By Alec Ross I’m just back from the Highland Show. I don’t know how or who decides these things, but after the attempted Union Jack rebrand of black pudding and whisky last […]
Some Thoughts From The Highland Show
Huff’d and cuff’d and Disrespeckit
“at the time of writing, Scotland has voted three times in three years to be part of the European Union”.
Burden of Proof
Here’s a question. If the union didn’t exist, would we join it?
An open letter to the FM of Scotland
“there comes a point when we have to stop asking permission”
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.”
