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Monthly Archive: January, 2012
Martyn Bennett, 1971-2005
“Try and find those things that make us Scottish. They are not necessarily tartan, but are no less colourful. They are in the sound of the kick drum, the bass line, the distortion, the punk guitar, the break-beat. Try and see the old ways in new surroundings.”
Show Me the Mone
By Mike Small Michelle Mone’s intervention in the independence campaign (‘Scottish lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone has threatened to move to England if Scotland votes for independence’) was the first big boob from the… Read More
Positivity
By Mike Small Pundits seem to be coalescing around the idea that a ‘positive message’ is an essential part of political campaigning (nothing new here, see Pat’s Juggernaut of Joy thesis). Whether it’s… Read More
Love Life – January
‘Love Life’ is Bella’s Agony Aunt column by Jamie Heckert… because the personal is political and the ‘state we’re in’ is complicated. Freedom, in Scotland and elsewhere, isn’t something that is given by… Read More
Soundherd
This from Social Media Week Glasgow Crowdsourced Scottish Poetry Audiobook:
Bringing it On
By Doug Daniel The 25th January 2012 brought the independence referendum another leap closer to reality, and did its best to shift the debate along, while not quite succeeding. We now have a… Read More
Scotch Myths 4 – No Scottish Army
It should be remembered that it’s not actually a prerequisite of a nation to be armed to the teeth…
Alex Salmond: Hugo Young Lecture 2012
Extract from Alex Salmond’s Hugo Young lecture (see video here): I want to reflect on the astonishing, and increasing, pace of change in Scotland. Devolution took a century to be delivered. The last… Read More
Something for the weekend: Big Burns Supper & Neu! Reekie!
by Kevin Williamson For anyone planning on being in the Edinburgh or Dumfries area this weekend, here’s a heads-up on a couple of events I’m involved with that might be worth checking out.… Read More
Braveheart Buddhists
By Andrew Barr “Independence isn’t just history.” That was the message of leafleters outside Scottish cinema screenings in the 1990s as Wallace rode onto our screens ready to free the nation. Today the… Read More
Decommisioning Dounreay: Babcocks or Starbucks?
by George Gunn Recently I was stuck between a conference where mobiles were verboten and writing a screenplay where everything other than the work in hand was verboten. But I had this desperate… Read More
Max Headroom
By Doug the Dug The Labour, Conservative and Lib-Dem parties’ joint strategy is clear as all of them want a single question referendum. In or out, yes or no. A binary choice for… Read More
Scotch Myths 3 – Devo Max
By Doug Daniel This wasn’t originally going to be the third in this series, but I felt the need to put it out there now, so here it is – Myth #3: The… Read More
Why Indy Lite is Wrong
By Pat Kane It’s fair to say – along with the not-so-gentle student arm-twisting of a newly elected representative for the South of Scotland region – that the veteran SNP grandee Jim Sillars… Read More
Beyond Knoxian Theatre
By Thom Cross Scotland does it all the time. We were taught it at school and in the street, by grannies and the meenister; more significantly (ominously?) by our Scottish? media the BBC,… Read More
The Devo Deficit & the Independence Referendum (Part2)
By Donald Adamson As we saw in part one (see The Devolution Deficit here) , since devolution, the turnouts at Scottish parliament elections have been significantly lower than the turnouts at the British… Read More
Scottish Independence: The Animated Version Of The Row Between Westminster and Holyrood
This handy short public information film on the week that was…from Taiwan’s NMA:
