Month: November 2014

Proud?

Someone once said,’The British Empire will defend itself to the very last Scottish soldier’.  This is just one of a multitude of insults levelled against our cousins.  OK, just a bit of satire, but there is more than a grain of truth in some of the insults [http://www.insults.net/html/world/england.html]. Remembrance Sunday brought this home, when the BBC presented the list of…

Thinking out loud

I suppose I was an Independence activist up to 18 September.  On the 19 September I went into denial.  Fortunately, that only lasted about a day.  I quickly realised that I had fallen for the oldest trick in the ‘political manual of subversion’ the ‘false sense of security’ trap.  This realisation turned my denial into anger pointing mainly inward.  I…