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The Bidding Ring.
The varying offers of additional devolved powers reveal rather a lot about the potential donors of these powers.Now, I should say at this point that everything that emerges from the mouths of our...
View ArticleThe Facts You Need; The Lies You Don't.
I got an unwelcome piece of mail today from ‘Better Together’. Entitled ‘The Facts You Need’, it was in fact a tissue of untruths, deliberate deceptions, scaremongering based on flawed analysis, and...
View ArticleWhy Davidson's Offer is Probably Meaningless.
I'll give Ruth Davidson this; political tyro she may be, but she knows how to give short change with the best of them.After the brouhaha of her announcement that the Scottish Parliament would be given...
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B & Q, Banks, and Better Together Bullshit
Remember when Vince Cable said that if Scotland voted for independence, RBoS would inevitably move its’ HQ to London and leave Scotland?Yep, it was one of his more bizarre announcements, and I’m...
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The BBC Is The Real News Now.
Oooookaaaayyyyy, we are moving into strange and surreal worlds with the seemingly never ending flow of bizarre tales of the unexpected from BBC Scotland.This publicly funded broadcaster, which, myth...
View ArticleThere May Be A Precedent or Seventy Six for Sterling Currency Union.
We frequently hear from the Better Together mob about how a currency union between Scotland and the rUK would be impossible.Here's a list of the countries who have previously achieved the impossible in...
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Barclays Commits to an Independent Scotland.
Antony Jenkins, Chief Executive of Barclays, stuck his head above the parapet earlier this year, and confirmed that his bank would work with and in an independent Scotland.This came during a period of...
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Bildt in Westminster?
A report on the Beeb's website today demonstrates quite clearly that Swedish politicians can be quite as ignorant, hysterical and misinformed as those in Better Together.Carl Bildt, who is a former...
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The New Statesman, UK Style.
It really can't be easy being Alistair Darling these days. After all, a respected former Chancellor who has successfully avoided responsibility for his mistakes, and who is regarded as a respected...
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A Pyrrhic Victory in Newark
Much of the media coverage of the Conservative victory in the Newark by-election focuses on the defeat of UKIP by the Tories.The Telegraph, for example, leads with the conceit that the Tories have...
View ArticleThe Price of Union
The ‘No’ campaign seems fond of bandying around spurious figures about how much it will cost individual Scots to become independent, and how much we will gain in financial terms if we stay in the...
View ArticleThe Dialectic of the Telegraph.
Oh boy.I must share this with you, if only as an example of just how bad journalism can get.Sketch: Barack Obama bullies ScotlandAs Scottish nationalists have made clear many times, to oppose...
View ArticleCreative Headlines from the Scotsman.
Here's a good one for you."Scottish independence: one in seven face poverty"It's from today's "Scotsman", and it's about the most disingenuous, dishonest headline you're going to see until, well,...
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Andy Murray.
I genuinely have a lot of sympathy for Andy Murray as an individual.Having been well and truly abused by the nutcase fringe in England for his 'anyone but England' remark prior to the 2006 World Cup, a...
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A Slogan for Negativity.
Today, the unionist campaign made a serious error of judgement.They actually let the moggy out of the bag and came up with a slogan which honestly encapsulated their campaign.Having had 'Better...
View ArticleRaising Our Sights.
There we have it. Certain sportspeople and public figures are in favour of the union.No shit, Sherlock?As these people have made their names, their fame and their fortune under the auspices of the UK,...
View ArticleWhy Campbell Gunn Should Not Resign.
I see that Claire Lally has refused to accept Campbell Gunn's apology. There is nothing more he can, or should, do. If the 'No Thanks' brigade want him to resign over a minor error of fact, then...
View ArticleWhy I Hae Me Doots About Unionists Bearing Gifts
Today (16th June) we are getting headlines on the BBC that additional powers for the Scottish Parliament are front and centre on the unionists’ agendas, should Scotland be daft enough and scared enough...
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A Stirling Tale.
I'm indebted to Craig Murray for confirming something I suspected on Saturday afternoon.You see, I work on Saturdays, and, as I work in Stirling, I took good care to avoid the area around the Armed...
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A Lack of Guile in the Gyle.
So, it's today, the day after my youngest's graduation (MA Spanish and French, Distinction in Spoken Spanish, since you ask), and a very successful event it was, especially as my daughters now know to...
View ArticleHeads the SNP Wins, Tails Labour Loses
It was not the simple fact of Johann Lamont’s departure as leader of the Labour Party in Scotland which was damaging.The real destruction occurred in the effects of her explanation for her...
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A Very Canny Move Indeed
The SNP leader (and First Minister) in waiting, Nicola Sturgeon, hasn’t wasted any time in manoeuvring for position in advance of the EU Referendum, as promised by the Tories and UKIP after the...
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Sarwar's Scotland.
I watched Anas Sarwar giving it laldy last night about Nicola Sturgeon’s “quadruple lock” initiative in which she asserted that the four home nations would have to individually reject the EU, if the UK...
View ArticleWhen Will Labour EVER Learn?
On Good Morning Scotland today, Simon Pia, former spin doctor to Labour in Scotland, demonstrates just how self regarding and inward looking his party is.The resignation of Anas Sarwar was, he said a...
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Effigies and Xenophobia in The Deep South
November 5th is now a receding memory, thankfully. But let’s look back at what was one of the big news items surrounding bonfire night, namely the creation of two effigies of Alex Salmond by the...
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