Daibhidh: October 2015

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Macwhirter: Tracking Scotland's peaceful revolution - Newsnet.scot

DIY Independence: Pondering the route to Indyref 2 as SNP plays softly, softly on timing - Newsnet.scot

Common Space - British nationalist found guilty of independence referendum violence threats

Wings Over Scotland | Your time is precious

Talkin’ bout Kezia’s genertaion « Wee Ginger Dug

Munguin's Republic: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE LAST FEW DAYS: CHINA, NORTH...

Munguin's Republic: RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE LAST FEW DAYS: CHINA, NORTH...: The last day of the charade that is the Golden Era celebration will be over today. After Mr Xi takes a trip to what the English call &qu...

The Ponsonby Post - Now on BBC Scotland - The Great British Propaganda Machine

Take a fresh look

Wings Over Scotland | God save your mad parade

Poems aye, right!: The Massacre of Glencoe

Poems aye, right!: The Massacre of Glencoe: Here are two poems written, one after the other in February 2012, commemorating the Massacre of Glencoe, about which you can read here . You...

SCOT goes POP!: Purity tests are EVEL

SCOT goes POP!: Purity tests are EVEL: You might have seen by now that some of the Usual Suspects (David Torrance, Chris Deerin, etc) are drooling over a blogpost by the Yes voter...

John McDonnell Says The SNP Is "The Real Enemy" In Scotland - BuzzFeed News

Plans to cut short remembrance ceremony scrapped after pressure from SNP - Telegraph

Secret memo gave guidelines on abuse of Mau Mau in 1950s | World news | The Guardian

Rugby World Cup: Greig Laidlaw 'humbled' to be on Player of the Year shortlist | Sport | The National

Angry Salmond: There can be no reasoning with pitiless Gideon, the economic Terminator | Comment | The National

SCOT goes POP!: The Tories only have two options for exacting reve...

SCOT goes POP!: The Tories only have two options for exacting reve...: I'll be genuinely fascinated to see what wheeze the Tory government are going to come up with to prevent any future defeats in the Lords...

SCOT goes POP!: Redefining Supreme

SCOT goes POP!: Redefining Supreme: Did you know that the UK Supreme Court's role in Scots Law was slightly trimmed back a few weeks ago? I must admit it had escaped my no...

Friday, 30 October 2015

Britain should have followed Iceland example, jailed corrupt bankers – Scottish MSP — RT UK

The Sound of Silence (Original Version from 1964)

Wings Over Scotland | The sunshine of socialism

Jeremy Corbyn Wants To Use The "Energy Of The Referendum" To Beat The SNP - BuzzFeed News

SNP MPs at Westminster are giving their £7,000 pay rise to charity | UK Politics | News | The Independent

Julie Fowlis - 'Biodh an Deoch'

Julie Fowlis Puirt-a-beul set (three Uist songs)

Jeremy Corbyn offers "the sunshine of socialism" but will Scotland warm to it?

Common Space - Dan Vevers: Scottish Labour and the terrifying silence

Scottish Labour will struggle to emerge from its political wilderness | Voices | The Independent

Energy Voice | Apache makes significant discoveries in the UK North Sea of up to 70million barrels - News for the Oil and Gas Sector

Jeremy Corbyn comes to Scotland and discovers he has nothing to say - Spectator Blogs

Labour scraps contest to find Holyrood 2016 Sturgeon challenger amid concerns over candidate shortlist (From Evening Times)

Scottish Labour Campaign Video Misspells Generation Prompting Merciless Responses Online

SCOT goes POP!: Has Corbyn made things worse for Scottish Labour?

SCOT goes POP!: Has Corbyn made things worse for Scottish Labour?: I missed the first half of Question Time because I was at the World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow (and I can tell you that the manage...

Thursday, 29 October 2015

First Minister's Questions - Scottish Parliament: 29th October 2015

A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland

Tarff Advertiser: Wednesday ..... I can never get the hang of Wednes...

