Wings Over Scotland

Yea and never give up.

Scotland needs necessary evils like you, more than ever.

Guid new year to all and I hope to live and see Independence. clock of mine is speeding up.

HNY ya’ll

Yeah so we are 😀

Happy New year all you guys!

Boris wants us all to be happy,and together I hear.

We want the same, Boris.

Just ever so slightly differently.

Peace and love to all Wingers, and fellow Scots of most persuasions.

Best New Year to all readers. Hope over fear.

The picture above is a Manchester street scene, isn’t it? The New Year version here in the Highlands in the past is of people happily occupying a ditch for several days and none the worse for it. My father-in-law fell in a steep hillside burn – I’ve seen the spot and it is steep! He was a small man so how he got out I don’t know.

Happy New Year to one & all.

I see Stu is not making any predictions about how quiet and uneventful 2020 is going to be.

I hope the AUOB march in January is a success. I hope the aftermath of leaving the EU on 31st January lights up February with our determination to get out of the UK. I hope the Alex Salmond trial in March clears his name and reputation. I hope the Declaration of Arbroath celebrations in April are stupendous. I hope May to September is a happy campaign period for Indyref2. I hope that the referendum launches us as a free and independent nation.

Hope over fear 🙂

Holy Crap Rev,
I read that as you were leaving us! Don’t you f*****g dare. We need you now as never before. Ignore the naysayers. We’ve still got your back.
To you and yours, Guid New Year, and I wish you all all that you wish yourselves.

Happy new year everyone.
Scottish independence is coming.
I don’t agree that SNP are happy to take these next few years and then be dumped for lack of action.
You don’t do that job in Westminster or Holyrood for the fun of it.
There’s no fun being SNP in either place listening to English MPs and List MPs that nobody has ever heard of and nobody voted for.

Every successful cause requires a leader
Wheel you choose a leader
Get behind them and support them
And most of all trust them
There will always be dissenters within and outwith
That’s life

We shall prevail

This by Craig Murray I very much agree with

SNAP…me too…I like this as my new year wish too

Craig Murray

My New Year Wishes – 1) Scottish Independence
2) Freedom for Julian Assange
3) A genuine, public inquest into the murder of Dawn Sturgess
4) Recognition of the State of Palestine
5) Genuine moves towards a paradigm shift in wealth distribution here

RE. Col Bimp IV
Yes the goalposts have moved and we need to be aware of that.
I have just read James Robertson’s ‘And the Land Lay Still’. His sweeping novel of post war Scotland is a useful reminder of the big picture. In my mind there is no doubt that the beginning of Boris Johnson’s premiership is going to be seen as a success. The headlines of this morning’s papers were full of ‘Roaring twenties’, ‘Britain sees in New Year on a wave of optimism’, ‘Our decade of Hope and Glory’ Brexit may or may not be a complete catastrophe but those who’ve backed it can’t afford for it not to look successful.
The SNP and supporters of independence in general need to be aware that in the short term at least Boris Tory party is not going to be the part of austerity and all the hardship that people have had to put up with will be seen as a necessary price to pay so that we might enjoy a better future.
That’s why we need to be aware of the big picture which is that for the last 300 odd years Scotland has suffered as a result of a union that was widely opposed even at the time. Both then and now there are some individuals who have prospered int that union and who have supported it but the country as a whole would have been far better off without it.
Keep the big picture in mind and keep your eyes on the prize.

I expect that most reading this article and responses are aware of the Ten Commandments….Thou Shall not; Thou Shall not… principles, guidelines to living in a civilised society.

And so, in principle, I do not want to live in a society that imprisons, for no wrongdoing, Julien Assange.

Nor do I want a Prime Minister, who through his incompetence as Foreign Secretary, has caused a woman, a mother, to be imprisoned in Iran. And to Iranians who might read this, I believed that you as a nation were better than this treatment of the woman.Gain some leverage, release her.

And so, in principle, i do not want to further witness the disrespectful treatment of our MPs at Westminster. Fight fire with fire. When the Tories walk out when the SNP are speaking, the SNP walk out. When Johnson looks at his phone when the SNP are speaking, walk out.

The S30 request is a toy for Johnson to tease Scotland. I trust that Nicola has set a time limit on Johnson’s response.

Belated New Year greetings to all (I’m a daily reader but very occasional contributor)

Hope we get what we want in 2020. If not now, when?

