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I'll definitely vote YES - but I can't get excited over AV. 2 Apr 2011 | 10:08 am
I have just read about a friend’s serious, intelligent wrestling-match over the question of deciding how best to use her genuinely divisible single (or crude, two-part) vote for the Scottish election ...
The modern Scotsman, Italy and the outside of Wandsworth Jail 15 Dec 2010 | 12:04 pm
I think it is deeply ironic that the Scotsman, on 7th April 1840, was the first newspaper in the world to publish a (controversial) account of the ice ages (from the utterly fascinating, unknown Scott...
2 Party Systems - An open letter to an American chum. 8 Nov 2010 | 04:47 am
Dear Kev, You've got to ask yourself if political systems like yours and ours, with space for only two parties are sensible systems. I think you need electoral reform in the US to eradicate the duopo...
Canada applies to join EU 28 Oct 2010 | 09:34 am
A very wise Canadian friend suggested that she didn’t mind paying her taxes, and appreciated the work that public servants did. She wanted her taxes to pay for daycare and free tertiary tuition. She w...
Let's crush this tuition fees rebellion 13 Oct 2010 | 07:26 am
The rebellion inside the Liberal Democrats is not one against the acceptance of Lord Browne’s report on funding higher education in England . It is a rebellion by Liberal Democrat Ministers in the U...
Scottish Lib Dems at Westminster 12 Oct 2010 | 09:08 am
Angularity wonders how Scottish Lib Dem ministers in the UK Parliament will vote on raising tuition fees in England. In Scotland we - the Scottish Liberal Democrats in the Scottish Government - proudl...
Tuition Fees 11 Oct 2010 | 04:30 am
My good friend Greg Mulholland has announced on Radio 4 that he will not vote for tuition fees to be raised. Well said Greg! It was one of our saddest days when Westminster rubber stamped Blair's dec...
Waste your life 11 Oct 2010 | 04:27 am
If you want to seriously waste your life, spend as much of it as possible accumulating wealth and material things, constantly worrying about money and status, and comparing your possessions and fortun...
Introducing angularity 11 Oct 2010 | 12:31 am
This is my first ever blog posting. I've spent six months posting thoughts on FB and, although the discipline of using only 420 characters is good in restraining any tendency to wordiness on my part, ...
