Category Archives: Politics

Never Too Old to Learn

Posted on May 7, 2014 by davidsberry

I stopped celebrating birthdays decades ago and have just passed an age milestone that America named both a Route and a sixties rock ‘n’ roll song after. Yet each day still brings something new and long may it remain so. … Continue reading →

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Волк в ове́чьей шку́ре

Posted on May 3, 2014 by davidsberry

After a couple of decades dimly perceived media limelight, the Russian wolf has suddenly loomed large in the headlines in a way that it has not since the bad old days of the Cold War. After the fall of both … Continue reading →

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Provocation? Not Gonna Work

Posted on April 16, 2014 by davidsberry

The indy debate is heating up. In the course of my three-plus years of blogging and tweeting so far, I’d like to think my point of view contributed as objectively as my conviction would allow. Nonetheless, I have been classified … Continue reading →

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By Their Fruits Shall Ye Know Them

Posted on April 10, 2014 by davidsberry

This blog has been consistently critical of the UK Ministry of Defence and all who sail in her, right up to the Cabinet Minister for Defence, currently Philip Hammond. Apologists for the Union as diverse as Murdo Fraser, Alan Cruickshank … Continue reading →

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‘Britain’ Is a Geographic Term

Posted on April 8, 2014 by davidsberry

Pace the great Austrian statesman Metternich who used a similar phrase in his famous put-down of Italy’s ambitions to become a united state, it seems long past time to broaden the discussion that so far has fixated on Scottish independence … Continue reading →

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Everyone Out of Step but John Bull

Posted on April 6, 2014 by davidsberry

Perhaps it was always there, submerged in the jingoism that ran through British society in Edwardian times like a resort name through a stick of its rock. And when faced with the second half of WW1 (played 1939-45) in which … Continue reading →

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And Answer Came There None

Posted on March 27, 2014 by davidsberry

Not wishing to flatter myself, I would hope, after almost 8,000 tweets and over 630 blogs, that I am known in the smallish hothouse of political social media in Scotland and, despite some lively querying and debate, that I play … Continue reading →

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A few thoughts on Labour’s Devolution Commission

Posted on March 25, 2014 by davidsberry

(I have my own disappointments at what Johann Lamont announced as Labour’s offering to Scotland, should we choose ‘No’ in September and Labour wins the 2015. Indeed, the ‘Devo Plus’ option was one that I argued should be on the … Continue reading →

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One Hundred Years of Desuetude

Posted on March 19, 2014 by davidsberry

With apologies to Señor Gabriel Garcia Marques for abusing his title, the next thousand words seek to examine the assertions coming from Philip Hammond, his MoD minions and his boss David Cameron that Scotland would be far safer and able … Continue reading →

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This Septic Isle

Posted on March 16, 2014 by davidsberry

Last week’s Scottish Tory Conference virtually frothed with discussion about what they were going to do for Scotland—once their deluded countrypersons had seen the light and consigned Independence to the bin for toxic waste, come September. Ruth made a competent … Continue reading →

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