As the six-year fight for justice for Alex Salmond continues, we thought you might like to see this clip from this morning’s Mike Graham Show, interviewing Paul McManus, the businessman and drummer in Glasgow rock band Gun who’s stepped up to fund the Salmond family’s case against the Scottish Government despite disagreeing with much of what Alex stood for politically.
The Sunday National’s front page today elicited a sigh of “So what?” from most.
We’ve already GOT a “pro-indy” majority at Holyrood and have done for the last 10 years, for all it’s been worth. But to be fair there was a paragraph in the article that at least raised a quizzical eyebrow.
It seems that it’s fine to farm important judgments out to mysterious shadowy figures who just make important chunks of them up out of thin air, and then issue them in your own name. Back in your boxes, plebs.
This clip was broadcast on ITV News Wales this week.
It’s a staggeringly obvious mess for a whole raft of reasons – a number of completely spurious, illogical and unsupported claims are accepted as facts without any sort of challenge or balancing voice (which has been standard practice on ITV News for a while now across almost any contentious political topic) – but it led us to somewhere magnitudes of crazier still.
My first ever real experience of politics was playing Dictator.
Originally written by Don Priestley for the Sinclair ZX81 in 1982, it was a simple text-based game which subsequently came to other formats including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Elan Enterprise and the ZX Spectrum, which is where I encountered it.
It’s almost – almost – worth voting SNP in May because of this:
Because it would be at least momentarily absolutely hilarious watching Swinney try to explain why his “100% guaranteed” second indyref didn’t happen if the SNP actually did get a majority on 30% of the vote (which is narrowly feasible on current polling).
TURABDIN on The quality of mercy: “It also needs the intellectual capacity to effect such change. And there is the nub of the matter. So many…” Apr 4, 17:07
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: ““It was blustery and chilly as fuck in Scotland” In addition, the route of this march was 2-3 times longer…” Apr 4, 16:57
Cynicus on The quality of mercy: “I know. I was trying to add a little humorous value!” Apr 4, 16:53
Dan on The quality of mercy: ““Yet fewer than two out of every thousand of them could be arsed with getting a bus or train to…” Apr 4, 16:30
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: ““Scotland needs regime change” Decolonisation means a lot more than just ‘regime change’; it demands the complete transformation of colonial…” Apr 4, 16:24
agentx on The quality of mercy: “The reason I posted the link was to show that the march actually was reported by the BBC.” Apr 4, 16:17
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “Apologies. Correct spelling of host’s surname: FINKIELKRAUT” Apr 4, 14:53
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “In relation to HANNAH ARENDT’s leaving of Germany for refuge in France in 1933, this radio podcast discusses questions of…” Apr 4, 14:39
Aidan on The quality of mercy: “Well done TH, it was very good of you to get up at 4am to write this thoughtful and considered…” Apr 4, 13:56
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “Scotland needs regime change.” Apr 4, 12:38
TURABDIN on The quality of mercy: “As an inculturated province of the anglosphere Scotland might need to elaborate a sense of «Scotitude» as contrasted with the…” Apr 4, 12:37
Andrew scott on The quality of mercy: “What a brilliant article Salmond steered a steady ship -his successors ran it aground Simples” Apr 4, 11:54
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “Aye, Mrs Thatcher and Mrs Gourlay… twa sober women’s visiouns o Scotland us Scots kin dae withoot. We will see…” Apr 4, 11:45
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “Well young skiver shouldn’t you be claiming benefits and ranting about the English? A rant a day keeps reality away.” Apr 4, 11:30
Cynicus on The quality of mercy: “agentx says: 3 April, 2026 at 7:19 pm “SNP and Greens join independence march ahead of Holyrood election” ======= Haud…” Apr 4, 10:56
diabloandco on The quality of mercy: “A friend of mine wrote a song some years ago and came across it recently, decided to see what could…” Apr 4, 10:52
Bilbo on The quality of mercy: “The streets of South East Asian countries are scrupulously clean. This is down to the authorities being strict with littering…” Apr 4, 10:39
Alf Baird on The quality of mercy: “My analysis of Storrar’s fine text on Scottish national identity, which is a critical aspect for any colonized people, was…” Apr 4, 09:43
Bilbo on The quality of mercy: ““I don’t think that the 50% of the population who support independence aren’t committed to it being delivered.” It’s all…” Apr 4, 09:41
Northcode on The quality of mercy: “The Scottish Liberation Movement should be about the freeing of Scotland and the Scots from the hoax Treaty of Union…” Apr 4, 09:08
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “TH @ 4.23 Well said! We have been betrayed by total w8ankers.. The younger generations are totally captured by it,…” Apr 4, 06:05
twathater on The quality of mercy: “Scotland will never be independent as long as we allow non Scots to vote for our independence , 2014 was…” Apr 4, 04:23
Young Lochinvar on The quality of mercy: “Beggars So you’re cool with the North Koreans, China, R, most South American countries, U, Poland and various African states…” Apr 4, 03:45
Mark Beggan on The quality of mercy: “The problem with the Western world is that they still think evil does the Goose Step.” Apr 4, 02:35
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “Hopefully a better link: LIBERATION SCOTLAND UN UPDATE www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGn2SXcM7zw” Apr 4, 00:29
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “LIBERATION SCOTLAND UN UPDATE (2 April 2026) « Peter Young (IndyScotNews) discusses with Alan McMahon, Craig Murray and Sara Salyers…” Apr 4, 00:07
Geri on The quality of mercy: ““Independence is not even in SNP voters’ top three priorities” Neither is the top two cause they’re completely out of…” Apr 3, 22:04
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “The seminal (and still available) book by Will Storrar – SCOTTISH IDENTITY: A CHRISTIAN VISION was published by Handsel Press…” Apr 3, 22:02
Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on The quality of mercy: “The joke was of course first cracked by Tom Nairn. You should watch (minister) Professor Will Storrar’s 10 minute tribute…” Apr 3, 21:20
