The Somnolence of the (succulent) Lambs

The supposed revelations about Rangers FC in the Daily Record this morning are in truth anything but revelations. Almost, if not quite all, of the information has been readily available for may months. Thanks to the work of the Rangers Tax Case blog, Phil MacGiollabhain, more recently the Random Thoughts re Scots Law blog, and [...]

Rejected Unionist Referendum Question Proposals

The wording of “Do you agree that Scotland should be an Independent Country?” caused some consternation as being unfair in some circles. It is therefore only right that we look at some of the alternatives that were put forward by unionist parties… Would you like all these puppies to be poisoned, or would you prefer [...]

Beaten To The Punch

I had been about to post the video of Paxman’s shameful interview with Alex Salmond last night but Bella Caledonia (with the excellent title of We Pay For This) and plenty of other notable bloggers beat me to the punch. I will put the video on the continuation page below this short article anyway. For many [...]

Burns Writ Large

Literally. I took this photo at the Edinburgh Festival a couple of summers ago…

Film Guide (with free films) – Part 2 – Economics

A few years ago I used to run a biweekly free film showing in the University for anyone who wanted to come along. The films were a mix of documentaries, fiction and  based on true story stuff. I would try to get a guest along to speak too. I thought I would make the list [...]

Electric Avenue – And Then We Take It Higher (Power)

Or the subtitle for this post is Bloody Nora. I found this on the Dangerous Minds blog. This is from a TEXTBOOK.

Political Realities Explained For Children…With Penguins

Now kids, if you watch the little video below you will see 99% penguin. 99% penguin works hard to build his little nest but because he is so busy building that little nest, he cannot see 1% penguin behind him stealing the things he has worked to collect. 1% penguin’s nest looks very good and [...]

Next Month

I very rarely take a stab at writing short stories but over the christmas period I listened to an interview with Neil Gaiman (who I have never ready anything by) and he said that at one time he had been challenged to write  a story with only 247 words. I thought this seemed like an [...]

A Short One

A short funny one in case you missed it…

Ignorance Is Strength

Learn a new language and get a new soul.  – Czech Proverb As an outsider looking at the Republican primaries, it always seems like the best thing we could hope for is the victory of the least obviously mad candidate. He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.  – [...]