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Posted on
January 02, 1968 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For off-topic chat. Duh.
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William Wallace @ 3.03
Aw sorry I missed you at Dundee…
Had been wondering how you’ve been keeping?
But I’m taking it that since you made the trip your.. gettin oan wi it…
Hope to see you at Edinburgh
Stay well my friend
@William Wallace
I saw a big guy with an Anonymous mask on near the Wings stall. Myself and Ian B were around there for a couple of hours.
Next time Wullie if you ask big Ronnie or any other Winger you meet at the stall they should be able to point us out. I would have liked to have met you. So see you in Edinburgh 🙂
@ Liz
Been keeping a lot better Liz and thank you for asking. Would have been nice to say hello to you in Dundee but, hopefully, I will finally get a chance to say hi in Edinburgh. Hope you had a great day out.
@ PNR
I think that might have been my son ( he pinched my mask for the march and I had already gifted the other one to smallaxes grandson at Dumfries 🙂 ) I was stood next to him (my son) most of the time with the three flags on a fishing pole (HoF [top], Wings[middle] and Estelada [bottom]).
Hopefully, I’ll see you and the rest of you I have not yet met in Edinburgh. Looking forward to that one, it should be massive.
What..oh what has happened to the Wings Twitter feed?
Is this a supposed upgrade? I hate it and get banner straplines at the bottom of my screen asking if I want to continue receiving feed from this app WHICH I DONT HAVE!!!!…..(mercury blows the tap aff the …..)….HELP!!!
Nicola released the following 20 mins ago
A statement from Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon said:
“Complaints were made in January relating to Alex Salmond by two individuals.
“These complaints have been considered since then under a procedure covering ministers and former ministers that was agreed by me in December 2017 in the wake of public concern about harassment.
“Although I have been aware for some time of the fact of the investigation – initially from Alex Salmond – I have had no role in the process, and to have referred to it before now would have compromised the integrity of the internal investigation, which I was not prepared to do. However, I was informed by the Permanent Secretary earlier this week that she had completed her investigation and that she intended to make the fact of the complaints public.
“Alex Salmond is now challenging the Scottish Government’s procedure in court. The Scottish Government refutes his criticisms of its process and will defend its position vigorously.
“However, this focus on process cannot deflect from the fact that complaints were made that could not be ignored or swept under the carpet.
“I have been clear on many occasions that all organisations and workplaces must make it possible for people to come forward to report concerns and have confidence that they will be treated seriously. For that principle to mean anything it cannot be applied selectively. It must be applied without fear or favour, regardless of the identity, seniority or political allegiance of the person involved.
“My relationship with Alex Salmond obviously makes this an extremely difficult situation for me to come to terms with. I am also acutely aware how upsetting this will be for my party. However the over-riding priority must be to ensure fair and due process. I would also ask that the privacy of those who have complained be respected.”
EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE
Permanent European Union Citizenship
link to eci.ec.europa.eu
Sign up folks, could be useful.
Chick, I’m presuming when the FM says,”The Scottish Government refutes his criticisms of its process and will defend its position vigorously” she means the “Scottish” civil service at Holyrood, who are employed by the UK government under a Permanent Secretary it appoints.
The wording of the press release makes it seem as if Alex Salmond is at odds with the SG and thus his own party, which I find strange.
Wonder what I’ll say about the AS stuff on Argyll Independent radio tonight. Unprepared as its Cowal Games tomorrow and the day has been spent making up rolls and soup for the Forward Shop in Dunoon tomorrow
@DMH: do you have to initiate any discussion? I notice The Rev. is giving it a wide berth, for obvious legal reasons.
I expect it to be dragged out for a while by MSM.
Use your teacher training and keep a firm hand 😛
@ BDTT – wow – reggae bagpipes and crooning! Didn’t think that would be possible. But now I remember that Ian Brotherhood posted a link to 50 Cent singing It’s Your Birthday to the bluebell polka. Jimmy Shand vs 50 Cent.
link to youtube.com
@ DMH – I have a Peter Tosh vinyl album. Just away to check and see if it has that Johnny B Goode version. I didn’t know that Mick and Keith had been into reggae though his “Indian Girl” was certainly influenced by S America – I thought maybe by Bianca.
link to youtube.com
Now imagine the Edinburgh marchers skanking their way down the High Street!
Tinto Chiel at 6.58
Tend to be with you on that. We should pay little attention as it has nothing to do with the case for independence.
Huge respect for Nicola’s wisdom and strength here. She has acted in such a way that it is impossible for the media to attack the SNP.
Interesting to watch the snippets of interviews with AS today, but with the sound muted.
@hackalumpoff
EUROPEAN CITIZENS’ INITIATIVE
Permanent European Union Citizenship
link to eci.ec.europa.eu
Just added my name to that list, noted that 68% of those that have signed are from the UK. No surprise there then.
@Ian Brotherhood: I’m down at my daughter’s at the mo and have just seen footage of Monica Lennon commenting on the AS situation. I had a weird deja vu experience which reminded me of Malcolm Malcolm at the Politics Bar, which I know is one of your faves, full of strange barings of teeth and frankly weird head position.
In fact, something like this:
link to youtube.com
I’m still waiting for she and Rhoda Grant to get their story straight regarding the serious sexual harassment Monica complained of some time ago but which now seems to have disappeared up the collective BLiS______d lum. Oh, for an interview with her on that instead of her grinning grandstanding.
I’ve been expecting a big move against AS or NS for a while. I presume its appearance just now indicates Establishment explosive diarrhoea following some disappointing polling results.
All diversion from October, of course.
