by The Editor | Aug 20, 2017 | Featured, Politics, Uncategorized
For decades, the North Sea oil just off of the Scottish coastline has been a very taboo, topic of discussion when it comes to figures and statistics from Westminster. During the Scottish Referendum campaign, the Scottish National Party explained to the electorate...
by The Editor | Aug 17, 2017 | Politics
WARNING…… What Follows is extremely long and massively contentious “By far the greatest bulk of the political ‘education,’ which in this case one may rightly define with the word ” propaganda,’ is the work of the press. It is the press above all else that carries out...
by The Editor | Aug 16, 2017 | Politics
Lovely! It’s great that Common Weal is doing this work. But it would be unfortunate, to say the least, if the question at the heart of the constitutional issue were to be obscured by a plethora of policy options. That core question is not about what kind of social...
by The Editor | Aug 16, 2017 | Politics
I saw this today and had a wee laugh, but also a chill went up my back, is Scotland that stupid, sadly it might be. It appears that Colonel Tankstraddler (thanks Pete A Bell for that name) is telling her MSPs and MPs to prepare for government. Apparently the Colonel...
by The Editor | Aug 15, 2017 | Politics
Well? What are you waiting for? Some magical independence fairy to come along and wave a magic wand, or the Ghosts of Bruce and Wallace and Calgacus to appear among us and drive us on? It is not going to happen. Nor is it going to happen if we sit on our bahookies and...
