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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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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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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Wrang Yin

Posted on February 24, 2013 by davidsberry

Most media are carrying fulsome obituaries of the former Scottish Secretary of State for Scotland Bruce Millan, who has just died at a ripe age of 85. Tribute to him was paid by Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, who said: “Bruce was … Continue reading →

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Sometimes You Just Need Balls

Posted on February 23, 2013 by davidsberry

I’m sure that it has never bothered Ed that the two of us disagree on so much. I didn’t like the cut of his jib when he was in the Westminster shadow of Irn Broon. That dislike went steeply downhill … Continue reading →

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That’s More Like It

Posted on February 21, 2013 by davidsberry

I was struck by a post elsewhere this week. Though I disagreed with its conclusions, I was impressed a young and principled unionist could make their case without implying that everyone in Scotland would go bald and slobber uncontrollably post-independence. In … Continue reading →

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