Someone once said,’The British Empire will defend itself to the very last Scottish soldier’. This is just one of a multitude of insults levelled against our cousins. OK, just a bit of satire, but there is more than a grain of truth in some of the insults [http://www.insults.net/html/world/england.html]. Remembrance Sunday brought this home, when the BBC presented the list of…
Month: November 2014
Thinking out loud
I suppose I was an Independence activist up to 18 September. On the 19 September I went into denial. Fortunately, that only lasted about a day. I quickly realised that I had fallen for the oldest trick in the ‘political manual of subversion’ the ‘false sense of security’ trap. This realisation turned my denial into anger pointing mainly inward. I…
To the Loser goes the spoils?
I saw another clip on Facebook revealing more ballot papers and referendum paraphernalia to add to the list of all the other ‘reveals’ we have seen. I do like a good old conspiracy and , boy, we’ve had plenty to keep us animated. It may be that some or even all of these are genuine – I don’t know –…