@Tinto Chiel
It’s a big move against AS right enough and the civil servant at the centre of it all, Leslie Evans turns 60 in December after working her entire adult life in government.
Just saying.
link to en.wikipedia.org
Hi guys and gals, hope everyone’s well!
Since I haven’t been in for a while I thought I’d better not show up at the door empty-handed 🙂
youtu.be/T4rf7bAApM4
and if I need to explain one more time that Leonard is not depressing he’s just being honest…
Och, Alex, I think I’m just going to avoid any further comment on this situation, and try to take WGD’s advice to rise above it all. I’m feeling pretty sick at the enormous Yoon hypocrisy/gloating over this but we knew it was coming for someone in the SG some time soon and perhaps it will have unexpected and beneficial consequences for Yes.
As DMH said, you have to admire the FM for gritting her teeth and doing the right thing in the midst of the meeja storm.
My hope is we are very close to endgame now.
@Tinto Chiel
Well said and it is the most reasonable approach to take. Paul’s two posts of the past 48hrs are bang on the nail IMV. Scotland’s electorate cannot afford to allow the media to dictate their attention or drive the agenda.
Brexit is falling apart in the most ungodly mess. Raab’s statement next to Barnier was merely a glimpse. It was the picture of a man who has seen his world view and his confidence shaken to its core. Hammond’s release of the impending costs and the on again off again release of the contingency papers, should be a heads up as to the political and social catastrophe headed our way.
A wave of austerity that will make the past ten years look like days of plenty. We allow the meeja and their chain tuggers to take our eyes off that at our peril.
Follow up on the complimentary National exercise.
Now finished and the National reports an increase in circulation for the area in a piece today.
I’ve never been accused of being reasonable before, Sam 😛 ‘cos usually my red mist descends at some bit of Britnat skulduggery or hypocrisy and I say things I sometimes regret later. I admire your ability to not get dragged into the squabbles on the M/T and stay focused on what really matters.
My handler and I attended all but one of the summer marches so far and it’s no surprise The Watchers are getting worried. They were all happy, well-attended affairs which were really morale boosting (for the shy Yessers/undecideds on the pavements too, I’m sure).
Hoping for a Mega Embra March to finish off in style and have the fruit loops frothing.
Bonus track: I have managed to obtain for the soffisticates on here a bootleg copy of Donald Trump secretly recording the new post-Brexit UK national anthem for Jacob Rees-Mogg, whom you can just make out on the paper and comb if you listen hard:
link to youtube.com
HI Folks looking forward to catching up with you all on the Streets of Edinburgh on October the 6th. link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
Dae ma bestest tae get tae Embra in October. 🙂
As for staying focused? S’easy. I stick to readin’ the folks I know have something informative to say or contribute and sayin’ hi tae ma chums.
Folk aren’t daft. They can spot the trouble makers and contrarians a mile off. I’m guessing they do the same as me. One sight of a name and you walk on by without even reading their guff. Stick to the folk you like and the reading experience improves in leaps and bounds.
Also? The stress levels drop and your hair grows back. In my case… on my back. Oot ma ears and the palms of my hands.
You’ve seen my avatar? That. 😀
@Macart: hee hee hee. Have you tried a wet shave? I use Nivea Sensitive Gel.
I shall try to follow your Dionne Warwick Strategy to maintain my mental equilibrium on line.
Hi, Michael. Would have liked to have talked longer with you @Stirling but, as I recall, That There Thepnr took you to a pub for a cultural phenomenon or two.
6/10/18: the Far East is the place to be for a Darkest Lanarkshire chiel.
@Chick McGregor
Well done Chic as it looks like your distributing of the National in your area might have paid off. It was a great initiative and you deserve some plaudits for the efforts.
Cheers from me.
If you all feel like me right now then I know exactly how your feeling. Thing is though I also know I will put it behind me shortly and get on with the job in hand and that is winning our Independence.
We’ll all be back doing our bit soon, something to look forward too is Edinburgh, this has the potential to stun all the No voters and I have a feeling that the carry on over the last two days will boost support for that.
One thing is certain and that is Yes supporters won’t lie down so we’ll be back alright.
Thanks Alex
Yep, a bit gutted and angered at the moment, more the latter I think.
I know this isn’t really off topic – but am placing it here so it doesn’t cut across the main thread on Effie Dean. If anyone wants to re-post it elsewhere, I leave that to them and Stu.
Interesting reading, anyway.
link to theguardian.com
Help!
Is there any way to prevent half-written comments suddenly posting themselves for no apparent reason??
Happened to me twice today.
I do not think I ever got near the “submit” button.
This sort of thing can put you off commenting.
Evenin’ vlad, what kind of device are ye using to post.. desktop computer, iPad, mobile phone?
Sometimes it’s good to draft a post and copy it all across from your notepad software (if ur on a desktop,) then post.
Peek-a-boo Smallaxe on the MT 🙂
Mini-burp at 9.
Hi Cactus,
A word from our sponsors;
Honey Cone:”Innocent Til’ Proven Guilty”
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😉
Welcome back Smallaxe… was beginning to worry about you..
Hope you are keeping well
Tell Mrs Smallaxe I’m asking for her XX
Excellent Smallaxe, you got the groovy, Wings Over WOW, that is such an uplifting song!!
Nice backing vocals 🙂
A big dedication to ye all.
Let us do it again:
link to youtube.com
Ah just had tae:
link to youtube.com
You understand, “cause aye do it too.”
Put your hands on your face.
Go crazy like!
@vlad
Like Cactus, if I’m going to post a longish one I usually just type it in Notepad first then cut and paste. No spell checker in Notepad so mind check before you hit the submit button.
Sometimes I forget LOL.