Tarff Advertiser: Wednesday ..... I can never get the hang of Wednes...: Here we are in the middle of the week and no one can actually decide if the failed parliamentary system at Westminster has had an attack of...

Edward Snowden Could Be Granted European Asylum After 'Extraordinary' EU Parliament Vote

David Cameron says the Conservatives are the party of equality - don't make me laugh

Scotland has the most inequitable land ownership in the west. Why? | UK news | The Guardian

SCOT goes POP!: David Torrance has a tattoo of Oliver Letwin on hi...

SCOT goes POP!: David Torrance has a tattoo of Oliver Letwin on hi...: I did hear on the grapevine that David Torrance raised a few eyebrows with his comments about the votes in the House of Lords the other nigh...

Wee Ginger Dug: Kezia Dugdale’s new tilt for freedom is a futile bid | Comment | The National

'Michelle Mone needs to get with real world', says mum who attacked tax credit cuts on Question Time - Mirror Online

Robertson’s tenacity praised | Politics | The National

PFI ‘timebomb’ fear in Falkirk as SNP eyes council win | News | The National

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Bateman: The BBC's new Scottish news head will have to prove himself quickly - Newsnet.scot

SNP MP Mhairi Black grills Tory axeman Ian Duncan Smith about link between welfare cuts and food bank use - Daily Record

Scottish independence: Salmond invokes Bruce - Beta Scotsman

Scotland's Future and Scottish Fisheries

Baroness Meacher slaps down Tory MP over tax credits

Tax credits: Tories promise ‘rapid review’ after Lords reject cuts — RT UK

SNP's Pete Wishart Says There Will Never Again Be A Scottish UK Prime Minister

Fòram na Gàidhlig • View topic - Beginner asks about "tu"

BBC Scotland appoints Gary Smith as new head of news - BBC News

JK Rowling explains refusal to join cultural boycott of Israel | Books | The Guardian

Jim Murphy seeks clause four rewrite to stop Labour decline in Scotland | Politics | The Guardian

Beri-beri found in Scottish beer drinkers: archive, 27 October 1982 | Society | The Guardian

Wings Over Scotland | Words without meanings

The National view: Police Scotland’s new chief must rise to the toughest challenges | Comment | The National

Wings Over Scotland | The wishful believers

Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Constitutional necrosis « Wee Ginger Dug

Red Crow: Native American Prophecy

Catalan 'independence declaration' to trigger showdown with Madrid | World news | The Guardian

Bella Caledonia the news where you are

Wings Over Scotland | The sides line up

Wings Over Scotland | Did ye, aye?

Kez 'The Blunder Years'

SCOT goes POP!: Gideon Through The Looking Glass

Monday, 26 October 2015

Sturgeon vows to be 'most accessible' first minister ever - BBC News

The Coming Revolution in U.S. Naval Strategy | The National Interest

The Coming Revolution in U.S. Naval Strategy | The National Interest #In the footseps of John Paul Jones

Bush Lapdog Blair Can’t Even Apologize Correctly for Destabilizing the Middle East | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

What's Labour Together?

What's Labour Together? #Vacuous drivel @back-to-front democracy

Wings Over Scotland | Kezia Dugdale Fact Check, part 674

Westminster’s nineteenth nose-job « Wee Ginger Dug

WESTMINSTER’S SCOTLAND PROBLEM IS GETTING WORSE | petewishart

To September And Beyond: Xi

SCOT goes POP!: A Very Portuguese Coup

Alan Cumming joins Open University graduates at Usher Hall - Beta Scotsman

Monthly column from Lanark & Hamilton East MP Angela Crawley - Daily Record

Gerry Hassan: It is sheer political vandalism - and probably the beginning of the end for the UK - Gerry Hassan - Daily Record

Alex Salmond with Andrew Neil - This Week. Brexit campaign - or YES?

Alex Salmond on the nuclear issues and AS William McNeilly's safety alle...

