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...
Tagged: Boris Johnson
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...
UK set to emulate Mauritania?
At a press conference at the conclusion of the Nato 70th anniversary leaders’ meeting, Boris Johnson was asked whether he had made it clear to Donald Trump that the NHS would definitely not be...
Pity British voters
“A serial liar. A campaign of online disinformation. The risk of foreign meddling. Sound familiar?” An article in the New York Times – Britain’s Dirty Election, by Peter Geoghegan and Mary Fitzgerald – lays...
Fair play “a concept beyond his embrace”.
“Johnson’s behaviour is deliberate. It is intended to be offensive. He thinks cheating acceptable. He is deliberately contemptuous. And fair play is a concept that appears beyond his embrace.” An excoriating piece on Johnson...
Why is John Lamont ashamed to be a Conservative?
Tory candidates in Scotland are hiding their party allegiance in their election literature and it looks like a national strategy to save their seats. Clearly they think promoting any connection with the Conservative Party...
