Wings Over Scotland

I’m just a twat in a flat but I think these hacks may have an anti-democratic agenda.

Journalism Ethics
link to communication.oxfordre.com

The quicker the Daily Mail’s redundant the better.

Stu, I don’t know what we’d do without you. If we eventually get independence you will have to be given a huge amount of the credit for it.

Worth remembering that all women between 60 and 64 are not eligible for the state pension.
If lucky enough to have an occupational pension or other means to live on while waiting for state pension then they could account for a chunk of the 11000 ‘jobless’.
Women, jobless. lol 🙂
Handy to be able to use it in a headline to mislead though. Liars gonna lie.

SO if the present Prime Minister of the current UK is unable to solve the unsolvable Ireland border issue, in Brussels this evening… would that outcome make the ‘Great British Pound’ drop even further on international exchange ratings, by nightfall?

Scottish independence would be a rapid improvement.

Giving rise to loads of new job opportunities.

Enjoy yer last supper le soir PM.

No deal is looming.

It is more likely that rather than QUIT work they were probably employed in one of the many firms to close i.e M&S and Frasers.

Who but an idiot would buy the mail, let alone buy it?

Ross Thomson perhaps?

Is that today?
Okay, another pile of poison dumped behind the Corn Flakes boxes.

@cactus @me

Apologies, OT too soon probably.

IMHO, the hack in the yoonstream better look for a new direction in life, as I doubt an independent Scotland will tolerate their pish.

Bioethics as a Governance Practice

Abstract

Bioethics can be considered as a topic, an academic discipline (or combination of disciplines), a field of study, an enterprise in persuasion. The historical specificity of the forms bioethics takes is significant, and raises questions about some of these approaches. Bioethics can also be considered as a governance practice, with distinctive institutions and structures. The forms this practice takes are also to a degree country specific, as the paper illustrates by drawing on the author’s UK experience. However, the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Bioethics can provide a starting point for comparisons provided that this does not exclude sensitivity to the socio-political context. Bioethics governance practices are explained by various legitimating narratives. These include response to scandal, the need to restrain irresponsible science, the accommodation of pluralist views, and the resistance to the relativist idea that all opinions count equally in bioethics. Each approach raises interesting questions and shows that bioethics should be studied as a governance practice as a complement to other approaches.

Keywords: Bioethics, Governance, UNESCO Declaration, Ethics committees, Legitimation, UK Bioethics

link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Ethical and deontological aspects of online journalism. Their perception by journalists

Abstract:
Digital journalists from three countries (Belgium, Spain and Italy) argue that the ethical exercise of journalism depends on the personal and professional values of journalists as well as on external factors (of commercial, economic, political and technological nature). Journalism ethics is, thus, influenced by the working conditions as well as the technology used to carry out the professional activity. However, the degree of independence of the media companies where journalists work, and their personal values are perceived as the most influential factors in the ethical practice of journalism, while the influence of the interaction with the public and its opinions are considered as secondary.

link to revistalatinacs.org

Deontological Code for the Journalistic Profession

Preamble

In the framework of the civil rights, enshrined in the Constitution and which form the basis of a wholly democratic society, journalism is an important social tool which puts into effect the free and efficient development of the fundamental rights of all citizens to freedom of information and the freedom to express one’s opinions.

As subjects and as instruments of the freedom of expression, journalists acknowledge and guarantee that journalism is the basis from which public opinion manifests itself freely in the pluralism of a democratic state governed by the rule of law.

However, journalists also take into consideration that when their profession uses their constitutional rights for the freedom of the expression and the right to information, their conduct is subject to limitations, which prevent the violation of other fundamental rights.

Therefore, when taking on these obligations, and as a true guarantee which a journalist offers to Spanish society, which he/she serves, journalists understand that they must maintain, collectively or individually, irreproachable conduct when it comes to the ethics and deontology of information.

In this sense, the journalists which form part of the Federation of the Press Associations of Spain (Federacion de Asociaciones de la Prensa de Espana – FAPE) commit themselves to maintain the binding ethic principles when exercising their profession. The general assembly of the FAPE declares the following principles and binding norms for the journalistic profession:

link to ethicnet.uta.fi

Maybe they quit work because they are of pension age.

re. the Conservative party. Their identity is intrinsically bound up with neo-colonial attitudes and paternalistic British nationalism. Undoing Britain will cause irreperable harm to the Tory psyche. Lets get busy folk, we have them on the back foot.

Margaret Thatcher’s Nationalism

Heath, Jowell, and Curtice analyse Margaret Thatcher’s distinctive form of British nationalism that embraced a range of issues such as strong defence, vigorous pursuit of British interests in Europe, the protection of British sovereignty, and the maintenance of the Union. They discuss how Thatcherite the electorate was on these issues. As on the economic front, Margaret Thatcher tended to be more extreme than the electorate, both on nuclear defence, where the electorate did not share her enthusiasm for the deployment of American nuclear Cruise missiles in Britain, and on the maintenance of the Union, where the electorate progressively moved away from her brand of British nationalism.