Hello Wingers, All the best for 2020 to all of you, especially Stu

i have lived in Massachusetts for 46 years and i now feel i live in Britain., The amount of British TV shows, Monarchy TV programs, is saturating our TV every night here in Massachusetts . Now today New years Day we have a parade in London filled with USA participation. Cannot help feel after over one year of this saturation of Britishness we are in trouble . I cannot turn my TV on without being bombarded with WW11 or British Monarchy and cooking shows. Sorry for the rant but it is getting to me and i have given up subscribing to PBS her in MA as I feel I’m subscibing to B
ritishness.

Hello Masslass..in Massachusetts…

I’m the same….bombarded with Britishness
I live in Scotland
Here in Scotland the people who think of themselves as British
Do their best to cover up and hide anything that mentions Scotland or shows Scottish origin or identity
It’s as if they are trying to erase the existence of everything Scottish

Here in Scotland we know that whenever they mention british they mean English

Sorry to hear you are being fed all that Britishness and royalty too
We get it non stop on our tv as well

England is obsessed with WWII and royalty

Masslass @ 21:22,

Hi. Not too sure how you got here, but here you are.

As we see it, it’s a disillusioned remnant of the UK ruling class wanting to align themselves ever closer with the USA, but you have evidently sussed correctly that it is in fact the other way around. Now that they are free of the clinging overseers of the EU, those dastardly Brit imperialists are determined to get back their Empire and are starting with the very first colonies to quit. Get used to it, because soon the whole world map will be coloured pink again. “Rule Brittania…!”

=wink=

@Masslass

That’s English broadcasting with a Union flag stuck on it to fool the masses into thinking they’re the made up British nationality,
Irish no more, Scottish no more, Welsh no more, yet English people can identify as both English and British, they own the titles
and remember in Scotland we’re not allowed to have any broadcasting service of our own as that’s a Westminster *power* they refuse to devolve, and the excuse for not doing so? the SNP might use that power over broadcasting to do what Westminster does with it

When a government has the power to remove a licence to broadcast they have the power to control what is broadcast and Scotland has had English broadcasting imposed on us since broadcasting first began

North Korea’s got nothing on the UK of England government in the insidious rankings

Happy New Year everyone. I wish you all that you wish for yourselves in 2020. Still hopeful we will have voted for independence this year.

Happy New Year all out in wings land. Stu, have a topper and no doubt right now you will be sampling some crazy flavoured alcohol ? , but we need you back on the saddle for what I hope to be an important year on the road to independence. Fingers and everything else crossed.

The vision of 2020 … comes with WoS.

Go Stu, you hit the nail so many times.

Indyref 2 in 2020. I do NOT want to be making the wisecrack ‘Hindsight has 2020 vision’.

Just a wee heads up, watching some Youtube stuff, this popped up in adverts.

The Butchers apron side by side with the stars and stripes.
Saying ” NEVER EASIER TO GET TOGETHER”

So be prepared for a media onslaught. The next state of the US Union is forming.

O/T

Weird wind/weather patterns going on inthe atlantic just now, a stormy day for Scotland especially the western parts. If you want to see it, take a look at ‘earthwindmap’ online, by ‘nullschool’ it’s fascinating. Stay inside if you can, Scotland is still on holiday!

https://earth.nullschool.net

@ Artyhetty – thanks for that. Interesting.

Wild wind on the east coast in the borders area too. Low level cloud appears to be racing past with the higher level cloud almost stationary.
Maybe it’s just a sign of the quickening, now that the new year has begun and the end of January approaches, hopefully it’ll blow away some of the abundance of political tumbleweed Scotland has allowed to build up.
UK or EU – There can be only one!

Looks like some of our tumbleweed has landed in the US if the #tumblegeddon is anything to go by.

link to twitter.com

I’m still in mild shock to learn that some Scots paid 12 quid to a UK company to have permission to jump in the sea at Queensferry yesterday.
It would appear more like an act of civil subservience rather than civil disobedience.
Mind you, I guess if one meekly accepts the moving of our maritime border, then one would accept paying the new owners to access that water.

link to craigmurray.org.uk

300+ years of British indoctrination and anglicization will take time to correct and eradicate.
Independence is not just a political matter, it is also cultural and psychological. The virus of colonial dependency is tenacious.
Whether that is within the capabilities of purely party political entities such as the SNP is an open question. Scotland may need alternative structures which while resolutely pro-independence ie liberation and renewal, may not find favour with the National party establishment which itself has rather too much of the ‘British’ about it.

Sorry.

….the dizzying rate of globalization and increased intercultural contact, psychology is working hard to keep pace. Some view the recent name change of the American Psychological Society to the Association of Psychological Science as a nod to the increased consciousness of psychology as an international project (Chiu, 2007).

