The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 27).
[SCENE: The interior of the Bennets Bar. James, Tychy and Tori are seated four tables down with bottles and glasses of …
Tag Archives: Scottish Nationalism
The Dawn of Scottish Independence.
Although the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon had announced her departure from frontline politics yesterday, in reality she has been protractedly …
Gender Recognition Reform: How did Scottish Nationalism ever end up here?
Whenever nations appear, the process is by and large a standardised one. A people become conscious that they are a …
Nicola Sturgeon Is No Revolutionary.
Yesterday’s ruling at the Supreme Court basically confirms that anybody who had voted for an independence referendum during the last …
Austerity Comes to Scotland.
Somewhere deep in the imagination of every Scottish nationalist exists a thriving and virtuous social democracy. A city upon a …
Podcast Review: SEARCH.
Chris Patrick’s SEARCH – an audiodrama that was released earlier this year – appears to lift the lid on a …
A Squeak on Red Squirrels (and Pine Martens).
Years ago, in the forests beyond Aberfoyle, I saw something that I had never seen before: a red squirrel. I …
Where Is “Home” For The Book Of Deer?
I am a reader of Lorna Corall Dey’s blog Lena the Hyena and a tremendous admirer of it. Lorna is …
Winners and Losers from Rising Wages and Falling Ones.
The three months before June had marked an annual rise of 5.2% in average regular pay, as measured in real …
Labour Is Now The Party Of The Union.
It is now clear that Thursday’s panoply of elections has strengthened the different parties of government at Westminster and Holyrood. …
The Fallacy of IndyRef2.
Sometimes it is worth returning to original assumptions – assumptions that have remained undisturbed for a long time – just …
Indyref 2: A Road To Nowhere.
The route to a second Scottish independence referendum all looks like a big spaghetti pie at the moment. Pro-independence politicians …
An English Country Vicar Meets His Match.
On Sunday morning, the Reverend Stuart Campbell climbed into the pulpit and he began to preach his sermon to the …
More Lockdown, More Thanatos.
What explains this eerie life after death that the lockdown lately finds itself in? If, back in November, we had …
The Noctes Ambrosianae (No 25).
[SCENE: Still not a pub. We are in the living room of Zbigniew Tycienski’s Newington apartment. James is sitting alone …
Tychy 