The schools and the universities 11
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January 16, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Archive for the ‘culture’
Broadcasting and language 21
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January 15, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As we’re a day behind due to Saturday’s technical catastrophe, and Chapters 12 and 13 of “The Claim Of Scotland” are unhelpfully titled, let’s give you a wee bonus and have a double helping of could-have-been-written-yesterday 46-year-old history.
Images and stereotypes 32
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January 14, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Migration and unemployment 15
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January 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The Highlands and islands 42
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January 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Fear of Godwin 70
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January 11, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Very many years ago, in a previous life, we wrote a short article about the widely misunderstood and endlessly-misapplied principle of “Godwin’s Law”. Regularly cited by idiots who claim that mentioning Hitler or the Nazis in an argument means you automatically lose, it actually says no such thing, and such usage is in fact a wildly irresponsible act consigning the most important lessons of history to the dustbin.
The dangers of arbitratily excluding the Third Reich from mankind’s collective memory in order to be a smartarse on the internet have been illustrated several times by the current UK government as it seeks for ideological reasons to portray whole swathes of British society as subhuman underclasses, but perhaps the most startlingly overt demonstration to date appeared in yesterday’s Independent.
The takeover bid 38
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January 10, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The framework of taxation 11
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January 09, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The law 54
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January 08, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Bureaucrats in the saddle 36
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January 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Frustration in Parliament 68
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January 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
In all loyalty to the Crown 121
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January 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Continuing our daily serialisation of HJ Paton’s fascinating 1968 book “The Claim Of Scotland”, courtesy of splendidly alert and dedicated reader Wilma Watts.
