HAPPY HOGMANAY!

In Scotland New year is probably a more important celebration than christmas. As well as Christmas presents there is a tradition of ‘first-footing’, which means being the first person round to someones house after 12 on the 1st of January – you should also bring a gift when you do this. We even have a [...]

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit – by Half Man Half Biscuit (lyrics below) There was one of the gang, who had Scalextric and because of that he thought he was better than you. Every day after school, You’d go around there to play it, Hoping to compete for some [...]

TALKING KKK-RAP

All through the story the immigrants came The Gael and the Pict, the Angle and Dane From Pakistan, England and from the Ukraine We’re all Scotland’s story and we’re all worth the same (From ‘Scotland’s Story’ by the Proclaimers) Some of the KKK propaganda cites Scotland as having the ‘racial purity’ that they long for. [...]

“UNLIKE YOU, WE HAVE NO ILLUSIONS”

An excellent article from John Pilger in the Guardian… Left for dead by New Labour, liberal Britain must urgently fight back Blair and his cult have wrecked the very beliefs millions thought they were voting for. The time for direct action is now The former Murdoch retainer Andrew Neil has described James Murdoch, the heir [...]

INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Monty Python classic – Marx was claiming it was offside (each part about 2 minutes).

A FACT

I can’t remember who I got this from so thanks to whoever it was but I just wanted to reprint it… Price of a share of Halliburton stock: March 19, 2003: $20.50 March 18, 2007: $64.12 (adjusted for a split in 2006) Who stands to benefit from Iraq? Well, as if you didn’t know, there [...]

IN BED

Apologies for not answering comments and emails but I don’t have net at home at the moment and I have been a bit sick this week. In the course of being sick I have done what I usually do in such circumstances which is get myself to bed and watch a whole lot of documentaries. Some of [...]

THE SIDESHOW

In Rob Newman’s ‘History of Oil’ show he commented that the extraction and burning of the fossil fuels that are still left in the ground ‘would make the mere collapse of industrial capitalism seem like a sideshow bagatelle.’ George Monbiot developed the theme a little in the Guardian today… The real answer to climate change [...]

VOMIT

An old photo and a borrowed line but really…some things make you think that there isn’t enough vomit in the world…

A PRE-CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM OUR BEST FRIENDS

We the undersigned dogs have a special request. Don’t misunderstand us, we like you humans – that is why we hang out with you a lot. You only have to look to see how happy we are when you come back from work. Nevertheless, there is something we wish you would stop doing, and this special time [...]