Devo Plus What?
Devo Plus was launched today as an attempt to give a shot of caffeine into the whole debate. We got warm horlicks instead.
Monthly Archive: February, 2012
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Important New Book on Lockerbie Bombing: 8 Key Pieces Of Evidence Re-Examined
An important new book on the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been published today which explores a number of key areas crucial to the case, including eight which relate to previously unseen evidence. Author… Read More
EBT Phone Home
The Scottish Football Association have appointed Lord William Nimmo Smith to chair their inquiry into recent activities at Rangers. Here one well-informed caller nails it about problems with Campbell Ogilvie, Martin Bain and… Read More
Lossie no more, Clash no more, Mallaig no more….
By Fiona MacInnes The class divide is alive and well in the fishing industry. As the multi- millionaires of the Mill- owning Baron class from the industrial pelagic fleet skip from court with what amounts, in… Read More
The professor, the think-tank & the black black oil
There’s a sizeable article in today’s Scotsman questioning (yet again) Scotland’s ability to be independent of Mothership London. This time the talkdown goes under the headline “Scotland can’t afford oil fund without major… Read More
Trident – Nowhere to Go
An independent Scotland means the end of Trident in the UK.
Caption Competition
The Prime MInister was in Jockland to announce his new Devo Shsh initiative. Here is David Cameron eating porridge in Fife last week. Special prize to the reader with the funniest caption for… Read More
Love Life – February
‘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
Greek Independence
Interview with Liana Kanelli an independent MP elected under the flag of the Greek Communist Party (KKE) for the last twelve years in four consecutive elections. Ms. Kanelli has been a journalist for… Read More
What do Fred the Shred and Sir David Tell us About Scotland?
By Gerry Hassan This is not another article on football. The Rangers crisis has filled the airwaves and media this week. For the second time this year Scotland has gone international and viral,… Read More
Here & Now
‘Despatches from the Invisible Revolution’ E-book published by New Public Thinkers launch evening 29 February, Venue tbc. Includes: A show of hands – Alex Fradera, Fear and homecoming in 2011 – Keri Facer Bergeron’s… Read More
An Awfully Big Adventure
By Christopher Harvie According to Neil Oliver the referendum will be ‘the biggest decision in 300 years’. So ca’ very canny … I wonder. In 1707-15, as far as the mass of Scots… Read More
The Spin Room
By Mike Small So what just happened? Watching the body language, maneuvering and positioning is fascinating. Salmond welcomes Cameron, and hand on back ushers him into a room before sitting in front of… Read More
Cameron visits Edinburgh
A government we didn’t elect presiding over an economy we don’t control.
Rangers On the Edge
By Phil Mac Giolla Bhain These are indeed historic days for Alba, for just as Scotland’s Claim of Right may about to be asserted at the ballot box in 2014 a bastion of… Read More
Disaster Capitalism in Action in Europe
By Moira Dalgetty in Athens. Television images of demonstrators being teargassed by riot police in Athens on Sunday night followed the usual rules of media coverage of civil unrest – plenty of graphic… Read More
