“there comes a point when we have to stop asking permission”
An open letter to the FM of Scotland
alecross1971
History Rhymes
“History never repeats itself but it often rhymes” (Mark Twain, attributed)
Here is the news and here is today’s headline
“Scotland won’t be ignored any longer”
The Overriding Principle
“We weren’t born to follow
Come on and get up off your knees
When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe”
Billy McNeill
“The image of Billy McNeill proudly holding the European Cup is in my mind as much a symbol of the sixties as Ali beating Liston or a young John F Kennedy reaching the Whitehouse.”
Socialism without the politics
“Regular readers of this column will be aware of my love and fascination with the great Scottish manager Bill Shankly”
“They take the wings off us and then mock us for being unable to fly.”
“Ian Blackford and others have been beacons of sanity and collegiate compromise during this whole fiasco but it’s way past the point now where Scotland should be sacrificing itself to help England save itself from itself.”
I Am On Your Side
” A wilful disregard for detail that comes close reckless boredom. Such a person isn’t remotely fit for high office. As my grandfather used to say, such a person isn’t even fit to run Kirkcolm Bowling Club.”
Except for Viewers in Scotland
“it is bizarre that a national broadcaster would serially (and seemingly deliberately) omit the speech of the leader of the third largest party in the commons and the second largest in terms of membership in the United Kingdom”
The Gentleness of Normality
“Roads that start here and end there, somehow allowing a wound to heal…..it’s counter intuitive so say that nothing to see now is more real than what there was then. ‘Nothing to see’ means reality” (Stephen Rea, from “Brexit: a cry from the Irish Border”)