Psychology journals sponsored by the American Psychological Association with high-impact indexes (e.g., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and American Psychologist) routinely publish conceptual and empirical articles that pay attention to cultural factors, and a number of other psychology journals have also published special issues devoted to culture and ethnicity (e.g., Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Community Psychology).

However, scholarship devoted to the study of cultural variation in psychology has long been criticized for being simplistic, ahistorical, and decontextualized. More specifically, culturally focused research has been criticized for its tendency to ascribe observed group differences to East–West binaries (e.g., individualism–collectivism, Judeo-Christian versus Confucian, etc.).

Moreover, there is little attention paid to the larger historical and contemporary contexts that shape – and reshape – the social lives of these so-called ‘traditional’ cultural variables such as Confucianism or collectivism. Paranjpe (2002, 35) characterized cross-cultural psychology publications as displaying ‘a distinct disdain for history’. Similarly, Gjerde and Onishi (2000, 216–217) charged that the culture and psychology approach suffers from ‘lack of attention to the historical and ideological sources of “culture” ’….

They say it comes in three’s, first we had the passing of Colin Weir, then Alasdair Gray, now the Growth Commission architect Andrew Hughs Hallet has also passed away.

We’ll miss them all.

From the perspective of cultural psychology, Brexit indicates Britain’s culture is being focused towards regaining a cultural prestige steeped in racism and the exploitation of others, and their resources. This isn’t a radical or minority view.

One Big Thing: Britain, Its Empire, and Their Imperial Culture
link to cambridge.org

Yes that Herald article is yet another “exclusive” written by Tom Gordon and quoting Kenny MacAskill. I rest my case.

Jings! In irrelevent other news darn Sarf.

Sir Keir Starmer (he doesn’t use the ‘sir’) well ahead in the Labour leadership preference poll with Rebecca Long-Bailey (Corbynite) well behind.

My unsent letter to my MP:

“…Whilst the Referendums Bill awaits Royal Assent and the FM awaits a response from the Prime Minister of the UK regarding a s30, which may never be issued, I would like to suggest that there is little to no point in you and the other SNP MPs continuing to attend the UK Parliament, where you are second-class EVEL MPs, in a parliament dominated, as it’s ALWAYS been designed to be, by MPs who have little or no regard for Scotland.

However, being realistic, even if it is possible and constitutionally legal and lawful, I have no expectation that any of the suggestions below will happen. I have no expectation that Scottish sovereignty will be exercised or asserted by Scotland’s political representatives.

It is disappointing that it appears the SNP leadership have decided Scotland’s place in the Union is total subjection, in colonial subservience to the power of the unelected Crown in the GB & NI Parliament, despite Scotland being a sovereign nation in, what we were assured, was a union of equals.

But, these are my suggestions:

1. The SNP MPs withdraw from UK Parliament and invite all Scotland’s MPs to withdraw with them.

2. The Parliament of Scotland was only adjourned, never dissolved by Scotland’s parliamentarians. It was announced dissolved by Royal Proclamation of Queen Anne. I believe this was the legal equivalent of Boris Johnson’s prorogation of UK Parliament via The Queen without parliament’s approval. In other words the dissolution of the Parliament of Scotland was not according to Scots Law. Eg. Claim of Right, the Crown usurping parliament and the laws and traditions of the people of Scotland.

3. Those MPs form a quorum and declare the Parliament of Scotland in session. (The real parliament exercising Scotland’s sovereignty, not a devolution/colonial parliament such as Holyrood).

4. Those MPs vote that Scotland stays in the EU so they veto Scotland’s EU Scexit as part of the UK.

5. The Parliament of Scotland seeks Royal Assent as an emergency measure and notifies the EU of the constitutional issue that there is an issue regarding consent for withdrawal from the EU as the people of Scotland are sovereign within the UK union and have exercised their sovereignty to reject EU Scexit / Brexit under the current terms.

6. The Parliament of Scotland, exercising / representing that sovereignty has no need to seek subservient s30 legislation. A parliament exercising sovereignty and the democratic mandate can order a Scottish indyref, instead of asking permission for a UK state indyref.

7. The MPs have the democratic mandate to block Brexit. They have the mandate for indyref. The Parliament of Scotland ( that can exercise Scotland’s political sovereignty) is already in existence, and merely in adjournment.

8. Thus, there is no declaration of independence – yet. No attempt to completely dissolve the Union, until the democratic mandate is clearly established. Scotland would simply be exercising her constitutional rights according in Scots Law and those MPs would be exercising the established democratic mandate already given to them by the sovereign people of Scotland.