On Europe, the Conservatives were closest to the electorate but the disunity of the party over the issue gave out confusing signals to the voters, and the Conservatives proved vulnerable to the Referendum Party created in 1995 with the aim to campaign on the preservation of British sovereignty. The results from the analysis are consistent with the ‘top?down’ theory of voting behaviour, according to which parties may be able to influence how voters see issues and can themselves shape their supporter’s attitudes.

Keywords: British sovereignty, Conservatives, defence, Europe, nationalism, Margaret Thatcher, the top?down theory of voting behaviour, the Referendum Party, the Union

link to oxfordscholarship.com

The Rise of New Labour: Party Policies and Voter Choices

While referring specifically to the effects of capitalism on society, Marx’s phrase also aptly describes the evaporation of some of the Conservative’s key geopolitical commitments over the course of the post-war era. As Sir William Harcourt, Liberal leader from 1896-8, put it: ‘The Conservatives, mark my word, never yet took up a cause without betraying it in the end.’ One of the greatest ironies of British politics is the fact that the Conservative Party, despite a marked attachment to British prestige and global eminence, ended up overseeing British decline over much of the twentieth century and indeed to the present day.

This is not to say that the Conservatives are wholly responsible for decline, nor to deny that other parties have their own catalogue of failures, but now does seem like an appropriate time to draw attention to the peculiarly destructive nature of the Conservative Party, which has failed in so many respects on its own terms.

One of the most useful frameworks for thinking about the role of the Conservative Party in British decline was created by one of the twentieth century’s greatest conservatives, Winston Churchill. In 1948, he famously described the United Kingdom as standing ‘at the point of junction’ of ‘three great circles’ (or transnational relationships): ‘the British Commonwealth and Empire’, ‘the English-speaking world’, and ‘United Europe’. For Churchill, Britain’s unique world role derived in large part from its potential ability to unite these circles and maintain a position of great influence in each one, without becoming fully integrated into, or limited by, any of them. In Between Europe and America: The Future of British Politics (2003), Andrew Gamble adapted Churchill’s model with the addition of a fourth circle, the British Union itself, which had been so taken for granted by Churchill and his audience in 1948 that it did not merit inclusion in his schema.

link to blogs.lse.ac.uk

Brexit psychology: cognitive styles and their relationship to nationalistic attitudes

The idea that our ideologies reflect our psychological motivations is not new. In an influential book titled The Authoritarian Personality (1950), Adorno and colleagues hypothesized that “ideologies have for different individuals, different degrees of appeal, a matter that depends upon the individual’s needs and the degree to which these needs are being satisfied or frustrated”. Similarly, in 1954, the famous psychologist Gordon Allport already suggested that our prejudices and ideological preferences are “unlikely to be merely specific attitude(s) toward specific group(s)… [these are] more likely to be a reflection of [a person’s] whole habit of thinking about the world”. These eloquent proposals captured the hearts and minds of researchers by making politics an extension of personal psychology, and not merely a feature of demographic circumstance.

Even though these ideas have been around for nearly 70 years, there has been little rigorous empirical research examining how cognitive traits shape nationalism and voting behaviour. In a recent paper, we sought to investigate the extent to which individual differences in emotionally-neutral, “cold” information processing styles predict voting behaviour and nationalistic sentiments in the 2016 EU Referendum.

link to blogs.lse.ac.uk

The Völkischer Beobachter daily award for untruths and hate goes to the Scottish Daily Hate Mail……..and others………

Ah, yes, they can report on another of the many English royal weddings or royal sprog births who in turn will get married & produce more sprogs. At least it will be at the English tax-payers’ expense.
(Ref: Most Scots don’t give a damn – National today).

OT
Oh yes, that’s a splendid big flag from AyeMail arrived today. Wasn’t sure whether it would be a small one or a large one – it’s large! Yay 🙂

‘Women quit work’. Lazy, work shy shirkers eh! I am off to sip cocktails and not bother looking after anyone today, anyways the ‘jobless benefits’ are keeping people in the lap of luxury, why the heck would they want to ‘work’. :-/

11.000 picked out of a hat, sadly some people will see that and be all SNP Baaaad as usual.

The only people I know ‘quitting’ work are those who left the UK, have had great wages for same jobs as would have kept them in near poverty in the UK, so now they take early retirement. No doubt in the UKOK the little slaves of the corporate media would say they were, ‘unemployed’, if they lived in Scotland.

‘Jobless benefits’, that’s a new one, they must have written ‘work shy benefits’, but thought it sounded a bit harsh!

The Daily Mail really is a disgrace to the profession.

Meanwhile what does Goregous George mean?

link to mobile.twitter.com

@Proud Cybernat 3:10 pm

If it was me,I’d be wanting an iron clad legal agreement,giving absolutely nothing to Westminster,save for abstentions in one-off deal,Whether it could be written into said deal,We don’t get the same shit as last time and they have to take Davidson South….Don’t see it…They’re Tories ,They lie and cheat

Reluctant Nationalist
Here’s on just for you, with your MA in Psychology.

Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand?
Lower cognitive abilities predict greater prejudice through right-wing ideology.

