Wings Over Scotland

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• agent x on Too Tight To Mention: “He fled to England for safety 20 years after Kenya achieved Independence.” Jul 7, 18:02
• agent x on Too Tight To Mention: ““There are elements of colonialism at work in the past and now in the UK. Coercion, erosion and appropriation of…” Jul 7, 17:57
• sam on Too Tight To Mention: “The historian, tom Devine says England sought the Union with Scotland for security reasons, not economic reasons. Colonialism begins with…” Jul 7, 17:41
• agent x on Too Tight To Mention: “Did you get 10 shillings (50 pence) for that one too?” Jul 7, 17:33
• AndrewR on Too Tight To Mention: “To reply again, yes, it was the post-independence Kenyan government that put him in prison. That it was a big…” Jul 7, 17:32
• Stuart on Too Tight To Mention: “There’s a very interesting set of posts over at the “People’s Assembly” over on Facebook about Salvo/Liberate Scotland, and why…” Jul 7, 17:27
• agent x on Too Tight To Mention: “Building a nation: Papua New Guinea’s 50 years of independence https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/png-independence-1975-50-years-anniversary-papua-new-guinea Interesting read.” Jul 7, 17:27
• Northcode on Too Tight To Mention: “Since everyone here is now talking about the imminent resurgence of the Scots leid – initially in the Scottish literature,…” Jul 7, 17:22
• AndrewR on Too Tight To Mention: “Yes, he had several languages that he could use for different functions. He also taught in English, but wrote novels…” Jul 7, 17:15
• Mark Beggan on Too Tight To Mention: “Your like a death at a birthday party.” Jul 7, 17:14
• agent x on Too Tight To Mention: “His book was written and released in English to achieve a wider audience.” Jul 7, 16:51
• agent x on Too Tight To Mention: ““Northcode says: 7 July, 2025 at 1:20 pm I’m reading ‘Decolonising the Mind – the politics of language in African…” Jul 7, 16:47
• AndrewR on Too Tight To Mention: “I just looked him up. Ngugi started writing his novels in his mother tongue during a year of imprisonment for…” Jul 7, 16:42
• sarah on Too Tight To Mention: “On the topic of helping Scotland to cease being subservient, to restore its constitutional and international status. Surely no Scot,…” Jul 7, 16:26
• Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: ““Given how you are attempting to bore everyone to death with post colonial theory Professor Baird, isn’t it time you…” Jul 7, 16:00
• Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: ““People all over the world want to speak it to get ahead and be successful in life !” Aye, it…” Jul 7, 15:52
• AndrewR on Too Tight To Mention: “I’d say that Young Lochinvar’s counter-argument is better, the Treaty of Ardtonish, as being nearer in history – but it…” Jul 7, 15:50
• Northcode on Too Tight To Mention: ““Given the earlier role of Dalriada Scots in the takeover of the Pictish Kingdom…this perspective perhaps needs revised” It definitely…” Jul 7, 15:50
• Insider on Too Tight To Mention: “Meanwhile Alf, in the real world, there are approximately 1.5 BILLION people currently learning english (often at great personal expense).…” Jul 7, 15:26
• Mark Beggan on Too Tight To Mention: “Psychology terms; Rumination, Repetition compulsion, historical nostalgia. Stuck on the past.” Jul 7, 15:16
• Northcode on Too Tight To Mention: ““As Thiong’o wrote of colonial education in Kenyan schools: ‘the language of my education is not the language of my…” Jul 7, 15:13
• Stuart on Too Tight To Mention: “Given how you are attempting to bore everyone to death with post colonial theory Professor Baird, isn’t it time you…” Jul 7, 15:11
• Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: ““The Southern Scots were a part of the oppression of the Northern Scots, the destruction of the northern culture, language,…” Jul 7, 15:08
• sarah on Too Tight To Mention: “It is getting the word out that is so daunting. All independence voters need to know about Liberate Scotland and…” Jul 7, 15:03
• Mark Beggan on Too Tight To Mention: “And they were very successfull don’t you think. So now that you’ve identified your problem. What is it that you…” Jul 7, 15:03
• TURABDIN on Too Tight To Mention: “«LORD GIVE ME CHASTITY and continence, but not yet» This infamous prayer of the young Augustine of Hippo (354-430) reflects…” Jul 7, 15:01
• AndrewR on Too Tight To Mention: “You are conflating what colonial powers do – divide and rule – which happened and happens in real life, with…” Jul 7, 14:50
• Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: ““Everybody is brain washed” How did you think the colonial hoax worked so well and so easily taking millions of…” Jul 7, 14:36
• Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: ““There can be no doubt that the linguistic oppression of the Scots leid, or tongue, is one of the greatest…” Jul 7, 14:27
• Mark Beggan on Too Tight To Mention: “Post Colonial Theory. Is this what the independence movement is reduced to. Is this all you can come up with.…” Jul 7, 14:08