Here’s an idea, why don’t we (everyone on Wings and those who support Scottish independence) write a letter politely asking the PM Boris Johnson for a S30.

The letters should be sent to say a AUOB address or a grassroots movement address. From there they should be picked and delivered (hopefully in many sacks) to the door of 10 Downing st, by an array of Scottish bodies, with a rep for each, such SNP Greens, Grassroots movement, Women for Indy, English folk in Scotland for Indy, AUOB etc.

Independence reps would be there outside Number 10 filming it all as the sacks were delivered to Boris. The unionist media might even show it as well.

Back home in Scotland we could upload it onto social media, create leaflets, and have discussions about it. Surely that would put added pressure onto Johnson, to physically see hundreds of thousands if not millions of letters demanding a S30.

Just a thought.

Ian Brotherhood 1 Jan 10.08pm

Thank you, for your kind remarks. I have been reading Wings for years now, although don’t post much at all. Grammar being the worst subject for me in school way back when, so hesitate posting.

The BBC TV programs seem to have been stepped up this past year, to even having a “British Night” every Tuesday night dedicated to British programs.

Three times a day EVERY day we have the Great British Cooking Show, which seems to concentrate on French, German, Dutch Scandinavian pastries , but insist on calling it the GREAT BRITISH COOKING SHOW which I find hilarious.

Keir Starmer is a good speaker. He comes across as intelligent and measured. After a couple of years of Boris Johnston, intelligent and measured may sound like a haven – in England.

A contract is considered unfair:

‘A standard term is unfair ‘if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations arising under the contract.’

Obviously the Treaty of Union is excluded from this scrutiny, after all we now have one of the countries denying the democratic right of the other.

Apart from disrupting the peace process, obvs.

Happy New Year to all.

Sarah 6.22pm 1 Jan

“People happily occupying a ditch for several days”

Best laugh I’ve had in a long while.Just can’t stop laughing imagining this. Happy New year to you too

We will have our family of Nations who will live in peace as friends, but before that we must conquer the Barbarians in the North then Rome will finally have achieved it’s Empire

Marcus Aurelius Caesar

The fall of the Roman Empire began shortly after

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact, everything we see is a perspective, not the truth, M.A.Caesar

Rome had a good run, Nazi Germany a shorter existence, is it time for the Britglish Empire to fall, do the Scottish Barbarians hold the key, and will we use it

Hope so!

Clydebuilt says

“… by exploiting the impoverished British workforce no longer safeguarded by EU health and saftey regs.”

We do the imoverished British workforce no favours by perpetuating remainiac myth that the EU is the later day equivalent of “The friend we have in Jesus”.

The working poor(especially in England) are painfully aware that for the most part, the lower end of the workforce in the agriculture, manufacturing, service and construction industries is dominated by eastern European workers.

And the non-workshy or those trapped by thatchers benefits system which shifted the emphasis from a being a crutch for those who found themselves between jobs, to a rickety wheelchair for those who have given up trying to find a job that comes close to making them as much as a net £1 an hour better off than they would be on the dole.

Find themselves forced to seek employment through agencies – and having to sign a form which opts them out of the European Working Time Directive, and that the “Holiday Pay” “guaranteed” to them by the EU, comes in the form of agreeing to have it docked from their weekly wage, they also find out that they have to pay to have a third parasitical organisation receive their wages from the agency and pass it on to the worker, minus a handling fee and that they have the option of paying the employers national insurance contribution if they want to appear like a PAYE employee or going for full blown bogus self-employment in order to recoup the shortfall by bigging-up “expences” so that the taxman can pay for the parasites.

In short if you think the EU was anxious to save us from the nasty Global Capitalists you are woefully mistaken – That was and is a job for the representatives of the Scottish Workers.

It is high time that the SNP applied for that Job – because I can’t see any other applicants on the horizon.

Did you see on the English News today that the number of people
Requiring NHS England medical assistance for eating disorders
Has doubled since the Tories came in to power.

How BBC Scotland must wish a major story of that magnitude could replace
The 2 year old story about pigeons accessing a hospital vent in Scotland.

You won’t ever hear that English Major crisis story ever again.

Labour supporting rail union official outraged at train fare rises in Scotland?
Many Scottish fares are subsidised by Holyrood and our fares are much lower in England’s
But it seems. SNP are bad again.

Vote for a Westminster Party and make everything worse!