….What this study and those before it suggest is not necessarily that all liberals are geniuses and all conservatives are ignorant. Rather, it makes conclusions based off of averages of groups. The idea is that for those who lack a cognitive ability to grasp complexities of our world, strict-right wing ideologies may be more appealing. Dr. Brian Nosek explained it for the Huffington Post as follows, “ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simple solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies.” For an excellent continuation of this discussion and past studies, please see this article from LiveScience….
link to psychologytoday.com

@galamcennalath
That’s interesting, decades ago I was too, organisers off to Paris for trips supposedly and so on. Luckily I had too many sponsors and by the time I’d collected it (well, most of it) all the story had come out so I just gave it direct to a charity.

@grafter says: 17 October, 2018 at 4:00 pm:

” … NICOLA…..No deals with May and her Tory scum party over Brexit. We don’t need her permission for Indyref2.”

You are correct, grafter. Here is our First Minister telling them just that:-

link to youtube.com

BTW: Just to bang another wrong story on the head, note the age group mix in the SNP audience. They will be, I think, mainly branch delegates.

Now I may be wrong but it looks to me as if the more elderly members there are very well represented.

Apples and oranges being compared. Also if you’re including 16 year olds you’ve got a large number of workers who may have been doing summer jobs. There’s no mention of how many men/women in the rUK left employment at the end of August. The only figures for the UK are over the entire year.

O/T

live blog of today’s preceedings at the European council summit

link to politico.eu

Also see here for Tony Connelly’s take
link to twitter.com

@orri says: 17 October, 2018 at 4:32 pm:

” … Slacker women finally reach retirement age.”

Now I want you to think carefully what I’m saying here.

Those women could probably all be former employees of Glasgow Council who were all employed by Glasgow Council when Labour ran Glasgow.

Neatly done Rev.

Still the tory lapdogs with headlines like Davidson:9/10 Scots are a burden to the state ed millaband is an f#@$ing knob or the enermy of the people headline in the high Court ruling against the conservative goverment they printed this is no surprise from England supremacists like the mail.

Intractability is 100% intractable. Which part of that simple fact, regarding the Irish border, do the Tories and their supporters not get?

Josef Ó Luain says:

Irish border … the Tories and their supporters

It is so crystal clear that Leave campaigners never gave Ireland a second thought in the quest for disengagement with the EU. That was callous and blinkered.

However, May’s government(s) took a long time to come to terms with the fact that it was a major issue. Some hard advocates are still in denial. That was gross negligence.

And even now when they are face to face with reality, they still try to sidestep with irrational suggestions of a time limited backstop. That is reckless stupidity.

O/T
I wonder.

Suppose May strikes some kind of deal with the EU. AFAIKnow, come April, UK is out of EU, the 2-year transition period starts, but all, repeat all, EU rules & regulations still apply, including the new tax avoidance/money laundering regs, as does the ECJ jurisdiction.

So, methinks, if I had a few zillions stashed away in Cayman Islands, I would be looking for zero transition period, I would want UK to crash out with no deal, NOW!

So, I wonder, is that the agenda? Are we all blind? Is this whole circus act geared to crashing out – but making sure to be able to blame Brussels?

From a post-colonial, feminist standpoint, British nationalism is bad, mk. It produces similar social constraints on the Scottish public, as those imposed on womanhood before emancipation. British nationalism denies political agency to Scotland and the Scottish public.

Reconstructing the history of nationalist cognition and everyday nationhood from personal accounts

Abstract

New approaches to nationalism have focused on the role of human agency within nation?building structures (nationhood from below, everyday nationalism, experiences of nation, personal nationalism, etc.). However, the development of specific methodologies is still scarce. This paper proposes the use of personal accounts (mostly journals and autobiographies, but not only) as sources for qualitative historical research in nations and nationalism. Departing from the concepts of ‘identity’, ‘experience’ and ‘memory’, it is argued that, although very problematic, these sources are a valid path to the study of nations as they are: social phenomena of discursive nature and political frame, whose real agents are individuals. When these agents narrate their lives employing the nation as a meaningful category, they are not producing mere second?hand reflections of superior and prior realms, but are performing microhistorical acts of nation?making that are significant for understanding any case of nation?building. The paper includes an empirical example using British personal accounts from the Age of Revolutions (c.1780–1840).

link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Ideology as Motivated Cultural Cognition
How Culture Translates Personality into Policy Preferences
link to psa.ac.uk

CULTURAL NATIONALISM: A REVIEW AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
link to roar.uel.ac.uk

grafter says:
17 October, 2018 at 4:00 pm

“NICOLA…..No deals with May and her Tory scum party over Brexit. We don’t need her permission for Indyref2.”

Cautious Establishment lawyer Nicola stood “shoulder to shoulder” with “Tory scum” Saint Theresa and the “ghastly” Boris Johnson as they declared war on Russia after a false flag operation.

Cautious Establishment lawyer Nicola knows perfectly well that she would have to go into exile in Brussels if she dared hold an independence referendum without Westminster’s permission.

