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About davidsberry

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

Why Our Friends Aren’t Idiots

Posted on August 11, 2012 by davidsberry

There has been much huffing an puffing in the press recently about the supposed ‘split’ in the SNP over NATO and some of my colleagues have taken advantage of the traditional summer silly season to pour a little gasoline of … Continue reading →

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The Last Resort

Posted on August 10, 2012 by davidsberry

“Patriotism: the last resort of a scoundrel.” Dr Samuel Johnston The Edinburgh Festival is now launched full-scale and among the myriad of performances  is a play from  Tricycle Theatre at the always avant-garde Traverse called “Letter of Last Resort“. As … Continue reading →

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Here Comes Summer

Posted on August 9, 2012 by davidsberry

It’s been a long wait for summer to hit here in Sconnie Botland but the timing could not have been sweeter. This week is our biggest of the summer here in North Berwick. After a so-so day that allowed our … Continue reading →

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England’s Not Foreign to Me

Posted on August 8, 2012 by davidsberry

Peter Jones is not a man with whom I would normally choose to cross verbal swords. Freelance journalist more recently for the Hootsmon but previously regular contributor to weighty pieces in the Times and Economist, he knows his stuff but—more … Continue reading →

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Some Candle!—Still Burning

Posted on August 5, 2012 by davidsberry

“She only acted according to the script we gave her
” —Ernesto Cardenal Exactly fifty years ago, when Marilyn Monroe died aged 36 of a sleeping pill overdose in 1962, I was—like Elton John at the time—just a kid. From age seven, I would … Continue reading →

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What Next for (Scottish) Labour?

Posted on August 2, 2012 by davidsberry

A book is published this year, entitled What Next for Labour. The blurb for it states “Now is the time for a real debate about the future of the Labour party and its decisive role in British politics. Labour needs to … Continue reading →

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Why SNP Will Not Say ‘No’ to NATO

Posted on August 1, 2012 by davidsberry

The Scottish press are rather relishing the rammy that they expect to break out within the ranks of the SNP in the run-up to their main annual conference in Perth in October. On some levels, they are right to do … Continue reading →

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Made Fae Gurdurs? Shairly No’!

Posted on July 31, 2012 by davidsberry

…or, for outraged feminist readers who believe men really ought to have evolved beyond this sort of thing by now: …and for those really hard-core feminist readers who didn’t get a giggle out of that either, the truth is out … Continue reading →

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Labour for Independence

Posted on July 30, 2012 by davidsberry

The title of this blog is not nearly as bizarre as the present leadership of Scotland would have you (and many of its membership) believe. But while official party policy appears stuck in a miasma of denial that anything beyond … Continue reading →

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Out of Our Shell

Posted on July 28, 2012 by davidsberry

This week has seen a resolution to the ‘prawn wars’ brewing off the West Coast as larger boats from the East Coast, having meagre pickings in home waters, muscled in on their brethren. Another example of the idiocies perpetrated by … Continue reading →

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