What a week in Westminster and for the country. A total shambles and showing the absurdity of lacking a written constitution. That said even that may not have protected us all from the abuse perpetrated by Boris Johnson. A serial liar and a total charlatan. It’s good riddance. He didn’t even care for his party, any more than the country…. Read more »
With Johnson’s fall, focus turns to the succession. Already there’s a race to the bottom with a “Dutch auction” on taxes but with little explanation as to how that can be funded. Added to that’s there’s the more normal auction with ramped up spending on defence, never mind war in the Ukraine. It just doesn’t add up other than through… Read more »
There’s been less on our TV screens about the Ukraine war. That not just due to the Westminster mayhem but because it’s not going as well as hoped. The Ukrainians are getting ground down and news coverage is about heroic defence by Ukrainian troops and Russian atrocities on Ukrainian civilians. No doubt both are true, but it doesn’t solve the… Read more »
Statement from ALBA Party MPs Commenting ALBA Westminster Leader Neale Hanvey MP said: “Scotland’s mandate for an independence referendum must be respected. Scottish MPs are in Westminster to settle up for the people of Scotland, not to settle down. “Why should we respect the rules of the House of Commons when Westminster will not respect Scottish democracy. People back home… Read more »
Recent polls have shown public support for strike action. No wonder, as everyone doing their shopping, paying their bills or filling their fuel tank feels the pressures. That’s why Police representatives have described the Scottish Governments pay offer, as derisory and insulting. After all it would hardly cover the increase in a quarterly energy bill for some, and certainly two… Read more »
The First Minster’s statement last week was underwhelming, From an independence activist point of view though it’s still welcome all the same, as it’s at least the starting pistol fired for the next campaign. One from which there can be no going back. Unlike in 2017, she cannot, and will not, be allowed like the Grand Old Duke of York… Read more »
When I think of Tony Blair crime’s it’s the Iraq war that comes to mind. That on its own’s bad enough standing above all others given the harm its done to humanity. But there are numerous other offences perpetrated as he pursued his so called “third way”. A new one to me was highlighted in a book I recently read…. Read more »
What’s going on at South Lanarkshire College? With so many political scandals hogging the spotlight, acting there have been somewhat sidelined. But it doesn’t look right and it certainly seems an injustice has been perpetrated against Aileen McKechnie, the Principal and her Clerk Brian Keegan both presently suspended from duties. Now in my younger days tales of abuses in council… Read more »
It was that way for John Major’s Tory Government in the 90s. It wasn’t his affair with Edwina Currie or David Mellor’s sexual escapades in a Chelsea strip that did for them. It had been their pronouncement of ‘back to basics’ and extolling of family values, when many were clearly living and behaving vastly differently. To err is human, and… Read more »
The American Conservative isn’t a website I’d normally be drawn to, quite the opposite. But when a friend sent a link to an article on the situation in Ukraine and seeing the writers credentials my attention was assured. Douglas MacGregor’s not only a senior fellow at the Institute but a retired US Colonel, indeed a decorated combat veteran to boot,… Read more »