Rock (8th October 2017 – “The shoogly peg”):

“I can say with 100% confidence that Saint Theresa is not going to give permission to Nicola to hold another referendum before Brexit has been completed.

I can say with 99% confidence that Nicola will not dare defy Saint Theresa.

If she does, the recent events in Catalonia will look like a picnic in comparison.

The fascist British state is far far worse than the fascist Spanish state.

The worst part of it, more than half of Scots will be on the side of the fascist British state.

After all the Irish and Scots will remain “British” until judgement day and beyond.”

“Do we really want Scottish children to grow up as racists wankers, unquestioningly obedient to neo-colonial, neo-liberal, Brexitania?”

No Cameron mate, it’s specifically why I give a feck.

BTW, and defo no offence,but you seem to be afflicted by a condition often found in academia. The rarefied air seems to make people see the world as if others are of the same cloth as them, maybe just not so well edumacated.
Depending upon your definition of racist, I doubt you would find a majority, whoif honest, had never had a racist thought. I certainly have, but then people do change.
This applies across the cultures, whites don’t have the monopoly here.
Nastiest b’stard i ever met, racist wise, was a high caste Indian. Hated everybody 🙂

I don’t want my kids to grow up in a politically correct version of reality either, scared to call a woman a woman.

The media, especially the BBC, is desperate to do Scotland down, as self-confidence is essential for making positive life changes. Contemporary Britain is characterised by a rejection of Enlightenment principles and an increasingly authoritarian cultural chauvinism. Brexit is an English disease, Scotland will only harm itself if it succumbs to England’s isolationist exceptionalism.

#DissolveTheUnion

Cognitive underpinnings of nationalistic ideology in the context of Brexit

Abstract

Nationalistic identities often play an influential role in citizens’ voting behavior and political engagement. Nationalistic ideologies tend to have firm categories and rules for what belongs to and represents the national culture. In a sample of 332 UK citizens, we tested whether strict categorization of stimuli and rules in objective cognitive tasks would be evident in strongly nationalistic individuals. Using voting behavior and attitudes from the United Kingdom’s 2016 EU referendum, we found that a flexible representation of national identity and culture was linked to cognitive flexibility in the ideologically neutral Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and Remote Associates Test, and to self-reported flexibility under uncertainty. Path analysis revealed that subjective and objective cognitive inflexibility predicted heightened authoritarianism, nationalism, conservatism, and system justification, and these in turn were predictive of support for Brexit and opposition to immigration, the European Union, and free movement of labor. This model accounted for 47.6% of the variance in support for Brexit. Path analysis models were also predictive of participants’ sense of personal attachment to the United Kingdom, signifying that individual differences in cognitive flexibility may contribute toward ideological thinking styles that shape both nationalistic attitudes and personal sense of nationalistic identity. These findings further suggest that emotionally neutral “cold” cognitive information processing—and not just “hot” emotional cognition—may play a key role in ideological behavior and identity.

cognitive flexibility nationalism ideology political psychology Brexit

link to pnas.org

Nation?states and states of mind: Nationalism as psychology
link to tandfonline.com

Nationalism in Settled Times
link to scholar.harvard.edu

Say one thing, Rock is very well balanced, a chip on both shoulders.

May says, “now is the time”.

Ear prick up all around Scotland!

No! Not time for THAT you silly jocks!

Contemporary British nationalism articulates white supremacist ideology and cultural intolerance towards Others, including the Scots and Irish (see Brexit).

Preference for radical right-wing populist parties among exclusive-nationalists and authoritarians

Abstract

The literature on authoritarianism and exclusive forms of nationalism often implies that authoritarian and exclusive-nationalist individuals will prefer radical right-wing populist parties such as Austria’s FPÖ. The theoretical case for such implications appears sound as party programmes for radical right-wing populist parties invoke rhetoric that should appeal to individuals with either of these characteristics. To date, these implications have not been examined. This article examines quantitative survey data from five Western European countries with electorally viable radical right-wing populist parties to determine whether radical right-wing populist parties are preferred by authoritarians and/or exclusive-nationalists. Analyses indicate that the radical right-wing populist parties studied here are consistently preferred by exclusive-nationalist individuals, though not necessarily to all other parties, but only inconsistently preferred by authoritarian individuals. While more nuanced investigation is still needed, it is clear that, contrary to the assumptions in the authoritarianism literature, radical right-wing populist parties cannot always rely on authoritarian individuals for support.

Keywords Authoritarian predisposition, exclusive nationalism, radical right-wing populist parties

link to journals.sagepub.com

Psychological bases of support for radical right parties
link to sciencedirect.com

What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right?
link to newscientist.com

@ INDEPENDENT – you might mot have seen that mike cassidy posted a link to the full version of the GMS broadcast you mentioned on the previous thread.

The interview with the German journalist is at 8 mins 15 secs into the programme. He does, as you say, spell out how unimportant UK is to the other 27 EU governments. Worth a listen.

link to bbc.co.uk

smithie
I appreciate I post a lot, though I’m not the only poster who is guilty of such. I’m simply trying to share specialist insight that probably hasn’t previously been introduced to the debate. I’m sorry, I’m just brickin’ it over Brexit, so I’m trying to undo the British state’s gaslighting of Scotland. That is what we’re here for?