Hi Liz,
I’m convalescing for a while but I’ll pop in now and again. Mrs S. sends her love and regards, as do I.
🙂
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes:”Wake Up Everybody”
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe
Great to have you back on Off Topic. Saved this for you 🙂
link to youtube.com
@Cactus
Peek-A-Boo Tremendous 🙂 🙂
Thepnr, Good work on the M/T, I’ve been watching.
“So Good To Be Back Home Again”
link to youtube.com
😉
Cactus,
Peek a Boo
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe
Great choice 🙂
“We All Stand Together”
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe
You’re a rascal, nearly had me greeting LOL
Aye, chin up always and never be divided 🙂
Nearly greeting, pnr? That’s because you have one of these that I’ve been searching for;
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe
I don;t know if you know this but I’m pretty sure I the first person to play that here on O/T. Played it at least 3 times, a favourite of my brothers.
I’ve told this story before on Wings but I’ll tell again in case you missed it first time.
So I’m sitting in a disco with the brother in the early 80’s there’s a “late to the party” punk rocker with a mini kilt over his jeans, the usual pins and a huge blonde mohican sticky up spikey hair.
So the punk has the girls, lots of them and the brother steps in and asks for a dance with one. Goes great and then he has them lapping up his patter with the poor mohican being ignored.
Of course he doesn’t take kindly to this and turns on my brother saying “Do ye know you look like Fergal Sharkey”.
John straight off says “and you look like Orville the Duck”
the lassies nearly peed themselves laughing at Orville and he then looked like the not so Mr Cool.
OK it was a long time ago but so funny then I can’t forget it now. That song always brings back those old memories but without memories such as those there wouldn’t be much point.
And no. I’m not greeting I’m smiling 🙂
I’n’I Mi sey goodnight now gud people Sleep well mi brothas an sistas.
“Turn Your Lights Down Low”
link to youtube.com
Thepnr,
Please, accept my apologies for signing off last night without refreshing the page and in doing so, missed the amusing story that you had posted. Here’s a wee song from Bob to start the morning;
Bob Marley:”Duppy Conqueror”
link to youtube.com
Duppy = Ghost
Good to see you cuttin aboot Sma. 🙂
Cha’n eil fealladh ann cho mòr ris an gealladh gun choimhlionadh!
Meh tap fehve 😉
The Gael
link to youtube.com
The Uprising
link to youtube.com
1320
link to youtube.com
Hope over Fear
link to youtube.com
Loch Lomond ( The Flamingo email saga 😉 )
link to youtube.com
Peace and Love Brithers an Sisters 🙂
Pished again! 😉
Hi Will,
Yer tap wan?
link to youtube.com
Stay cool, buddy.
😉
Complimentary National update.
The circulation increase in the area covered by my little punt has exceeded expectations.
If extrapolated nation wide The National’s circulation would rise to similar levels of that of the Sun and Record.
Staff at The National are very excited by it and have been holding meetings to discuss what to do about it.
@ William Wallace…..YES!
A classic line at the end of the eleventh paragraph in Michael Fry’s piece in today’s National
Dashed off a wee poem
A weel kent guy has touched a tit
Who ever wid have believed it?
And bum as weel, or so we’re telt
(Hoo mony extra Records selt?)
Witnesses ? Nane to be foond
Buy what a story going roond
She made her way upstairs tae the bed
(Nae proof o’ that it must be said)
But if she did why did she risk it
She thought she’d get a Penguin biscuit?
Aye, right.
Chick McGregor,
Great work, Chick. Well done, sir, for turning people on to the National!
link to youtube.com
🙂
“Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don’t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.”
[John Lennon]
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DMH,
🙂 🙂
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Fred,
Sober up!
😉
Well done, Chick.
Those who derive amusement from the farce that is the Skripal Affair may enjoy this:
link to craigmurray.org.uk
Seems many of the BBC’s reporters are “spooky”, if you get my drift.
Chick,
I am so pleased that it went so well. I did think it seemed a really good idea at the time for people to actually have a copy.
Most people, even if they know it exists won’t have tried a copy for lots of reasons. The lack of visibility in the shops that sell it being the main one and habit, which is possibly one of the biggest drivers of newspaper sales.
Chick,
I’m thrilled at your success – I thought it was a good idea and hoped urban-area Yessers would follow your example. [ I’d like to do it too but a rural i.e. 10 miles from the nearest shop, and only rare forays to it, adds some extra difficulties. I’ve not been in to collect our own Nationals yet so haven’t even seen the report of your success in print!]
If the National’s readership rises, so do our chances of success at the next referendum.
Thought you historical vile seps might like this trailer of a trailer:
link to youtube.com
I’m just waiting for the Britnat wailing and gnashing of teeth when it comes out.
Can’t wait for Grouse Beater’s film review either.
Treeza,
Here are some weans to show you how it’s done.
link to youtube.com
Did ye clock their Armani outfits, ya fuckin dancer!
James Taylor:”Shower the People”
link to youtube.com
Carly Simon:”The Right Thing to Do”
link to youtube.com
Carole King:”I Feel the Earth Move”
link to youtube.com
Melanie Safka:”Dust in the Wind”
link to youtube.com
@Chick
Great news, glad to hear too that it has raised the interest of the staff at the National. Put that one down as a result! 🙂
Marianne Faithfull:”Working Class Hero”
link to youtube.com
Leonard Cohen:”Anthem”
link to youtube.com
Joan Baez:”Brothers in Arms”
link to youtube.com
Buffy Sainte-Marie & Tanya Tagaq:”You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind)”
link to youtube.com
Ry Cooder:”How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live”
link to youtube.com
Eagles:”Turn To Stone”
link to youtube.com
James Taylor:”You Can Close Your Eyes”
link to youtube.com
Sarah et al, thanks and Sarah, here is a link to The National article.
link to thenational.scot
Circulation change figures I have been given by The National are, well, mind blowing if extrapolated nationally.
