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About davidsberry

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

Posted on January 7, 2013 by davidsberry

Originally posted on A Burdz Eye View:
Two Scottish broadsheet Sunday papers, two quite different splashes. But they share a theme. The Sunday Herald’s front page story tells of the Scotland Office sitting on internal government files relating to devolution.…

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Education as Political Football

Posted on January 6, 2013 by davidsberry

Currently, politicians are getting stick for appearing to prefer squabbling to getting things done. While this can been seen as simplistic and not showing understanding of how democracy works, there is nonetheless much truth in the accusation. Because what they … Continue reading →

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Where Hell Froze Over

Posted on January 4, 2013 by davidsberry

The year 2012 will be remembered  for unusual weather. Sunny Dunny was drenched, Stonehaven flooded, Assynt suffered an unheard-of drought and much of England is still so sodden any new rain simply runs off. North of us was unusual too … Continue reading →

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Credo

Posted on January 3, 2013 by davidsberry

“We make out of the quarrel with others, politics, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry” —W.B. Yeats The previous post is a re-blog from Mute Swan with which I was particularly impressed because it asked politicians to rethink their … Continue reading →

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Dear politicians and political types

Posted on January 2, 2013 by davidsberry

Dear politicians and political types. I find myself pretty much in sympathy with the sentiments expressed in this blog and, since I have a public affiliation to the SNP, acknowledge ALL parties have suffered some erosion of moral anchors afflicting them … Continue reading →

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Two Peoples, Separated by a Common Language

Posted on January 2, 2013 by davidsberry

Although a phrase coined by the ever-observant Mark Twain to describe why the Americans and British were forever misunderstanding each other, despite both, in theory, sharing the same English, the phrase jumped to mind as I watched Simon Heffer’s New … Continue reading →

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Ten of the Best

Posted on January 1, 2013 by davidsberry

For all our readers, whether regular or no, thanks for your interest in this blog over the last twelve months. The hope is that it entertained and stimulated your thinking. In truly democratic fashion, a ranked list of the top … Continue reading →

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Darling is My Charlie

Posted on December 30, 2012 by davidsberry

I had every good intention of sitting out the balance of 2012 full of pud and good will and sticking my oar back in the political water once the Hogmanay bubbly was undrinkably flat and more than a few well … Continue reading →

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The Auld Adversary

Posted on December 27, 2012 by davidsberry

Much ink has been spilled in the dead tree media over how difficult it would be for Scotland to operate economically as an independent country with England no longer bound to support it. Certainly any hostility on England’s part would … Continue reading →

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‘Tis the Season

Posted on December 24, 2012 by davidsberry

If the Three Wise Men had been abroad in England on their mission to follow the star in 2012, they would have a tough time of it. Not only have the skies here been uniformly obscured by rain clouds (except … Continue reading →

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