@ CameronB Brodie – a lot of resonance with some of your posts today. I watched 22 July on Netflix yesterday. It is drama docu about the Norwegian terror attack by Anders Breivik which killed over 70 people, most of them teenagers on a school trip to the Island of Utoya.

If anyone doubts that the Alt-right is active, organised and dangerous then watch this film. Chilling.

link to en.wikipedia.org

Cameron B B.

Fair play Cam it’s as i say though goes over ma heid and i don’t see the relevance….i mean if i was in a pub and trying to win over a no voter…would i quote you? or any such like “stuff”?, i know you mean well and you know your subject and i don’t mean to be nasty BTW.

Ive said my bit lol so all the best anyway Cameron.

Sad news about David Mundell, he has apparently been diagnosed with terminal unionism. It would appear he is near his last breadth.

Theresa May has left the summit now while the other 27 tuck into their dinner. President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani has just given a brief press statement which contains nothing much regarding news.

link to tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu

Dinner tonight for the 27 leaders is:

Starter: Pan-fried mushrooms

Main course: Fillet of turbot cooked in wheat beer, with glazed vegetables and sweet potato

Dessert: Sorbet trio of fig, pear and grape

🙂

Theresa May has left the summit now while the other 27 tuck into their dinner. President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani has just given a brief press statement which contains nothing much regarding news.

link to tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu

Dinner tonight for the 27 leaders is:

Starter: Pan-fried mushrooms

Main course: Fillet of turbot cooked in wheat beer, with glazed vegetables and sweet potato

Dessert: Sorbet trio of fig, pear and gr*pe

🙂

CameronB Brodie

O/T I tried to be polite the other day, but instead of taking the hint (since repeated by others) your verbal diarrhoea is actually escalating. Jeez, it’s getting on for nearly half of the total lines of text in this thread so far, with no sign of stopping. It’s the max produced by any one person by a long, long way.

And what’s more, virtually nothing you are furiously dumping on here has anything to do with the actual article topic. Not even close. It mostly doesn’t even have anything to do with independence as such.

And how many interested responses does your acres of verbiage engender? One a day, maybe, if you’re lucky. That’s a fair measure of the relevance.

Sorry, but this isn’t supposed to be some kind of self-medication for the stresses you (like the rest of us) have to endure over Brexit. It’s a distraction, sure enough, but not a relevant one. You’re farting while London burns.

If you dispute what I’m sayin’ here’s a test: take yourself round a few doors in your neighbourhood and tell the good folk you meet all about “Deontological Code for the Journalistic Profession” and “Reconstructing the history of nationalist cognition and everyday nationhood from personal accounts” and “NEURO-PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE PEACE AND SECURITY” (without shouting), and see how far you get with conversions to indy. Come back and tell us how you fared.

Or emulate many others like WGD and start your own blog/website “Amateur sociologists for indy”, watch your reader count grow, and shame me.

Whether motivated by irrepressible monomania or rather darker motives, what you are doing here is just another form of trolling. Give us a break, FFS.

May misses out on summit dinner. Tutbot fillet cooked in wheat bear, glazed veggies, and sweet potato. She, presumably, gets a pizza somewhere.

@Thepnr

Och, you beat me with the menu. 🙂

Robert J. Sutherla
You don’t appear to see the value in my effort, that doesn’t mean you are correct. Do one mate.

Robert J. Sutherland
Honestly, if you can’t see the relevance of the material I’m posting, then your not trying, IMHO. You might not be keen on critical political philosophy, but others appear to be more open to enlightenment.

@ RJS – I’ll try to spell it out:

the Alt-right dominates the BREXIT agenda and the UK media with their toxic mix of ethnic nationalism, white supremacy and anti-democracy (or fascism in short).

The SNP Scottish Government seeks to restore democracy to Scotland and maintain links with our EU neighbours and good relations with migrants to Scotland.

We are locked into this battle. The future status of Scotland depends on resisting those forces which are busy destroying democracy and our ability to make our voices heard.

Stu seeks to expose the lies of the UK MSM and politicians. We seek to support him and each other in this task, by various means.

CamreonB Brodie’s contribution is to search out and link to academic studies of the very problem we are forced to confront.

Not everyone wants to engage with such studies. That’s fine, just scroll on by. But I don’t doubt that they are relevant and , yes, there are a few people who appreciate CBB’s posts.

God, or failing that the people of Scotland get us out of this terrible and unequal, unfair union.
We have a shitstorm coming and we need to escape.
The union will end on the 29th of March 2019.
We need to have the lifeboats ready.
The nation of Scotland needs to be reborn and make its own way in the world.

Oh here we go then and this will be a problem for May.

