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The end! 31 Jan 2013 | 05:42 am
Please note that no one was specifically 'banned' or otherwise excluded from reading this blog over recent days. As I said in the previous post, it was a case of anyone interested opting in to read a ...
Empiricism v idealism 24 Jan 2013 | 03:15 pm
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at the cybernat triumphalism over David Cameron's promise of an EU referendum, which of course underlines their Little Scotlander/Jock McBull-ist attitude towards the ...
Change the subject Mr Salmond, why don't you? 17 Jan 2013 | 06:20 pm
With the SNP on the back foot last year over issues like the currency, membership of Nato and the whole EU debacle, it was perhaps predictable that the party would try to both twist all this round to ...
Irvine Welsh encourages destructive neo-liberalism 14 Jan 2013 | 12:30 pm
Hadn't gotten round to reading Irvine Welsh's recent magnum opus on the independence question (although no doubt articulate, erudite and sometimes compelling, since it was published on Bellyache Caled...
Sanctus Espiritus, is this what we deserve? 6 Jan 2013 | 09:38 am
The adverse publicity arising from Nationalist guru Stephen Noon's recent suggestion that the SNP might suffer an existential crisis in an independent Scotland probably did the independence movement m...
2013: Looks like déjà vu all over again! 28 Dec 2012 | 01:36 pm
It hasn't taken long for things to get back to normal after the predictably brief cessation of hostilities over Christmas, and another short hiatus around the New Year will occur merely to allow a fur...
SNP's Europhilia demonstrates Anglophobia? 19 Dec 2012 | 01:34 pm
(5,000 word post alert!) No peaking, but what does the following quote say about the politics of its author? "I don’t get why others are so hostile to the idea and the reality of a strong, enduring ...
Parking issues 17 Dec 2012 | 07:07 am
What have parking on pavements, the SNP Government's recent consultation on taxis and private hire cars, and the ongoing stushie over an independent Scotland's EU membership got in common? Substantiv...
Barroso's intervention has changed, er, not much 11 Dec 2012 | 12:19 pm
So has the EU Commission president's recent interview and letter fundamentally changed an independent Scotland's position regarding EU membership? Probably not. It was always going to be more about p...
They were telt! 9 Dec 2012 | 01:50 pm
(Very anoraky post alert!) In the past I've submitted well over a couple of hundred pages to official consultations and suchlike, but won't be doing anything like that again. Apart from the fact it f...