Cautionary note is, as always, the small sample size my effort represents but certainly more than enough to justify further similar testing.
Jeezo Smallaxe ye were hot last night kid!
Yeah, some great tracks Smallaxe but I prefer my music to be a bit harder edged:
link to youtube.com
Rev, I think you should think about doing a piece on the Cairnross Review? We only have only until 14 Sept to stop this.
The National are going to deliver free bulk newspapers to people and groups who can deliver to potential readers in their area on Saturday 8th Sep.
Great, but not exactly how I would have gone about it.
Will need to email them.
Chick,
I was about to email my Yes group to suggest we follow your example i.e. order some extra copies over a period for delivery – not to everyone at once but spread out.
But the National are doing it all on one day. This requires us to be available to do the work on that particular day i.e. is less flexible. On the other hand the copies are free!
What will your suggestion be to The National? I will hold back from contacting my group until I hear your thoughts.
Sarah,
There is an official email from the National now doing the rounds and the scale is not as I first feared when I saw a preliminary text.
I did in fact email them before I saw the official email, my main concern being the problem of ensuring sufficient newsagent stock increase provision to service the new demand. If someone decides to buy a National the next day but the local shop is sold out, in all likelihood they may never bother again.
The way I did it, 10 per day for a month, meant that normal stock control mechanisms had time to cope with it.
10,000 newspapers is the target bulk free distribution, that sounds a lot, but provided the Yes groups intimate to the National which areas they plan to cover, it is a manageable figure for stock targeting.
A similar exercise could be repeated, preferably for areas not previously covered (which requires someone keeping a note of postcode areas already done, ideally a completion list/map would be available for perusal)
So when the official email hit my mailbox I had to email them again with an apology. Hee haw!
Great playlist last night, Smallaxe. Glad to see you back.
Chick,
Thanks for the detail. Now I can ask my group if they’d like to take some. I’m quite excited at the prospect of increasing The National’s circulation to significant levels!
Sarah
It’s still pretty much a trial effort and will not increase the nationwide figure dramatically but it should for those local areas participating and if it does would give the green light for more a much larger effort.
Chick,
You are due a medal! One day….
@Chick McGregor
I got an email today from a social network platform with the same name as your good self. I haven’t responded as it could have been from anyone. Was it you?
Thepnr
Yep Alex, I followed Gordon Ross’s recommend over to WEME.
Looks a bit like FB but without the ads and much better photo and video res.
Still trying to figure it all out.
Sarah
Shucks! Just a foot soldier who got lucky with an idea.
@Chick McGregor
OK I’ve signed up and have left you a message 🙂
OK Alex, answered.
You should check out the quality of Gordon’s video today (after he figured out how to enable the HD).
Chick,
Too modest!
WeMe sounds great – no adverts targeted at one because they have analysed ones activity. I always thought that was sinister.
link to youtube.com
“Life is one big road with lots of signs, yes!
So when you riding through the ruts
Don’t you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy!
Don’t bury your thoughts
Put your dream to reality, yeah!”
Soon come. Seen?
Cearc, are there still housing association houses free around your part? Can you email me please if so?
Does anyone else know of any small cottages for reasonable rent, with garden, where dogs allowed? Or land for caravan + garden area? Please email me if you know.
These hep cats can really swing.
The sham-gabbit drummer’s a drole fellow, too.
link to youtube.com
Arrividerci, Erchies.
A sad, non-football related story about Govan. I can’t believe so many of these stones were destroyed as recently as 1988. Does anyone on here know anything about this?
link to youtube.com
In Welsh, Govan means “little hill” and may refer to the old mound near the church. Govanhill, further east, used to be known as Little Govan.
Sham-gabbit ah huvnae heard since Jimmy Hill, Tinto.
@Tinto Chiel
A catchy number! You must have saw this one “The Brexit Shuffle”
link to youtube.com
Thepnr: I have sent your clip to David Icke as incontrovertible proof that Treeza is one of the Lizard People who control the Illuminati and seek to reclaim the Earth. I presume her Arthur Askey on stilts hubby stayed at home to avoid embarrassment or work on his hedge fund.
“Sham-gabbit” is a favourite of my handler, Fred, along with “Shift it, Poindexter!” and “Ya thowless gomeril.”
Ah, The Laydees, eh?
Forgot to warn you re American pronunciation in the Govan video.
An abomination, soanitis!
@Fred
Looks like you nailed the cottage in that “cartoon” from today’s times. Ian Brotherhood has linked to a picture over on the MT. same place for sure.
Awright abody?
Hope all well there.
Long time since I posted some James Brown, but this one’s a wee bit different…
It’s JB and Bobby Byrd doing Sex Machine in Italy in ’71.
Question – are they lip-synching?
I’m as sure as I can be that they are, but it’s affy hard tae tell, eh?
Hoots all!
🙂 🙂 🙂
link to youtube.com
” Arthur Askey on stilts ” LOL
Chick, for your delectation:
link to youtube.com
Ian B: are you aware of Stuart Cosgrove’s withering critique of James Brown as a person? They shared a taxi, I think, and proved the maxim, “Never meet your hero.”
I must demur: I met Willie (Billy in Embra) Hunter of Motherwell FC and Scotland and he was a proper gent. Still writes poetry for charity and works with footballers stricken with forms of dementia.
The Motherwell Nijinsky, imo.