Senior EU source says unlikely a date will be set for a November Brexit summit.

link to twitter.com

Thanks folks. I’m not expecting everyone to become a social scientists, though a quick glance at the headlines and abstract will embed itself in the subconscious and may stimulate further investigation. 😉

The people of England are set on a path and whether we agree or disagree that is their right.
We have the right to set our own path and agree to differ.
That is the right of the sovereign people of Scotland.
That they want to cut themselves off from the largest market in the world is their right.
We have the right to be not dragged to oblivion.
We have to exercise that right!

wull 😉

Iain 9.07. Problem is iain we have half a millstone of scottish unionism wrapped around our necks dragging us down and out with their english brexiteer brethren.

O/T
Universal Credit

Channel 4 news tonight did an item on Universal Credit and Scotland and its new Social Security system got a fair hearing – around 4 mins out of the 8 min segment. Jon Snow then interviewed the MP who is Labour’s Shadow Minister for Social Security – 4.43 min into the segment.

At one point he asks her straight out if Labour will follow Scottish Government’s example and reduce the waiting time for UC from 5 weeks to 2 weeks. For a split second it looked as if she was going to say no way or just blank the question altogether as the Tory Minister did last night when Jon Snow asked him the same question. She really looked as if the very idea of following the SG’s example was going to choke her. I don’t think I imagined that hesitation.

link to channel4.com

Bobp
I’m not making this stuff up mate. 🙂

Here’s one for those who choose not to believe Britain has a problem with structural racism.

(Mis)Representing Islam
The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers

Chapter 5 discusses and analyses the reporting of British Islam and British Muslims in broadsheet newspapers. The chapter is structured across five major sections, each of which analyse significant aspects of the domestic reporting of Islam and Muslims. The first two of these sections discuss the broad characteristic features of domestic coverage: the tendency of the press to divide ‘Islam’ and
‘the West’, even in domestic reporting; and an analysis of articles which move from such ‘strategies of division’ to ‘strategies of rejection’. The third section develops the negative representation of British Muslims further, through a more extended analysis of the domestic reporting of ‘Muslim terrorism’ in broadsheet newspapers. Fourth, the chapter analyses how the sampled newspapers represented ‘Muslim education’ and Muslim schools, focusing specifically on the coverage generated by the granting of Voluntary Aided status to two Muslim schools. The fifth section discusses items of recorded coverage which, whilst constituting a very small minority, present a much valued ‘positive’, or ‘open’
representation (Runnymede Trust, 1997) of British Islam and Muslims.

link to is.muni.cz

How deep is Britain’s racism problem?
link to huckmag.com

Understanding Prejudice, Racism, and Social Conflict
Chapter 1: Prejudice, Racism, and Social Psychology
link to sk.sagepub.com

Beware the political tricksters

link to caltonjock.com

Bob Peffers

Your posts are always interesting,,,keep them coming sir.

Lol

Bob Mack says:

She emphasises the Union staying together

I have always felt that is in fact her number one priority.

Behind all the smoke and mirrors of Brexit talks, deals, cabinet argy-bargy, etc etc., I think the continuation of the UK is foremost in their minds, but not openly discussed.

Scotland is 50:50, they know if they do something to cause significance offence we will move to being pro Indy.

Their approach is to ignore, sideline, avoid Scotland. They would love to do the same with NI but the EU won’t let them. Avoiding generating internal rifts in the UK is what matters most.

I reckon they just don’t have the skills and political prowess to achieve that. Their UK has a close to expiry date on it.

unemployed people do not have a good standard of living on benefits, get that clear in your head, what you will find is bravado in great quantities ,that’s because even the poorest longest unemployed people have a tendency to make out they are doing better than they actually are, believe me it’s all bluff, they can’t heat their homes go out for meals etc etc, some do get help from parents and other relatives but why shouldn’t they ?
Being long term unemployed is a miserable life.
Take it from me I worked as a social security visiting officer for more than thirty years, I’ve seen the misery I worked for DHSS ,DofE , DWP, CSA, benefits agency, the pension service ,going to the homes of unemployed people every day for over thirty years I can tell you now for sure that you do not see how people really live until you get into their house.
Misery ,sadness, deprivation, strength ,survival, deception cruelty these are the proper descriptive words to use when talking about long term unemployed people.
I recently went to the new V&A Dundee to see the exhibition about ocean liners.
It was so sad to see videos and photographs of thousands and thousands of people enjoying a lavish luxurious lifestyle on these ocean liners a hundred years ago and more and read the presentations accompanying the photos and videos saying that the companies building these liners were in a race to show off how much progress the world was making.
What was also shown was that the world has not made progress, it made my blood boil seeing the extremely offensive luxury those thousands and thousands of wealthy people flaunted over a hundred years ago which was a far superior lifestyle to what ninety percent of people in Scotland have right now 2018.
Scotland had a chance to change things we can give people greatly improved security, a home ,healthcare ,education, we can tax business properly and have land reform, it is obscene to see how much of Scotlands land is owned by people who sit in the House of Lords who have British passports not because they were born here or even live here they come here a few weeks at certain times of the year but live most of their life overseas and were given a British passport and a seat in the House of Lords because they paid a million £ to the uk govt or do business here.
Taking back control is required, the people of Scotland need to take back control of their country take it back from England ,it is England that controls Scotland albeit with help from some Scottish people .
Take back control of your country and rewrite the rule book on tax, social security ,pensions housing healthcare newspapers , broadcasters ,football and bigotry, bigoted marches and bad behaviour and most importantly our parliament , we can have a proportional representation parliament ,it will differ from the parliament we have at present because we will not have MP,s who are selected by a political party, every MP in the Scottish parliament should and will be elected by the people of Scotland after independence ,there will be no tolerance of dishonest people no tolerance of Ruth Davidson kezia dugdale and other non elected people.

