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Tag Archives: Scottish National Party
It’s the little things
This article first appeared in the January 2018 issue of iScot Magazine. Please subscribe to support Scotland’s independent media. We are all the products of small changes. That’s the way evolution works. All life is a testament to the power … Continue reading
A daft proposal
I have the utmost respect for Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp. His ability to make the business and economic case, not only for independence, but for a more progressive and ethical economic model is unparalleled and invaluable. But this stuff about the SNP … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged #Referendum2018, Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp, Scottish National Party, SNP
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Independence or not…
I’m intrigued by this suggestion from Lesley Riddoch. Is it possible? Can the SNP and Scottish Green Party have some kind of joint manifesto? Personally, I remain unconvinced, not out of spite or hatred for either party, far from it. … Continue reading
Majestically deluded
During the first referendum campaign, I identified something that I termed the Hassan-Riddoch Syndrome. A form of posturing pontification that offers little in the way of fresh insight or meaningful analysis but relies instead on an intellectually vacuous and tediously … Continue reading
Redefining failure
The #SNPBAD propaganda campaign having been an abject failure in 2016, a unionist newspaper makes an early start on the next round of grinding negativity; groundless smears, gross misrepresentations and general dishonesty that it hopes will serve the British nationalist … Continue reading
Scottish! Not British!
Nicola Sturgeon has, as we might expect, gone to the very nub of the issue for voters in the coming election. When she refers to the “social contract with the people of Scotland” she is talking about the things which … Continue reading
Dugdale dumps on doctors
Once again British Labour in Scotland takes the pish out of the people of Scotland with ill-thought, half-baked pronouncements that have more to do with grabbing headlines than offering cogent policies. Pretendy wee party loyalists and British nationalist fanatics will … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Kezia Dugdale, NHS Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish National Party
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Let’s talk about independence
Hands up everyone among the 115,000 SNP members who is grateful to Poor Old Cockers for explaining to them why they signed up. Nobody? That’s what I thought. After all who would place any value on the conclusions of someone … Continue reading
Oh, to be a fly on the wall!
There’s a lot of understandable and perfectly justified anger about the BBC Question Time broadcast from Dundee on Thursday 10 March. Even for the BBC, there was some quite remarkably blatant bias on display. Were the preposterously arrogant management of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged BBC, Criticism of the BBC, Scotland, Scottish Labour Party, Scottish National Party
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Rising to the occasion
Even as the Holyrood election campaign is only gathering pace, we have already heard all manner of nonsense from representatives and supporters of the OPIPs (other pro-independence parties) as they are sent into a feeding frenzy by the almost totally … Continue reading