Hello playmates.
Just a quick word to say, if any of you are planning to participate in the promo for The National on 8th Sep in your area, I strongly recommend putting them through letter boxes rather than handing out in the street or at stalls.
I just have a gut feeling that street and stall hand outs will not produce the same result. After all, other nespapers have done similar in the past to no noticeable effect.
A friend who helped deliver some also feels that the surrounding ribbon might be a factor. The breaking of it triggering a kind of psychological buy in so they are more inclined to read than bin.
Chick,
I’ll pass the guidance on – I feel both points are right. Picking something off your own mat, in your own space, is more personal than from a stall, and then the choosing to open the ribbon means the reader is taking control. [Not that I’m an expert!]
Fionan,
For the first time in years all the cottages in Kirk road seemed to be occupied when I was last there. So I checked on the website but nothing.
link to trustha.org.uk
If I hear of anything I’ll let you know. I’ll be in the village on monday so will see if there are any ads in the shop.
Everything has went all quiet again over on the MT so here’s something just a totty bitdifferent.
Officially the greatest racehorse ever, unbeaten and here are all 14 wins. Even if you have no interest in racing you’ll recognise a superstar when you see one.
link to youtube.com
For the ‘Civil War’
link to youtube.com
I’m gone again. Peace to ALL!
🙂
Hi Thepnr at 9:23 pm.
You typed,
“Everything has went all quiet again over on the MT so here’s something just a totty bitdifferent.
Officially the greatest racehorse ever”
Och, I thought you were going to link to this famous racehorse…
link to youtube.com
Ian McCubbin. May have something for you on subject you raised in current thread. Email me on: derekrcameron@btinternet.com
The end is nigh
link to s3.amazonaws.com
OK sorry about that, this time with subtitles
link to twitter.com
In need of a laugh? look no further -funniest use of googley eyes ever.
link to twitter.com
Enjoyed WGD’s thoughts today on the latest poll and the thought that, despite all the MSM lies and smears, we are almost in the majority before our independence campaign has even started.
Britnat incomprehension and panic must be rising to Corporal Jones levels but my favourite of this kind of reaction is Ceausescu having his Timosoara Moment, when he realises the whole rotten show is up and he can’t even count on his army:
link to youtube.com
@Tinto Chiel
I watched that and found it fascinating, right after it finished this was the next one up which is a longer version, I’m guessing from a documentary that uses the same footage but with a good bit more explanation as to what was happening.
Good stuff this here education you can get on Wings.
link to youtube.com
Yes, Thepnr, the long version is much better. You almost feel sorry for The Great Dictator as he can’t believe his whole world is crumbling away before his eyes. Not even the state propagandist TV can help him anymore, or the folk at the front ordered to clap and hold up the banners. He even has a Burly Man a la Ruthie.
I was at a talk given by Lesley Riddoch last night following a showing of the Phantom Power film on The Faroes and she was warning of a very bumpy and disastrous Brexit ride. WM’s time is up and we need to grab our chance for our children and grandchildren’s sake.
An interesting footnote to the evening was when she was asked if she had offered the Phantom Power film to the BBC. She said she hadn’t even considered it, knowing, for example, that the Faroese remarks about Scotland and its potential and resources at the end of the programme would never have been broadcast.
She had written to the head of STV about showing the film but it was politely rejected.
For all their media power, I feel the Britnat hysteria we are seeing just now in their media shows they feel things are slipping away from them, like the old guy on the rostrum in Timisoara.
We have Lesley Riddoch and her films on Iceland and the the Faroes at the cinema in Dunoon on Thursday evening at 7.30. All welcome
Aye aye, with an excellent ladyfootball result, ah went oot an got masel a kerryootah anna put oan ah couple of lines furra later like.
Celebrate guid times, come on. 🙂
Empower yerselves y’all.
Fucking Yes! 😉
DJ…
Cactus,
“The Power”
link to youtube.com
Enjoy yer kerryoota.
I’m gone again. Peace to All.
🙂
Hey Smallaxe, thx, ra next autoplay video after yours was this one like:
link to youtube.com
Peace tae ye too, gonna come doon on the choo-choo again soon tae see you-you, gimme a shout when suits yee’s dude X.
Here’s the reality of the truth Wingers…
InMyHO… girls are better dancers than boys. FACT.
(see above)
Fair play to the dude in the above though…
Pullin’ some groovy shapes.
Ladies WIN.
Hi Smallaxe.
It’s good to see you droppin’ into “off-topic” now and again.
You’ve been a pal over the past year or three at the various rallies. Hope to see you at the biggest ever in the known multiverse (quoting Sheldon Cooper) in Edinburgh on 6th October.
Don’t know if I’ve ever stuck this link in “off-topic” before but I was always impressed by this band – some great singles, This is the best (12″/album) version of the song. Listen to how the guitar theme from the intro is repeated later in the track.
link to youtube.com
Cactus,
I’ll hopefully see you in Edinburgh but at the moment;
link to youtube.com
So I have to do this for a while;
link to youtube.com
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A tune wi’ a lassie singin’;
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Stay cool Cactus. 😎
Smallaxe,
Aye for Edinburgh 🙂
Let number two take care of you x.
Mwah to missus smallaxe xx.
Independence imminent.
Cactus @ 10.06,… apart from me!
I shall miss not being able to dance next week when –
link to youtube.com
are playing in Lochinver.
Hi Brian,
Good band, I wasn’t aware of them but I’ll check out some more of their stuff.
An oldie but IMO, the best version;
link to youtube.com
Hoping to meet you in Edinburgh, my friend.
😉
Cacts 10.06
…apart from me!
