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Support Scotland’s independent media

Posted on 24/07/2017 by

The following is an excerpt from my latest article for iScot Magazine. You can read the full article, called ‘Car crash’, in the August edition. Independent media is hugely important to Scotland. Please consider supporting iScot Magazine by subscribing and/or … Continue reading →

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Turning the tables on the Tories

Posted on 15/04/2017 by

I fully appreciate what Mhairi Black is saying here. I totally understand her reasons for urging us not to use our votes in the council elections as a plebiscite on a new independence referendum. There’s only one problem with this. … Continue reading →

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Here we go…

Posted on 14/03/2017 by

Well she did it.  Stealing thunder from Theresa Mayhem’s expected announcement on triggering Article 50, Nicola Sturgeon has announced that she will be seeking Holyrood’s permission to hold a second referendum for Scottish independence. So what now? The first thing … Continue reading →

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How ‘special’ are journalists?

Posted on 18/01/2017 by

Let’s just gloss over Tom Gordon’s obscenely distorted representation of the whole “Daisley gagging” affair that prompted a veritable torrent of self-righteous hysteria from the mainstream media. Suffice it to say that statements from STV management very effectively puncture the … Continue reading →

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The same old song

Posted on 11/07/2016 by

When The Scotsman refers to “economic and fiscal ” realities what it is actually talking about is the British nationalist propaganda that it helped to promulgate as part of Project Fear. The tragedy of the propagandist is the folly of … Continue reading →

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They’re out to destroy our NHS

Posted on 12/06/2016 by

The British nationalist propaganda machine’s denigration of NHS Scotland is relentless. There is no issue relating to the day-to-day running of our health service which is so trivial or mundane that it cannot be represented by the British parties and … Continue reading →

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How to appear stupid

Posted on 17/03/2016 by

An abiding, and betimes perplexing, feature of Scotland’s constitutional debate has been the willingness – even eagerness – of unionist commentators to make absolute fools of themselves in the name of defending the ruling elites of the British state. It … Continue reading →

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