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About davidsberry

Local ex-councillor, tour guide and database designer. Keen on wildlife, history, boats and music. Retired in 2017.

Redefining Security and Intelligence in an independent Scotland

Posted on March 15, 2014 by davidsberry

Originally posted on A Thousand Flowers:
A Guest Post by Cosmopolitan Scum Military and intelligence stories have been all over the news recently. Be it indiscriminate eavesdropping programs, WMD infrastructure, or our impending doom at the hands of terrorists if…

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Is This an Economic Argument or the Full Half-Hour?

Posted on March 13, 2014 by davidsberry

Now that the indy debate has devolved from professionals to real people it has become muddier. All sorts of voices are chiming in with their two cents’ worth—as it should be. But over the last month as the babble has … Continue reading →

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Better Together? Aye, Right

Posted on March 8, 2014 by davidsberry

Now that the independence debate has broken out of the ghetto of late-night-current-affairs  programmes and heated up and with the UK Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet weighing in—along with CEO’s of major Scottish companies—it’s a good time to look at the … Continue reading →

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Kissinger on Ukraine

Posted on March 7, 2014 by davidsberry

Published in the Washington Post on March 5th 2014, the attached article was written by Henry A. Kissinger under the title How the Ukraine crisis ends. He was US Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 and, as such, received … Continue reading →

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Mebbies Aye; Mebbies Naw

Posted on March 5, 2014 by davidsberry

Knox Academy is the high school serving East Lothian’s county town of Haddington and named after its pulpit-thundering son John Knox, would-be nemesis of Mary Queen of Scots and her “monstrous regiment of women”. Well to the fore again today … Continue reading →

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Carlekemp

Posted on March 3, 2014 by davidsberry

Apologies This blog and its embedded photographs were removed at the request of residents as details on the interior of the building might have compromised resident security. December 2nd 2014

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Lord of the Gnomes

Posted on February 28, 2014 by davidsberry

King Charles Street should be famous, but isn’t—perhaps by being named for the only British head of state to lose their head to democracy just up the road in front of Banqueting Hall. This narrow street is permanently sunless and … Continue reading →

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Buddy, Can You Spare a Dome?

Posted on February 24, 2014 by davidsberry

You have to hand it to Tony Blair. Not only did he shrewdly sidestep the coming fiscal storm in 2007 but then dropped from public scrutiny straight on to the six-figure speaker circuit and hasn’t looked back since.  Sweet. What … Continue reading →

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Learning from History

Posted on February 22, 2014 by davidsberry

It was eerie. I had a Friday evening free, fired up a casserole and channel surfed for something better than another yuppie house makeover to watch. And there it was—forty years almost to the day the cusp of change in … Continue reading →

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The Devil Is in the Doodle

Posted on February 18, 2014 by davidsberry

I have been a fan of the Scottish Parliament since before we failed to get ourselves one in 1979. And, however sanctimoniously two-faced some parties my have been in opposing it and then using it to rescue themselves from well … Continue reading →

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