I shall miss not dancing when …
youtube.com/watch?v=HJyOlFmqd1M
play in Lochinver next week.
Hey cearc, love the Wolfstone, ahm planning to drive around the circumference of Scotland and back again to Glasgow.
Ah’ll let ye know ye when ahm heading up if yer about furra visit xx.
To iEdinburgh soon.
6/10/18.
FAO Dave McEwan Hill
Should cheques be made out to Forward Shop or Yes Cowal (sorry can’t find your original post) Cheers
“Yes Cowal” Shinty. Cheers
DMH -Thanks.
Hi Smallaxe.
That’s one of my favourite albums! I have it on vinyl and CD.
When I was going to church hall and youth club dances in 1967/68, every band with an organist did the Vanilla Fudge version of that song. One I recall was “The Oryx”, who were from Alloa
Here’s another couple of Motors tracks. First one was an A-side; second was a B-side.
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link to youtube.com
Well done to Chic! 🙂
link to archive.fo
Well done Chic indeed.
Acorns and the mighty Oak come to mind.
Just put my last post on the MT, it should be there.
Thepnr
Thanks for that.
But I am a wee bit worried at the gung ho response from The National.
In an ideal world my solo effort of delivering 200 copies through letterboxes in Kirriemuir, about 10% of the households in Kirriemuir would have first been repeated on a larger scale i.e. maybe 1000 households and THEN if the same increase was seen, to roll it out in a program as fast as they could manage across the country.
On the other hand I can well understand that time for such an initiative is not on our side and can admire their bravery.
The figures are roughly this. In Kirrie with a population of 6,000 sales of The National, going by their current circulation, would have been something like 10 per day.
What they found is that in the postcode areas I sent them, where on average there would have been 1 or 2 sales per day, over the exercise increased by about 10 sales per day.
Extrapolating from 200 households to the 2 million in Scotland this would represent a circulation increase from 10,000 per day to 100,000 per day.
However, I was delivering the copies through letterboxes and this weekend does not stipulate that.
I am therefore worried that instead of putting in the legwork to put copies through letter boxes many groups may just hand them out in the streets or at stalls.
I have a very strong gut feeling that handing out in the street or at stalls will not have the same effect.
I have sent an email to the editor on this but so far no response.
We will be putting them through the doors but we will be making sure all our members (many of whom don’t buy the National) will be getting one
DMH Thumbs up.
@Chick
Yeah, I’m totally with you on that, the wee ribbon and the personal touch would have made a big difference. I can understand why the National can’t replicate that as it would take too many dedicated people such as yourself.
There’s no way this initiative can have the same impact but it will still have some kind of impact if they are delivered through the doors, I do hope they have some kind of message on them though like you did.
Anyway, you should be chuffed with that, I am and I don’t have the sore feet 🙂
@Chick
I think it’s a great initiative from The National, it’s distributed to 50 YES groups who agreed to do so, so they’re not just being sent some copies regardless, they asked for them after being emailed. And as it says “We would send them free copies this Saturday September 8 to deliver to their area, or to give out at a stall “. Different strokes for different errr, people.
If that’s successful I’d like to see them asking AyeMail to take some for their Indy Kits – all 200 or so of the YES groups. 50 each say, roughly 100 grams each, that adds 5Kg to the box Lindsay thinks would be about 25Kg. My courier service is £7.24 + VAT for 30Kg 24 hour, or £10.50 for highland and island 48 hour. So they’d be a bit out of date, but a special edition could take care of that.
But I’d also like to see them doing something with the SNP and Green branches around the palce. I printed off a bundle of A5 susbscription forms when it was launched and handed in to what was then my local YES shop, and there’s a few around my area stock the National – it may have helped.
Doesn’t cost much what, 10p a copy so £1,700 for this try out this Saturday, peanuts compared to what it could do for circulation. And circulation is also advertising revenue, you’ll know yourself, but also makes it more attractive for advertisers if it had say a circulation of 30,000. 100,000 copies extra to give away would be £10,000. Shrug.
@Chick
Oh yeah, and it would all be your fault 🙂
A well invested £200 if I remember rightly.
So my wee effort seems to have generated at a rate of about 20:1. If that were replicated throughout Scotland it would equate to about 100,000, in the same league as the Sun and Record.
However, logistically, it is a bit of a nightmare.
It would require more than a hundred times this Weekend’s effort.
It would require a list of postcodes done, preferably a map available for perusal by activists.
It would need to be done in a similar fashion, through the door, wee ribbon with zero hard sell on it. No accompanying leaflets.
And finally there is the headache of coordinating increased delivery to stockists in areas targeted. If someone goes along to buy a National the next day but the shop is sold out they are quite likely never to bother trying again.
And in small urban areas of large towns it is quite likely that local newsagents would not be used. A large town like Dundee would be best done in a oner, about 50,000 copies and the stock levels for the whole town anticipated.
Even in my wee area of 200 households, I decided to do 10 per day rather than ordering 200 and doing them in a oner. It would have been easier for me to do a oner. The reason being that then any increased demand would not be met by the retailer and the effect lost. Done at 10 per day over 4 weeks it allowed time for normal stock control methods to adjust.
I do not have an established dialogue with The National editor just a couple of emails and ones where I made some of those points have so far been unanswered, I know he is a very busy man especially at the moment so I quite understand.
If circulation rose as hoped, increased revenue could have a snowball effect, better quality product, better advertising maybe even TV adverts.
I hope they have given consideration to these things, they are the professionals after all, however I had a lot longer to think things through than they have.
yesindyref2
Actually it was only £162. My patch only has about 250 letterboxes and some were missed out (businesses, owners in the garden). I felt it best not to engage with recipients because that could have contaminated the data. I wanted only influence via a paper through the letter box. This was always designed to be a useful, if small, sampling exercise.