Adam Price Speech at Plaid Conference

Mae'r Parti Drosodd: Darllediad Gwleidyddol Plaid Cymru Hydref 2015

Common Space - McDash Reports: Blair was committed to botox in 2002; Alex Salmond to be next Bond; Joubert late for an appointment

There are no ‘UK political parties’ any longer. We need to get over it. | Eric Joyce

Eric Joyce | My View

A real Scottish Labour Party? | Eric Joyce

Wings Over Scotland | The Highlander Doctrine

Dundee to host first stop on tour warning of dangers of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership | News | The National

Saturday, 24 October 2015

BBC News - Labour MP Douglas Alexander rules out deal with SNP

The Charge of the Lite Brigade | Grouse Beater

Wings Over Scotland | A poverty of imagination

Corporate Media & BBC Scottish NHS Propaganda Debunked

Wings Over Scotland | The Illogical Song

Flashback to 2011: British press glorifies savage assassination of President Gaddafi by NATO’s mercenaries | the real SyrianFreePress Network

Bella Caledonia the news where you are

Closing Time | Scottish Independence 2014 Blog

Wings Over Scotland | Massive oil leak discovered

Wings Over Scotland | The blunderbuss

Marquess of Salisbury: The UK is barely 'hanging on' to Scotland - Telegraph

SCOT goes POP!: Could the Lib Dems win even fewer seats next year?

ALL THINGS EVEL | petewishart

Peter A Bell: Kenneth Roy is a f***ing bladder!

Mhairi Black: We need welfare powers at the very least | Comment | The National

The BBC is worryingly close to becoming an arm of the Government, says its own former chair | UK Politics | News | The Independent

EVEL isn't about Scotland. It's about locking Labour out of power in the UK | Voices | The Independent

EVEL HAS LANDED: 'Blocking Scottish MPs from airport decision would be like stopping English MPs voting on Trident' | News | The National

Sturgeon: The NHS is better off in our hands | Politics | The National

MP may be off committee in new Evel rules | Politics | The National

Friday, 23 October 2015

MPs back English-only votes as SNP warns it will trigger 'end of union' - Telegraph

Interview: Saltire-waving sisters believe the time is right for indyref2 | News | The National

Britain's West Lothian question and Scottish independence analysis - Business Insider

UK has given up but we’re backing steel say MSPs - The Scotsman - Linkis.com

SNP comment on McDonnell speech | Scotland-US

Willie Rennie to make plea to independence supporters - BBC News - Linkis.com

Lallands Peat Worrier: What does EVEL actually do?

Wings Over Scotland | The triumph of EVEL

Thursday, 22 October 2015

A rapidily disuniting kingdom « Wee Ginger Dug

Scotland – The Only Country Ever to Vote Yes To Being Governed by Another Nation – Well You Asked For It – So here’s a Wee Look Forward to What May Be the Future | caltonjock

Justin Trudeau: A few Scottish things you probably didn't know about Canada's new PM - Press and Journal

SNP MPs 'need to be on their planes back' to Scotland - Westminster

Wings Over Scotland | Two kinds of lies

BBC's Andrew Neil Propaganda Debunked (Full)

Wings Over Scotland | Vile abuse and harmless banter

David Cameron may create new peers to get tax credit cuts into law | Daily Mail Online

Deeply sinister

Here we go!

Her Majesty’s Press /

Stuart's Daily Digest

The National View, October 22: Millionaire Cameron’s ‘delight’ at tax credit cuts will leave a poor legacy | Comment | The National

Scottish independence: Poll shows that more Scots would vote Yes than at last year's referendum | Scottish independence | News | The Independent

Labour's own research shows Scots party faces grim future | Politics | The National

Wings Over Scotland | Fiddling the figures

David Cameron dismisses UN inquiry into DWP's treatment of disabled people | UK Politics | News | The Independent

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Scotland and Wales unite to kill the Tories' anti Trade union bill | The Canary

26 bankers already sentenced to a combined 74 years in prison | Icelandmag

Evel will let the English 'control their destiny', claims Grayling | PoliticsHome.com

New laws to allow spies to hack into smartphones and computers ‘to be introduced in the coming weeks’ | News | Lifestyle | The Independent

