It’s not about the flags. It was never about the flags. One half of the fuss about a story lately peddled by the British media claiming Nicola Sturgeon had ordered every Union flag in Scotland to be seized and ceremonially…
Taking a stand
The real significance of the stooshie over flags may not be immediately obvious. Firstly, it has to be recognised that the issue here is not flags at all, but the casually malicious dishonesty of the British media and British politicians.…
Absence of honesty
David Torrance’s assertion that he never wears a collar and tie is interesting for more than just the fact that it is patently untrue. The lie is less intriguing than the manner and circumstances in which it was told. It…
Molehills and mountains
I suppose it was the turn of education to get the grinding denigration treatment from the British establishment propaganda machine. That’s how it works. When the backlash against media maligning one of Scotland’s public services gets to a certain level,…
Not reassured!
This article by bilious uber-Unionist hack David Leask came to my attention today. It is from August 2017. But its subject matter – the British establishment’s ‘One Nation’ agenda – is highly topical. It refers to a blog post by…
The year of the tipping point
I too believe 2018 “will be a year in which a new Scotland continues to emerge, an emboldened, more confident and assertive nation“. In fact, I am firmly persuaded that 2018 will be a decisive year in terms of securing…
The sinking ship
I don’t for one moment doubt that, in the early hours of 15 April 1912, there were people standing on the giddily tilting decks of RMS Titanic sagely advising their fellow passengers to wait and see how things turned out…
Media power and the habit of lies
The following was censored by Sunday Herald when submitted as a comment. There’s a strong whiff of desperate sensationalism coming off this story. It’s the sort of thing anybody should be wary of who aspires to be an active consumer…
Wounds unhealed and lessons unlearned
First published in the September 2017 issue of iScot Magazine Against very strong competition, one of the most disturbing facets of the British state’s propaganda effort during the first Scottish independence referendum campaign was surely the attempt by the failed…
The Grist
Way back in March, when I first joined GA Ponsonby’s Towards Indyref2 project, I published an introductory article setting out my own view of our purpose – our mission, if that’s not too pompous a term. In that article, titled…