Mr McCawber economics from the Tories, £5 per week extra income for all, £6 per week cost of living increase, result, misery and decline

Time for Mr Dickens to write another book

CameronB Brodie

I was beginning to suspect that The Rev had suspended your link posting privileges

Col.Blimp IV
I think I’ve come close more than once. 😉

@Col.Blimp IV 4.15

Ref vegan wine.
I noticed a couple of weeks ago the ingredient “milk” listed on a bottle of white wine.
Can’t remember right now what brand, but was certainly quite taken aback.

A Bright Yellow Light – 37 mins – Radio interview of Nadim Ednan-Laperouse on the death of his daughter Natasha from an allergic reaction :

link to bbc.co.uk

Are we discovering more allergies or are we becoming weaker thus more susceptible to the same allergens we always had, if it’s the second then we’re in trouble

Eggs can be used in wine making too apparently.
After this wee Wings science class how many vegans are now gonna have to change their wine choices.

You can’t get much cross-over than this, IMHO. The British constitution views Scotland as being different but legally equal to England. Westminster acts as if Scotland is the same but legally inferior to England. International law currently views biological women as being different but legally equal to biological men. Enforsing gender ideology in law transforms this relationship, to one where biological women are considered the same but inferior to biological men. Reason appears to have left contemporary Britain, so here’s some insight in to how the law can reconnect with its roots. A bit of Critical Rationalism.

how the law might be made more rigorous
as a system of analysis and discovery.
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org

@ Fireproofjim – I agree that we tend to kill off good bacteria. But where we need good bacteria is in the gut. We don’t drink water from wells and streams now and the stuff that comes out of the tap is dosed with chlorine. But public water supplies have to be free of germs otherwise we would have epidemics of typhoid, cholera and hepatitis.

Now we have epidemics of allergies.

You could not make it up Sir Keir Starmers standing to be the new leader of the Labour Party I mean a Sir to represent the working class that he deserted to become a Sir ??? Him and his ilk do not belong in the Labour Party and never have done Macconnell Hilary Benn Kinock etc., J Corbyn was a threat to them so with the help of the media they are getting rid of him and the real working class will not be represented again just ignored as usual the things labour do amaze me I mean puting an Englishman in charge in Scotland it’s like a death wish Momentom should clear out all these charlatans and get the real working class in charge for a change

‘The reason that all wines are not vegan or even vegetarian-friendly has to do with how the wine is clarified and a process called ‘fining:

Popular animal-derived fining agents used in the production of wine include blood and bone marrow, casein (milk protein), chitin (fiber from crustacean shells), egg albumen (derived from egg whites), fish oil, gelatin (protein from boiling animal parts), and isinglass (gelatin from fish bladder membranes)’.

Cheers.

Hi Dan.

RE: mineralisation of soil.

You may find this web site an interesting exploration. It is no longer in existence on the web but was captured by the Internet Archive.

That’s my sister and by late brother-in-law you will see in the first pic. The navigation of the site can be a tad frustrating; eg, there are 6 links at the top of the home page but other links appear on different pages, not featured on the home page.

link to web.archive.org

A re-jigged version of the site was captured in August last year, before it demised.

link to web.archive.org

Dan@5.35
I’ve missed your post regarding health issues.
I posted this a while back for another winger who was having issues.
Have a look at a book called “Eat Right 4 Your Type”, its a fantastic book which steers you in the direction of what foods are bad and what are good for you depending on your blood group.
Randy Mamola the ex motorcycle GP rider got me and my wife into it in 2001.
We tried it, “to prove it wouldn’t work”, but when we got right into it,the results were amazing. We have since started to eat some of the bad things, but know how it will effect us.

E.G, Blood group A, don’t eat bananas,or drink orange juice they cause indigestion, also potatoes are out, cow dairy, anything with lactose. (I suffered for years thinking I was eating “healthy foods” like that.
Other blood groups are different.
Get the book on EBay.
Also not to cause alarm, pending on where you are in Scotland, stop drinking the tap water, a mate in the Aviemore area has had issues regarding the water supply, up where we live you can smell chlorine first thing in the morning.(It never used to be like that)

On the allergies topic, I suffered dreadful IBS for years, sometimes used to pass out with the pain. For completely different reasons, I became vegan just over two years ago, cutting out meat first, then a month later dairy. As soon as I cut out dairy, the IBS stopped. Just like that! Within a year, my diabetic blood measurements had returned to normal non-diabetic levels.