I’m a regular donor to most of the usual suspects and that amount is in line with some of of those donations. I felt it was worth a punt and one where I knew where it went and how.
My next planned project is to promote the flag design I’m working on as I think it could be useful but will need to seek opinion on that first.
Chick McGregor says:
” but will need to seek opinion on that first.”
Superb work Chick, here’s my opinion;
link to youtube.com
😉
Brian Doonthetoon,
Sorry, Brian, I’ve just noticed the other two tracks that you linked for me.
Try these two old pals;
link to youtube.com
link to youtube.com
😉
Burt Reynolds passed away today aged 82, reading that reminded me of a clip from a film that I played here before. I can’t really believe that this film is 46 years old now.
It was this one: link to youtube.com
@Chick
It’s given them the impetus, hope they can run with it.
Had a marvelous evening with Lesley Riddoch at the Dunoon Cinema last night where we showed both her “Nation” films. So impressive on the big screen.
Every person In Scotoand should be marched into a cinema to watch these and listen to our little neighbours puzzlement about the timid Scots.
Good turnout and lots of folk we have never seen before. And Lesley is so impressive. She should be in our Parliament (as should be Paul Kavanagh, Carolyn Leckie, Aamer Anwar, Gordon McIntyre-Kemp and lots of others who are intensely literate and articulate with really progressive interest).
Both films can be watched online – but are so much more impressive on the big screen
Hey, Cactus (from a couple of days ago),
Your Grand Tour sounds fun, of course you can stay, I’m usually here.
Lochinver is THE place to be on fri. 14th. for the Wolfstone concert. Should be fun.
@cearc
I sent you an email on Wed, it’s about AOUB in Edinburgh next month, you might have missed it.
Thepnr,
I just replied @ 12.23.
Hi cearc.
Your mention of Wolfstone caused me to go to YouTube for a listen to my favourite Wolfstone track –
link to youtube.com
I still have that concert (Grampian TV) on VHS somewhere in my hovelhold. Interesting thing is; that song was the last of the broadcast and I’m sure the credits were rolling over the end of the song. Not on the YouTube version though. Looks like somebody had access to the original ‘pre-broadcast’ recordings.
Chick,
I am sure that you are right about the ribbon and the effect of having to open it.
I used to sometimes use a bookshop in the Netherlands which still wrapped the books in a brown paper parcel tied up with string and a loop to hold it. The difference in the pleasure of getting home and unwrapping the new books as against oiking them out of a paperbag was immense.
@Chick –
Ye’re a hero.
Merr power tae ye brother.
😉
Ian B
Thanks for that Ian but you and I both know if it doesn’t produce the 500 – 800 extra sales hypothecated then by circa Tuesday I will become the proverbial zero. 🙂
@Chick –
Here’s hoping.
And it’ll be interesting to see the figures for the Sunday National, eh?
😉
@Chick: you won’t be a zero because your efforts gained an increase of 10. That is significant in itself and I’d be thrilled if I’d achieved that.
Today in Ullapool we had a glorious sunny day and delivered 200 Nationals [no leaflets]. We only had a sticker on them saying “complimentary copy” instead of your suggested info re on-line copies, I’m afraid [I was away whilst this arrangement was made or else I’d have made sure we followed your advice!].
We did check our only newsagent [apart from Tesco, that is] if they were happy with this project and they were. I hope they will increase their order to allow for a surge in demand!
Fingers crossed. And thank you again for inspiring so many people to give it a go.
Sarah
Fingers crossed indeed. The wife and I did push some of Kirrie’s allocation through doors with ‘the ribbon’ but, like most others seemingly (looking at twitter) they were distributed in the street or from stalls.
It may be that that is just as effective.
Could be. Time will tell.
@Chick McGregor
Being handed one in the street can never be as effective as having one through the door when you have to sit down and read it I would think. Especially wone with a “personal” message.
The Scotsman has been given them away for years and that doesn’t seem to have done much for their sales.
‘were largely distributed’
@Thepnr
Re your MT comment at 11.50am
Some days I feel I am wading through Brexshit treacle!
Reading about brexiters living in a fantasy, on the road to nowhere while we sit on a bridge over troubled waters.
Reality for brexiters
link to youtube.com
Hi Nana not the song I expected but very appropriate all the same 🙂
Take care and keep up the good work, Scotland will appreciate it!
Chick,
Don’t know if you spotted this on Stu’s twitter feed.
link to twitter.com
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The ignorance is outstanding!
Cearc,
Heh heh!
If it quarks like a duck, it’s Boris the boson.
I wouldn’t let him anywhere near CERN, unless he is to be used in a search for the stupidity particle.
He’s probably working on a trade deal right now to import a few lorry loads!
Swiss ones, of course. We don’t want any nasty EU ones made in France!
Only particles which have been stopped and searched at the border of course.
I think a particle is a tad namby-pamby.
You need to administer a full tickle to make it worthwhile.
Eh’ll git meh coat…
link to youtube.com
Apart from our own, of course.
Though I’m not a gender theorist and I’m very out of practice, sex is an expression of biology, where as gender is an expression of psychology, which is formed through the interaction of the individual’s biology with the social environment.
re. the misogyny inherent in the term “TERF”.
The ‘Facts’ of Life?
