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About davidsberry

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

One Good Reason

Posted on April 10, 2013 by davidsberry

…why we need Scotland independent is to rid us of the flummery that takes place in the name of the people and with which the great bulk of Scots wish to have no truck. Although Scots down the ages have … Continue reading →

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SuperGran from Grantham

Posted on April 9, 2013 by davidsberry

It is a rare occasion that George Foulkes and I agree but his brief in memoriam on Thatcher at Labour Hame is both measured and honest, which, bitter political enemies as they were, deserves acknowledgement. There will be a flurry of such … Continue reading →

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Gobshite Macht Frei

Posted on April 7, 2013 by davidsberry

Despite being a strong proponent of a free press, like many other Scots today, I felt insulted by Scotland on Sunday’s presentation of a low-budget political dig masquerading as a book review of Gavin Bowd’s Fascist Scotland. What should have … Continue reading →

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Dear Leader

Posted on April 5, 2013 by davidsberry

For all my life I have observed this bizarre time warp that is North Korea who, for all that time, have gone on as if their war with the southern half of the peninsula (1950-1953) had never ended, which technically … Continue reading →

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Poseidon Drowning

Posted on April 2, 2013 by davidsberry

When Yeats first mused his maxim “out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric and out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry“, it was half a century before the quarrel with others could lead to a nuclear … Continue reading →

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Border Going South?

Posted on April 1, 2013 by davidsberry

Excavation of a previously unknown vault beneath the Douglas Tower of Tantallon Castle has revealed a lead-lined casket with several well preserved medieval parchments that seem to have been part of the family papers of the Red Douglas Earls whose … Continue reading →

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Dominie Dominoes

Posted on March 30, 2013 by davidsberry

War may not have broken out in Scottish schools quite yet but Michael Gove’s caricature of the annoying swot who used to get beat up behind the bike shed is pushing things that way South of the Border. As the … Continue reading →

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The Helo Now Standing…

Posted on March 29, 2013 by davidsberry

…on Platform 6 3/4 is the 20:15 gravy train for Bristow. Not content with ‘outsourcing’ the UK’s impeccable air/sea rescue services to the private sector, the Condem government, with almost endearingly flatfoot timing, chooses to do so on the 50th … Continue reading →

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Indienomics for the Feart—I

Posted on March 26, 2013 by davidsberry

Much huffing and puffing surrounded last week’s budget with this blog’s prize for bare-faced effrontery going to Alasdair Darling for his cool rendition of the ever-popular “it-wisnae-me:—a-big-boy-did-it-and-ran-away” classic. Rather than rehearse the subtleties (or lack thereof) whether Ed has more … Continue reading →

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An Apple a Day

Posted on March 24, 2013 by davidsberry

Guest Blog from Christina Bonnington of Wired Magazine (Twitter @redgirlsays) Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System? Matthew Stoltzfus could never get his students to see chemistry like he sees chemistry until he added a digital component to … Continue reading →

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