Puerile and petty shenanigans
In the same week that Tory MSP Tess White heckled in Holyrood insisting that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish government and its policies were anti-English, meeting notes and WhatsApp messages seen by...
Tagged: Boris Johnson
The Politics of Lies
A link to this excellent article was posted on Twitter. The article deserves a wide readership. “It’s dizzying to live in the UK these days if you have a good memory. Living under the...
Boris Johnson: the PM who set England free
Well, it’s been quite a week. Against all lockdown advice Boris Johnson decided he knew best and flew in to Glasgow airport to lecture the Scots on being good little Unionists. Not that it...
Boris just pulled the pin out
The response from Kenny Farquharson, columnist with the Times in Scotland, said: “Boris just pulled the pin out and sat on the grenade.” So, at a time when former PM Gordon Brown is strutting...
Government by slogan
Dr John Ashton believes we have a government that works though the use of slogans with its most recent causing widespread confusion. Dr Ashton is a British doctor and academic who previously held positions...
How alert are you?
Just before VE day on Friday tabloid headlines screamed the end of lockdown or at least a significant relaxation of it. So feeling justified by the impending end or relaxation, up went the bunting,...
Democracy is not a one-off event
So there we have it. No three page missive setting out why Scotland can’t have a second independence referendum, but a hastily thrown together note full of lies. If this is the basis for...
The Power of Scotland
Another brief but powerful image from the wonderful Phantom Power films. Today we’re not voting for independence. Although we certainly have the resources, knowledge and skills to be a very successful nation as the...
When home isn’t home
According to an article in Business Insider, Boris Johnson has vowed to stop European Union migrants from treating Britain “as their own country” if he wins this week’s general election. The prime minister has...
Working the Continent’s canapé circuit
Until the general election was called, a few posts could be seen on social media complaining about the SNP’s downgrading of independence as it marshalled its arguments against Brexit (a Brexit that will devastate...