Robert J. Sutherland
This isn’t a doorstep though, is it? It’s closed minds like yours that will keep us in union. As I said, away and shite.

May might consider a transition period extension, reports the media!

Jeez, it’s being offered as an inducement. It’s intended to be a benefit for the UK. It’s a carrot to allow more time to get a trade agreement in place.

From some of the reporting you’d think May was doing the EU a favour by accepting.

BBC news: November Summit is off.

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Theresa May’s classic answer … fisheries … to everything thrown at her by SNP MPs. I reckon they should pre-empt this by stating before / after their statement / question, that it was the Tories that sold the Scottish fishermen out.

link to thenational.scot

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link to thoughtcontrolscotland.com

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Cameron please keep on posting. I particularly liked your Maggie Thatcher nationalism article earlier. If people aren’t too keen on the articles surely they should just scroll on by. Additionally I can’t understand why this has come to pass when I can think of at least half a dozen people who post on here who should stick to posting in O/T, better still not posting at all.

@RJS 9:43pm
Don’t fall into the trap of “I don’t like it therefore no-one does” or the equally alluring “Those who actually post BTL are the majority of Wings readers ergo speak for them”
Have another see look at Wings stats and take a humility chill pill.
I post and sometimes some right rare pish I have nae doubt, but would I care to speak for other Wingers? Naw.
There is a lot of inanity BTL including mine, You’ve a fair few to admonish before you reach CBB.
It’ll be a busy time for you. Otherwise it smacks of specific bias.

@Terence callachan

Yes, it’s just not right.

The UK is one of the most unequal (the most?) states in Europe.

It isn’t asking too much that everyone in our society has a decent life.

Yet Tory philosophy, in fact UK in general, believes that it is acceptable to have impoverished families. We can have a better society.

@ Terence at 9:43pm ….

Great post Terence showing the Scottish traits of understanding, empathy and compassion.

It looks like there will not be any clarity on Brexit anytime soon. Can’t help believing that it was always going to be this way. All the bullshit spouted in the past was just that.

The SNP would have been truly mad if they were to push for a second referendum before all this crap is sorted out. That though in itself is a problem because when can we say that it is finally sorted out?

I don’t see that being anytime soon, Barnier stating “we need more time, much more time” is exactly what I would expect to happen. I doubt the EU are willing to extend the Article 50 end date just for the sake of the Tory party but they will if there is to be a general election or a second EU referendum.

The only date written in stone other than the 29th March is on 21 January when May must tell parliament that it hasn’t been possible to achieve a deal and spell out what the government intend to do next.

I don’t see us getting to that date without the government losing a vote of No confidence. On probability I’d say we are heading for a general election spring next year after agreeing an extension to Article 50 with the EU to get our shit in order.

See after that… 🙂

@Terence callachan
Gasp! Nearly fell aff ma chair.

@Terence Callachan,

It was ever thus. You are indeed right on so many levels. I believe we can do so much better for every individual who has made a life here.
Thanks.

Daisy Walker
According to Michel Foucault, power controls what knowledge is deemed credible. Phenomenal conservatism (the way we understand the world through thinking shortcuts), means we are predisposed to accept whatever explanatory information is available. If you control the production of accepted explanatory knowledge, you have control over the populations potential to think. I’m simply trying to provide alternative explanatory knowledge.

Decolonizing The Mind (DTM)
A theoretical framework for decolonizing the university

Introduction

A growing body of literature on decolonizing knowledge has resulted in a wide array of perspectives and ideas in the critique of Western knowledge production. In this article I deal with one particular approach: Decolonizing The Mind (DTM). It aims to contribute to the development of a coherent theoretical framework for decolonizing knowledge and power.

link to iisr.nl

Decolonising geographical knowledges
link to rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Decolonising the curriculum: what’s all the fuss about?
link to soas.ac.uk

OT
Here’s what the Sun said on January 23rd 1992. We should understand the pressure on the press to reflect what a significant percentage of its readership should like to hear . A stupid position of not understanding this is helping to destroy our faltering press . The Record is some way along the sensible road.

“The Scottish Sun has been thinking long and hard about what form of government would best serve our future . We have come to the inescapable conclusion that Scotland’s destiny lies as an independent nation within the European community. The political and economic union with England is now nearly 300 years old.It has served us well in the past, but as links with Europe strengthen, that union had become more and more unnecessary. The time has come to break the shackles.To collect our own taxes. To run our own lives. To talk to other nations in the world on our behalf. For too long – for 300 years too long – we have thought of ourselves as a second class nation, somehow not worthy or capable of being an independent state. This is nonsense. With independence Scotland could be one of the wealthiest small nations in Europe.”