From all the research I have done over the years, I think allergies are multi-factorial – the ultra-cleanliness which prevents our immune system from building it’s ‘library’ of allergens, the presence of many unnatural chemicals ( by which I mean they aren’t present in our immediate environment in reactive states normally but have been released by human industrial activity)and the consumption of unnaturally high levels of animal derivatives and secretions. Asians have a high rate of lactose intolerance for instance. And I suspect so do many western peoples hence the development of ‘syndrome’ disorders such as IBS. In countries where dairy consumption is high, the rates of auto-immune disease such as Rheumatoid Arthritis are correspondingly high – milk is pro-inflammatory in the human body, and the calcium in milk which we are told is good for health, is actually in a form which we find hard to absorb and utilise in our bodies. Osteoporosis, therefore is actually higher in populations where dairy consumption is higher.

When I was doing my pharmacology/toxicology degree in the early 90s, it was already known that meat, especially cooked meat, is carcinogenic as well as being contributory to cardiovascular disease. I cant help wondering why this fact is only now becoming known publically. Lobbyists for the meat/dairy industries? And there is still very little discussion of the high levels of toxic heavy metals such as lead in fish, tuna being one of the worst affected, at least in studies from several years ago.

The WHO now recommend a vegan diet for health. Some of the champion weightlifters and athletes in the world are vegan and so are the largest animals like elephants and gorillas.They obtain their protein almost exclusively from plants.

And for any vegans out there who enjoy their wines but find it difficult to source vegan wines, the coop lists theirs, and the wine club Laithwaites has recently brought out some vegan wines.

Very informative, people!

Will look your links up.

@Breeks, your comments are spot on.

“Scotland’s oil should stay in the ground”

That would be a radical policy shift, but attainable over a period of weaning. Start with no oil exports and reduce domestic consumption. Scotland needs to create “Stat”electric.

CameronB Brodie

I read your link about “ the Scottish cringe “ effects of colonialism Sheffield Uni

Very interesting
Something I’ve thought about often in the past so it’s nice to read that someone else noticed it too because many people think it’s there but then give themselves a shake and say no it’s not possible
Is it ??
Then proceed happily in the thought that it isn’t a creation.

When I arrived back in Dundee forty nearly fifty years ago having lived overseas and in England and NI
I was a novelty
Because of my English accent
Schooled in English schools in England and overseas
There really were so so few English spoken people living in Scotland back then

The number is significant now
Census is once a decade
I think the number has grown more quickly this last decade because more people have had money from the sale of a house this last decade than years previous and have used it to buy in Scotland at a lower price for the same or better house with money to spare and perhaps support an earlier retirement than would have been possible in England

Section30?

We don’t need no stinking Section30.

link to archive.is

terence callachan
Crack on there. All the best for the new year, but please stop looking to impose voting restrictions on constitutional matters, that are out of step with other European states, for example. 😉

Academia considered the post-colonial, an ethical perspective from which to view culture and society. Post-colonial feminism in particular. Or at least that was the case a quarter of a century ago, and is probably still the case. The post-colonial follows a gender-critical approach, as biological women tend to disappear from sight and consideration otherwise.

Introducing Postcolonialism in International Relations Theory

Postcolonialism examines how societies, governments and peoples in the formerly colonised regions of the world experience international relations. The use of ‘post’ by postcolonial scholars by no means suggests that the effects or impacts of colonial rule are now long gone. Rather, it highlights the impact that colonial and imperial histories still have in shaping a colonial way of thinking about the world and how Western forms of knowledge and power marginalise the non-Western world.

Postcolonialism is not only interested in understanding the world as it is, but also as it ought to be. It is concerned with the disparities in global power and wealth accumulation and why some states and groups exercise so much power over others. By raising issues such as this, postcolonialism asks different questions to the other theories of IR and allows for not just alternative readings of history but also alternative perspectives on contemporary events and issues.

link to e-ir.info

Ah!

So that’s how Brigadoon is such an accurate representation of Scotland!

link to twitter.com

What s when you are colonised ….yes we know …that’s what they’ve done to scotland

On the other hand in his portrait of the colonized Memmi touches on three areas: ‘Mythical portrait of the colonized’, ‘Situations of the colonized’ and ‘The two answers of the colonized’. In the first he argues that a mythical portrait is constructed on a dialectic of good and bad, where the good always generates from the colonizer and the bad from the colonized. Nothing the colonized can do can alter this myth, for example, Arab hospitality which can hardly be seen in a negative light, is turned on its head by the colonizer; it comes to be seen as ‘the colonized’s irresponsibility and extravagance, since he has no notion of foresight or economy’

Fionan: “…as climate change reaches the point of no return, in around eight years according to some experts.”

A shill for the energy industry, or just a moron?

terence callachan
Well there you go, nice one prof.

Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and Liberia
link to journals.sagepub.com

terence callachan
I stand corrected.

Good Jobe or bad jobe

CameronB Brodie…..

Thanks …downloaded …will read

Just seen an advert by Jose Mourinho for a gambling web site?

The football manager has had an annual salary of over £10 million for the last decade and
Very good wages for a decade prior to that.

He first got sacked at Chelsea FC and picked up around £16 Million on a settlement.
He returned a few years later and was sacked again picking up only £6 Million this time.

Manchester United sacked him and paid around £22 Million for the privilege.

He worked as a punter for TV stations at the World Cup picking up 450,000 per day.

He currently earns £288,000 per week with Tottenham Hotspur.

This guy needs a job selling on line gambling to the gullible?

FFS

Colin Alexander @12.04.

Simply put –

The Act of Union was not brought about by a referendum but by Scottish parliamentarians voting to suspend the Scottish Parliament to facilitate a Union.

Why then is it the alleged law that Scotland requires a referendum to bring about an end to the Union. Indeed, it was Margaret Thatcher’s view no less that all that was needed to end the Union was for a majority of Scottish MPs to vote for that.

All this talk of constitution and the requirements for 90% of one eyed, one legged Scots to pirouette on their missing leg all subject to an S30 order granted by the supreme Westminster is a load of tosh. Westminster are making it up as they go along making Jocko Monkey dance on the end of a string.

So, get to it SNP, I’m sure there’s enough legal firepower to establish that Westminster does not have the legal authority to stop Scottish MPs adopting alternative actions. Let’s push this so called Brit constitution to destruction.

Put even more simply. Scotland voted to return over 80% SNP MPs.

By comparison Borish Johnson has nothing like 80% of the MPs or the percentage vote that the SNP was given in Scotland, but hey, he sees it as a stinking majority that allows him to do what he likes in Scotland.

So tell me how this act of Union – British Constitution works, is it English man kick Scottish man in head and repeatedly so until Scottish man give in to English man superiority. Seems so Jiocko, now fuck off and be quiet and take your SNP monkeys with you.

Love the artwork!

@ Fionan – RN is all three. Just ignore.

Spotted some LibDem claiming to be pansexual, what is this, some sort of kitchen utensil fetish?

Looks like we may not need to worry about climate change anyway as the end of the world took a step closer thanks to our best friends in the States who have killed a top Iranian general with a drone strike.

They are now hustling their countrymen out of Iraq in case of massive retaliation. Not to mention the Israeli PM has scuttled back to Israel in case it over spills into his interfering country which has been fighting inside Syria.

I’m sure our wondrous P.M will somehow succeed in blaming Russia.

News article headline on my email site reads like it was Scotland’s fault, but the following few sentences tell a different story.

“Scotland could have helped England prevent blood tragedy, document suggests

Hundreds of haemophiliacs could have been spared infection with HIV if England had sought help from Scotland in manufacturing blood products, new documents suggest.

A letter dated January 1990 shows Scotland had previously had spare capacity to help England produce the much-need blood product Factor VIII, but Government officials in England rejected the idea.

Instead, England continued to import large amounts of Factor VIII from risky sources abroad, including US prisoners and drug addicts who were infected with diseases including HIV.

The contaminated blood scandal has been labelled the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, leaving thousands of patients infected with hepatitis and HIV, and causing many early deaths.

Most of those involved had the blood-clotting disorder haemophilia and relied on regular injections of Factor VIII to survive.

But they were unaware they were receiving contaminated Factor VIII and, despite repeated warnings, continued to be given the product throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

The latest document was released under the Freedom of Information Act to campaigner Jason Evans, whose father died in 1993 having contracted hepatitis and HIV.

In it, Professor John Cash, a former director of the Scottish Blood Transfusion Service, said the decision not to use Scotland’s spare capacity to produce Factor VIII for England was “a grave error of judgement”.

Scotland had been virtually self-sufficient in the manufacture of its Factor VIII which took place at the Protein Fractionation Centre (PFC) in Liberton, a suburb to the south of Edinburgh.

The letter said the Scottish PFC had had “very substantial” spare capacity, which had been verified during an experiment at the centre.

Mr Cash wrote: “It was assumed by those of us on the shop floor that this experiment would expedite arrangements to give England and Wales assistance – but nothing materialised.”

Mr Cash also spoke of “serious defects in the operational liaison” between the Scottish Home and Health Department and the Department of Health and Social Services in England.

He had attempted to “persuade on numerous occasions” those higher up of the need for joint working, but to no avail.