Tax credits: SNP and Conservative MPs clash over government cuts

Wishart: Tories must think again on ‘dog’s breakfast’ Evel | Politics | The National

Alex Salmond: ‘Divided’ Labour will push Scotland to another independence vote | Scotland-US

Award has Salmond in the pink | News | The National

Richard Arkless MP Attacks 'Smear Campaign' By Scottish Sunday Express

Britain clings to its bombing addiction with the weary rationale of a junkie | Frankie Boyle | Comment is free | The Guardian

Aristocrats, tycoons and billionaires ... the people who really own Scotland - Scotland / News & Views / The Sunday Post

Letters: Reports of the SNP's demise have been greatly exaggerated (From Herald Scotland)

Independence is an issue that just won’t go away - Beta Scotsman

Wings Over Scotland | That happened quietly

Wings Over Scotland | Tiny Correction Watch

SCOT goes POP!: Canadian TV fails to learn the lesson of the 2008 ...

SCOT goes POP!: Canadian TV fails to learn the lesson of the 2008 ...: At this time last night I was watching a live-stream of the Canadian election results programme on CBC. It was mostly a pleasurable experien...

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Tarff Advertiser: Blowing the whistle ...

Irish Whiskey Awards 2015 | Potstilled

A Woman Of Principle With Ambitions For Scotland | Tartantights's Blog

'Harper awoke a sleeping giant': First Nations break election records | Election 2015

Scottish Labour should have free vote on independence, says former leader | Politics | The Guardian

Podcast: The 'Scottish martyr' Thomas Muir and our long history with claret and port... - Newsnet.scot

The Vow DELIVERED: Read the full Smith Commission report here - Daily Record

A rammy, a swerry word, and abuse « Wee Ginger Dug

SNP split over Nicola Sturgeon referendum strategy - Telegraph

La foto més desafortunada de Societat Civil Catalana? | VilaWeb

Nicola Sturgeon turns down invitation to palace banquet in honour of Chinese premier Xi Jinping | News | The National

West of Scotland Conservative party conference coming to Largs (From Largs and Millport Weekly News)

Monday, 19 October 2015

How to identify a Troll and what to do about one | Scotland-US

Late drama provides heartbreaking end to Scotland’s wondrous World Cup finale | Sport | The Guardian

Craig Joubert ‘made mistake’ awarding Australia penalty against Scotland | Sport | The Guardian

Wings Over Scotland | Person swears on internet

SCOT goes POP!: SNP lead by 32% in the first Scot Goes Pop Poll of Polls for the Holyrood election

Peter A Bell: Should we be nice to No voters?

Sunday, 18 October 2015

George Kerevan: A super-sized conference for a super-sized party | Comment | The National

Carolyn Leckie: Nicola Sturgeon is right to be cautious about calling for a second referendum | Comment | The National

The Scotsman - Monday 19 October 2015 - ThingLink

J’espere /

Wings Over Scotland | A failure of briefing

Nicola - First Minister of Scotland - SNP Conference October 2015

A ponte entre Galiza e Escocia // The bridge between Galiza and Scotland : Nicola Sturgeon - First Minister of Scotland - (Full speech) SNP Conference October 2015 via @moridura

Anger at SNP call to ‘control broadcasting’ - The Scotsman

Second poll shows no Corbyn bounce in Scotland | Left Foot Forward

SNP conference 2015: Minister wants Scotland excluded from union bill - BBC News

Nicola Sturgeon’s stance pleases everyone… for now | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian

Saturday, 17 October 2015

Final Day - SNP Annual National Conference 2015 on Livestream

Mind the gap. SNP realise that Scotland will not be able to reverse Tory welfare cuts. | Iain Macwhirter

Ten other things I hate about Westminster « Wee Ginger Dug

To September And Beyond: The Wicked Witch of Edinburgh West

Splodgenessabounds - Porky Scratchings

'Arrogant bastard, Hitler's clone, Tory swine': The words SNP members use to describe David Cameron | UK Politics | News | The Independent

How #BBCbias & the English Press just don't get Nicola or the SNP on the...