Says it all really. Can we suggest to them they do another front page “Rise now – and be a nation again” which I still have in laminated protection.

Cameron B Brodie,

Please continue posting your comments. If I choose to not read a comment by you, then I just scroll on by. It is such a pity that your moist vocal critic doesn’t have the ability to do the same.

Honestly, some folk could argue with their shadow on here.

Your comments are very appreciated Cameron. Continue treating your critics with the utter contempt they deserve. If I were you, I’d be tempted to post more frequently right now, just for entertainment purposes.

@mike cassidy

That indeed was the lady, very matter of fact and no dramas however the wee Tory boy, well just embarrassing really, St Andrews too eh letting his school down a bit there, he’ll be a laughing stock with his chums or they’ll avoid him like the plague, you know thon quick turn around when you say it’s him pretend you didnae see him, heids doon

Robert Louis
Now that wouldn’t be nice and I don’t mean to cause disruption. However, I posted this a couple of years ago, as an alternative to the Queen’s Christmas speech. I think it could do with another airing.

Colonizing and decolonizing minds

The colonization of each other’s minds is the price we pay for thought.1 Mary Douglas

Whereas the most visible forms of political colonialism have for the most part disappeared from the planet by the end of the millennium, several of its consequences remain with us. Criticism of colonialism, accordingly, has shifted its focus to its more subtle and lasting manifestations. Prominent among these are the varieties of what came to be known as the ‘colonization of the mind’. This is one of the forms of ‘epistemic violence’ that it is certainly the task of philosophers to contribute to identify and struggle against. ‘Postcolonial’ thinkers have undertaken not only to analyze this phenomenon, but also to devise strategies for effectively combating and hopefully eradicating colonialism’s most damaging aspect – the taking possession and control of its victims’ minds….

link to tau.ac.il

@ CameronBBrodie ‘
‘Phenomenal conservatism (the way we understand the world through thinking shortcuts), means we are predisposed to accept whatever explanatory information is available’

Thanks Cameron, I find it very interesting (if hard going) and I appreciate your efforts.

What I see, is that people’s positions are often illogical, and deeply emotional. They will hang an issue onto it

eg I’m voting no because I don’t want Scotland to leave the EU.

And when the circumstances change, they simply dump that issue and keep the position, but this time with ‘attitude’ at being caught out in their hypocrisy.

This business of appealing to the emotions and being factually accurate. And of course being drowned out by MSM. Its all very complicated.

If its OK I’ll just try and keep it simple.

Daisy Walker
Best to. 😉

The neurobiology of emotion–cognition interactions: fundamental questions and strategies for future research

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and cognition. This work has begun to yield new insights into fundamental questions about the nature of the mind and important clues about the origins of mental illness. In particular, this research demonstrates that stress, anxiety, and other kinds of emotion can profoundly influence key elements of cognition, including selective attention, working memory, and cognitive control. Often, this influence persists beyond the duration of transient emotional challenges, partially reflecting the slower molecular dynamics of catecholamine and hormonal neurochemistry. In turn, circuits involved in attention, executive control, and working memory contribute to the regulation of emotion. The distinction between the ‘emotional’ and the ‘cognitive’ brain is fuzzy and context-dependent.

Indeed, there is compelling evidence that brain territories and psychological processes commonly associated with cognition, such as the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and working memory, play a central role in emotion. Furthermore, putatively emotional and cognitive regions influence one another via a complex web of connections in ways that jointly contribute to adaptive and maladaptive behavior. This work demonstrates that emotion and cognition are deeply interwoven in the fabric of the brain, suggesting that widely held beliefs about the key constituents of ‘the emotional brain’ and ‘the cognitive brain’ are fundamentally flawed. We conclude by outlining several strategies for enhancing future research. Developing a deeper understanding of the emotional-cognitive brain is important, not just for understanding the mind but also for elucidating the root causes of its disorders.

Keywords: ACC, amygdala, anxiety, depression, emotion control and regulation, EEG/ERP, fMRI, PFC

link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Affect and Political Choice
link to oxfordhandbooks.com

Cultural Psychiatry: Lecture #9 The mental health of indigenous peoples pt 1
link to youtube.com

Come the next elections if we get that far all three British parties in Scotland are already combining their efforts and strategy to oust the SNP candidates from the most marginal seats

No more in Scotland will you see Tory Labour and Liberal Democrat campaigning separately they have become The British National party one for all and all for one

They might find this strategy risky though people don’t like being taken for mugs and this will be a lot more obvious this time

Cam how dare you… up to now i have been polite, what makes you think you are somewhat superior?

a university education? LOL yeah right

smithie
I’ve lived on the street and built a business. Is that qualification enough?

Cam i have met many ….many folk like you and you know what? Those that had had the supposed most “intelligence” were that thickest thickest fuckers in this world becuase they had not the slightest clue as to what LIFE was about…so bring it on Cam