On 11th May the Herald publish another article on the McCrone reports, and there were a number. [read the article] These reports keep cropping up like a bad penny but for a very good reason. The ‘bad penny’ hasn’t dropped yet. There are still people in Scotland, who call themselves Scots but they seem to lack the Scottish ‘gift’ of…
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This Makes me Mad
My main focus is Scotland’s referendum. However, some things make me mad. For many years I have felt that much of the world’s ill are down to the UN. By that I mean the weakness and bureaucracy of the UN has turned them into disaster viewers or in the extreme, genocide participants. Consider this example. In 1995 the ‘Siege of…
Scotland’s referendum – the problem that cannot be solved
Since the dawn of time man (and woman always implied) have been faced with problems. Some have been fixed quickly other have taken decades or generations. Sooner or later, we have solved our problems no matter how big, how complex or how costly. You could even say ‘there isn’t a problem, man can’t solve. But you would be wrong. There…
Scotland’s Referendum – The New Scottish Enlightenment, the Enlightenment of the People
When I was at school in Glasgow, history was a kind of non subject. Being a bit of a rebel and not always ‘well behaved?’ I was often punished by being sent to the history room or the school library where I was given a history book to read. This happened several times when I refused to play football for the…