by The Editor | Sep 6, 2017 | Politics
A vote for Scottish independence in 2014 would have ripped a hole in the space-time continuum and ushered in the age of the undead, a former Master of the Royal Dressing-up Box has claimed. Lord Jeremiah of Doom said that the “ripple effects” of Scotland becoming a...
by The Editor | Sep 4, 2017 | Politics
Anas Sarwar, British Unionist and Scottish Labour MSP and former British Labour MP, is standing for the branch managers job at Scottish Labour. The 600th leader in five years or something or other and you know what, I hope he wins, I really do. Anas Sarwar is...
by The Editor | Sep 3, 2017 | Politics
Whatever his other qualities, Iain Macwhirter is a journalist in the British tradition. Hence his tendency to echo the cosy consensus of the London-based media. And his dutiful adherence to another facet of the British journalistic tradition, the prompt rehabilitation...
by The Editor | Sep 2, 2017 | Politics
Of Friends and Foe and Felons | Some thoughts on online and other abuse and responses to it No one who watched No More Boys and Girls | Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? on BBC 1 recently can deny that there is still a lot to do to ensure that our genitals at birth do not...
by The Editor | Sep 2, 2017 | Politics
I try my best not to impose my views on my daughter. I want her to make up her own mind, to question authority (to be honest sometimes I have been too successful in that) but we do talk about what’s going on when I go to meetings, demos etc. She comes along only if...