He added: “I sense the ineptitudes of the past – 1970s and 1980s – are about to catch up with us.”

Mr Evans, founder of the Factor 8 campaign group, said: “This is an incredible piece of evidence.

“We have testimony in black and white here, from a very senior source, which effectively shows hundreds of HIV infections within the haemophilia community could and should have been prevented.

“The statistics say it all – 59 haemophiliacs were infected with HIV in Scotland, as opposed to 1,243 in England, where a high proportion of HIV-infected Factor VIII from the US was used.

“It fills me with a distinct sense of horror that so many of these people would still be alive if it were not for the total negligence that took place.”

Des Collins, senior partner of Collins Solicitors, representing 1,400 victims and families, said self-sufficiency in Factor VIII is one of the main issues currently being investigated by the current public inquiry into contaminated blood.

He added: “It is obvious that had the UK produced more of its own Factor VIII products, which this evidence makes clear was entirely possible, there would have been far fewer HIV infections.”

In 2016, former health minister Lord Owen said his pledge to make the country self-sufficient in Factor VIII was scrapped in the dawn of the first Thatcher government.

He said “that programme was effectively starved of money, blocked and they gave up self-sufficiency”.

In 2017, Prof Cash told a BBC Panorama programme that “if you look at the difference between England and Scotland in terms of the outcomes, you have to conclude, that it was not unavoidable, it was avoidable.”

A Department of Health and Social Care spokeswoman said: “The infected blood tragedy should never have happened and the ongoing public inquiry was set up to get to the truth and give families the answers they deserve.

“We are committed to being open and transparent with the inquiry and have waived the usual legal privileges to assist the process.”

The infected blood inquiry will resume its public hearings in February 2020.”

@mike cassidy & jfngw

I think I might be pansexual as love my new airfryer chip pan, and have had numerous steamy affairs with colanders.

Dorothy Devine @ 9.41am
Aye… And the last time the US messed with Iran in a big way the retaliation brought us the Lockerbie Atrocities!!
And still we don’t learn to get as far away as possible from the US and it’s side kick Westminster….
Both of whom put the target on our backs that is Faslane and and Coleport.

Liz g says:
3 January, 2020 at 11:23 am
Dorothy Devine @ 9.41am
Aye… And the last time the US messed with Iran in a big way the retaliation brought us the Lockerbie Atrocities!!
And still we don’t learn to get as far away as possible from the US and it’s side kick Westminster….
Both of whom put the target on our backs that is Faslane and and Coleport.

Thing is too, at the risk of sounding picky about your method of ex judicial assassination, there seems something cowardly about killing people by drone.

I mean, I get the logic that you’re not risking you’re own people, but the people you are bombing on the ground will just be all the more incensed at the craven cowardice of the delivery. To me it seems absolutely certain that it will turn moderates into radicals more effectively than any hate fuelled Imam.

If you really can reach out your hand of death with such omnipotence, then what would it pain you to actually prove guilt in an accredited judicial process beforehand? This wasn’t a death sentence, it was an extrajudicial assassination. In dispassionate and objective terms, it was both a murder and an act of war.

America has been looking increasingly ugly for some time now. It’s an ugliness that’s more than skin deep and it’s going to endure for many years and decades to come. What kind of people do you think these Mexican children separated from their parents and kept in cages will grow up to become? Asking you Donald Trump, you wicked and spectacular arsehole.

Sadly, in Boris Johnson, the UK has a rotten flunky who is just as craven, and will sign their endorsement on any atrocity for which Trump needs an accomplice.

Put an end to this Union. I want no part of it.

Willie 10.19am.

As I remember it the ship carrying the body bags docked and unloaded in the middle of the night. No grand parade for those boys. Or maybe I don’t remember it correctly.

Breeks @ 12.56
I want no part of it either Breeks…
And would also like to point out that had we voted to leave in 2014 and were independent right now…
If we’d also agreed to rent Faslane and Coleport to Westminster that target would still be very much on Scottish Backs…
( I’m not talking about a full scale nuclear strike here,I’m talking about a specific attack on the base)
We need to get well away from the US/UK warmongering!

Retaliation may be on the cards.

An attack on Saudi oil assets, the sinking of a few tankers in the straits of Hormuz,a flurry of false flag incidents, and the turning of Iran into a Syria writ large.

Yee haw Cowboy,and Blighty will be doing it.

link to xymphora.blogspot.com

Joe
I thought you’d already decided we were below you. Sure enough, a non-judicial killing is a non-judicial killing, and one US president is pretty much like the others. But you’re not seriously trying to justify this latest act of moral irresponsibility?