SNP SUCESS STICKS IN NICK ROBINSONS THROAT!

POLL: Police Scotland consider using Gaelic name and logo on all cars and uniforms - Press and Journal

SNP’s Westminster leader: PM has no answers over Syria | Politics | News | London Evening Standard

Ged A Sheol Mi Air M' Aineol - Julie Fowlis

Julie Fowlis Jigs and Reels

SNP will not join Project Fear mark II with Labour and Tories (From Evening Times)

A return to the Lockerbie bombing - Al Arabiya News

The strangest thing about the SNP conference is how normal it is - Spectator Blogs

Wings Over Scotland | The one-party street

SNP conference diary | News | The National

SNP members vote unanimously against UK military intervention in Syria | News | The National

Friday, 16 October 2015

Victory for Our Land campaign and members as land reform motion is rejected | Politics | The National

Approach of Home Office to nationality case “astonishing and grotesque” rules High Court

Nicola Sturgeon on Lockerbie, welfare and the EU

Westminster blocks bid to uncover Spain indyref advice | Scotland-US

BBC accused of 'lies' over Scotland politics coverage - Milngavie Herald

Wings Over Scotland | With permission

Alex Salmond: Stuart Rose lacks the 'vision' to lead campaign to keep Britain in the EU | UK Politics | News | The Independent

Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Doh! Wrong Again!

University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Law - Our staff - Adam Tomkins

SNP’s Mhairi Black hits out at Tory austerity in conference speech - The Scotsman

SNP conference: Jeremy Corbyn is a non-starter in Scotland but as for a second independence referendum...

SCOT goes POP!: Sturgeon's road-map for the next referendum

Sheppard slams ‘monstrous deceit’ over more powers - Edinburgh Evening News

Ferry deal worth £97m signed for Ferguson's Clyde shipyard (From Evening Times)

Cruel Britannia: a secret history of torture | openDemocracy

BBC worried about abuse at SNP conference - Telegraph

Wings Over Scotland | How politics works

SNP pledge to force early Westminster vote over Trident question | News | The National

Patrick Harvie: Why 2015 is feeling too much like 1984 | Comment | The National

David Cameron Thought 'S**t, We Might Lose' At Scottish Independence Vote, Lord Ashcroft Book Says

Nicola Sturgeon explains how a second independence referendum could be ‘unstoppable’ - Spectator Blogs

SNP will build 50,000 new homes, says Nicola Sturgeon | Politics | The National

Sturgeon was right: Labour ‘are unreliable and unelectable’, poll finds | News | The National

AUDIENCE MEMBER REMINDS TORY OF HER PARTIES LIES

QT AUDIENCE MEMBER REMINDS TORY OF HER PARTIES’S LIES | A TRUE INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND

CGW: Scotland camp ahead of their QF against Australia | SKY TV

Nicola Sturgeon warns Brexit would make second independence referendum unstoppable | Students and Young People For Europe

SNP vow to build 50,000 affordable homes 'not ambitious enough' (From Herald Scotland)

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Wings Over Scotland | Timewaster wastes time

Further Benefit Cuts Could Trigger Another Independence Referendum, Warns The SNP's John Swinney

Rugby World Cup: SRU draft in legal experts over bans | Sport | The National

Scotland Office tells Whitehall of conversations between Holyrood ministers and foreign diplomats | Politics | The National

Sturgeon: New Independence Vote If People Want - Yahoo News UK

Sturgeon will not rule out second referendum if polls show support | News | Scotland Decides

Former SNP press chief to write weekly column for Sunday Times | Media | The Guardian

Craig Murray » Blog Archive » Nicola Sturgeon is Wrong: Let Unionists Vote for Unionists

Lallands Peat Worrier: Our "One Party State"...

Lallands Peat Worrier: Our "One Party State"...: " One party state " Definition: relating to or denoting a system of government where only one political party is permitted. ...