic's Rock: The 2013 Top Ten

Logic's Rock: Logic's Rock: The 2013 Top Ten: Here's the top ten most read posts on Logic's Rock from 2013, counting down from No 10 in best pop pickers fashion. In at ...

Logic's Rock: Stronger Together? Мы арсе!

Logic's Rock: Stronger Together? Мы арсе!: Stronger together? My Russian arse! Last night the Twitter hastag #indyrefski was born as the Sunday Herald reported that the Prime Minis...

Frankly Independent: One Less Yes

Frankly Independent: One Less Yes: Forgive me for taking so long to wish you a happy and prosperous new year.   The reason for the delay is simply that I am bereaved and...

Saturday, 11 January 2014

SCOT goes POP!: Sagacity on Saturday : Last time around

SCOT goes POP!: Sagacity on Saturday : Last time around: "Interesting, but appears to have misunderstood the question." Canon Kenyon Wright, chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Conv...

Tommy Ball's Blog: One Direction

Tommy Ball's Blog: One Direction: We're often told that Scots should not vote for independence because that would, somehow, "abandon" our friends in England, W...

Tommy Ball's Blog: Don't Separate, Don't Split, Don't Think, Just Tru...

Tommy Ball's Blog: Don't Separate, Don't Split, Don't Think, Just Tru...: We're not to vote to govern ourselves now because, you see, it's all OK.  Labour, the munificent fount of all that is great abo...

Tommy Ball's Blog: Why Jack McConnell is an idiot

Tommy Ball's Blog: Why Jack McConnell is an idiot: Yesterday dawned well for, ahem, "The Right Honourable Jack Wilson McConnell, Baron McConnell of Glenscorrodale of the Isle of Arran i...

Munguin's Republic: WORDS OF WISDOM FROM ROBERTSON, NOBLE OF SOMEWHERE...

Munguin's Republic: WORDS OF WISDOM FROM ROBERTSON, NOBLE OF SOMEWHERE...: Writing in the Washington Post and quoted in the Telegraph, Mr Robertson of Port Ellen  has warned of the damage Scottish separation woul...

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2014: Cybernats – Eat your heart out!

Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2014: Cybernats – Eat your heart out!: I feel that cybernats are having their undeserved reputation for bad behaviour seriously challenged of late. Here are some of my favourites...

Friday, 10 January 2014

SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori poll shows that No voters feel much les...

SCOT goes POP!: Ipsos-Mori poll shows that No voters feel much les...: Many thanks to Alasdair Stirling for dropping me a line to point out a fascinating detail from the recent Ipsos-Mori poll commissioned by th...

SCOT goes POP!: Anti-independence campaign shoot themselves in the...

SCOT goes POP!: Anti-independence campaign shoot themselves in the...: Incomprehensibly, 'Better Together' - the campaign that is fighting to maintain the constitutional status quo - has just published a...

SCOT goes POP!: Anti-independence campaign shoot themselves in the...

SCOT goes POP!: Anti-independence campaign shoot themselves in the...: Incomprehensibly, 'Better Together' - the campaign that is fighting to maintain the constitutional status quo - has just published a...

SCOT goes POP!: Do you think Alex Salmond should give you a free w...

SCOT goes POP!: Do you think Alex Salmond should give you a free w...: After hearing the results of the poll on childcare that was commissioned by the anti-independence campaign, we've been waiting with bate...

SCOT goes POP!: New ComRes poll of referendum voting intentions in...

SCOT goes POP!: New ComRes poll of referendum voting intentions in...: The anti-independence campaign have spent the evening making an unconvincing attempt at looking thrilled to bits with the news that a region...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Corroboration: a wicker shield against miscarriage...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Corroboration: a wicker shield against miscarriage...: News this morning that two ex-Lords President of the Court of Session, Hamilton and Cullen , oppose abolishing corroboration. Both f...

Law and Lawyers: Northern Viewpoint ~ Scotland and the corroboratio...

Law and Lawyers: Northern Viewpoint ~ Scotland and the corroboratio...: One of the fascinations of the British Isles has to be the diversity of its legal systems. Scotland has its own Parliament (operating un...

Sunday, 5 January 2014

SCOT goes POP!: Poll Exclusive : Voters demand that the Scotland o...

SCOT goes POP!: Poll Exclusive : Voters demand that the Scotland o...: Pollster : OK, here's the next question.  How and when do you think that free childcare provision should be extended to match the best ...

Saturday, 4 January 2014

Logic's Rock: The Welsh Will Love This

Logic's Rock: The Welsh Will Love This: Standing the foul language, racism and sectarianism, is the "Homeless Like all of Dublin", the "£20M Queen" or "A&...

Logic's Rock: Scotland's Future

Logic's Rock: Scotland's Future: Don't rely on the BBC or the rest of the media. Here's the launch video, watch it for yourself then read the white paper and ma...

Logic's Rock: By Jingo! We'll put British Jingoism in Your Sporr...

Logic's Rock: By Jingo! We'll put British Jingoism in Your Sporr...: You'd think they'd learn. First David Cameron called for   "a commemoration [of World War 1] that, like the Diamond Jubilee...

Thursday, 2 January 2014

Munguin's Republic: AND NOW THE REAL NEW YEAR MESSAGE... AND THE RESUL...

Munguin's Republic: AND NOW THE REAL NEW YEAR MESSAGE... AND THE RESUL...: So, now I got the right year... The results of the poll are as follows. 1) Most impressive  politician at  Holyrood : Alex Salmond....

Munguin's Republic: THE MESSAGE FOR THE PRIVILEGED FROM THE VERY PRIVI...

Munguin's Republic: THE MESSAGE FOR THE PRIVILEGED FROM THE VERY PRIVI...: David Cameron has called upon Scots to stay in UK while warning that there is still difficult work ahead when it comes to repairing the e...