How the Notion of Evolved Brain Differences Between Women and Men Naturalises Biological Accounts of Sex/Gender
link to tandfonline.com
Evolution, Language and the Battle of the Sexes
A Feminist Linguist Encounters Evolutionary Psychology
link to tandfonline.com
#MasculinitySoFragile: culture, structure, and networked misogyny
link to tandfonline.com
I know I suggested keeping things simple, but some times there’s just no escaping philosophy.
link to tandfonline.com
link to tandfonline.com
link to dxsummit.org
I honestly didn’t see the day I would ever use this knowledge. Still haven’t used algebra though, not knowingly anyway. 🙂
link to digest.bps.org.uk
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
link to psycnet.apa.org
Fred, I’ve been building an “easy assembly” rubber wood futon for the past gazillion hours but I finally got to read the article this afternoon. Great stuff and I noticed a good few cantonment dots in my area for further research. The Stennis web site is most interesting.
I believe Murray Pittock is working on a book using these materials and I think it will be called “The Occupation”. That should set the cat among the pigeons.
Shockin stuff Tinto, Outlander isn’t the half of it!
@Fred: no, it’s not but they don’t want you to know that 😛
Looking furrit to that book appearing. Hard to believe MP was once Bojo’s debating partner at Oxbridge (forget which one).
Hope he didn’t mention there is a place in Scotland called Bonkle or we might be getting a visit.
Looking forward to that book Tinto, right noo ah’m reading “Lord Lovat of the’45” by Moray McLaren. Not just the scoundrel of popular belief!
An amazing man, Fred. What a film could be made of his life and very complicated times! Sadly, that is unlikely until after our independence but I think I have the physique for the role 😛
His brave last words clearly showed where his heart was.
Ha ha, have you the head for it but Tinto?
Ceann mor air duine glic, Fred 😛
Meanwhile, in other news: dirty Ruskies!
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You soffisticates will instantly recognise the piano melody at 1.16.
?
😎
Aye Tinto, Fraser was some man, and one of the main movers in the kidnapping of Rachel Erskine along with Macleod of Dunvegan and the lord of the isles, quite a good story that I had heard nothing of until I started taking boat trips out to St Kilda and heard about the Lady Grange who was married to James Erskine, brother of the Earl of Mar and friend of the Fox, if you get a chance The Prisoner of St Kilda is a decent read as well of that whole escapade, Rachel Erskines father was the Chiesley that killed the Lord justice in Edinburgh
Hi yesindyref2.
I’ve just submitted another (2nd) comment so this is just a test to see if my original one and second one are “lost”.
Hi yesindyref2.
Yes, they are “lost”.
If you want, email me at
brian@doonthetoonbumfluff.plus.com (removing the bumfluff to get the real email address) and I’ll pass on the info.
@Wullie B: I only discovered that story recently and I would love to go to St Kilda. Former climbing buddies of mine went there and had a very rough return journey to the mainland ahead of some bad weather. I’ll try to get a copy of that title on A____n.
Why “former buddies” I hear you ask? Closet Brexiteers they were and worse but it took me a few climbs to suss ’em. Matters came to a head on Ben Ledi.
Anent (ooh!) Braveheart: whatever trendy Bella C Types say, I will always be grateful to James Horner for providing the music for me to walk my younger daughter up the aisle a couple of years ago:
link to youtube.com
If you have tears, etc…
@yesindyref2: “a big head on a wise man” in the Language of Eden, mon vieux haricot. Must point out that there is another Gaelic version that says, “A small head on a wise man”.
Aye, its not the nicest of crossings at times, we did have a good spell between May and July, but since has been pretty crap, Aye you need to go out there, and if you can, camp for a day or two to see the entire island.
As for Bella C, I left that site in 2014/15 as couldnt be arsed with all the pseudo Socialism that went on, only komrades are allowed to post in my experience and stopped visiting after falling out with some of those felllas and some of the green socialists, dont get me wrong I am not against it, but I see the entire picture of Scotland needing the support of even right wing voters before we will get independence and that means toaraidhs which I was piloried and called a Britnat plant amongst others, so couldnt be arsed
As for Braveheart, its a bloody film, and a decent one at that, historically inaccurate in places but even Better Together Blairs been screaming about Tommy S showing a homophobic film from an anti semite producer, they all seem to be reading ff the same script,
Amen to all that, Wullie. I’m not a great sailor in the old chunder sense but will try to give it a go before I pop my clogs.
I have writer friend who contributed a few articles to Bella for a time but he gradually was deemed “not wanted on voyage” for some obscure reason. Ironically, his speciality was land reform and currency, not pretentious cultural matters and he was a fan of Common Weal but he obvs. offended someone.
Too may egos, not enough smeddum, imo.
@TC
I think I was up Ben Ledi years ago (a lot of years), unless there’s munroes around Loch Vennachar (can’t think of any offhand, nearest maybe Ben Venue). Was on the other side of the loch yesterday anyway in the execution of my business, a few showers, wind and some sun, and a whole lot of tour buses, don’t remember it being that busy before with them. Didn’t count but there must have been over 50 back and for, via Aberfoyle or poor Hamish’s gaff. I think there’s plans for Aberfoyle by the way, needs a bit of a facelift. And it was hit by the closure of the A81 with the bridge being struck twice.
A good film that I watched a few months back after finding it by accident and I’d recommend is Apocalypto. It was directed by Mel Gibson in 2016 and is a story about the Mayan people of South America before the Spanish arrive in the 16th century.
It’s all spoken in the language of that time so subtitles throughout. It’s on Amazon Prime.
Bens Venue & Ledi not Munro’s guys. Got out to St Kilda years ago on a yacht & stayed a couple of nights, motoring all night from Mingulay. Most remarkable place. Must have been quite a shock to Lady Grange after her violent abduction & not understanding a word from the natives. When they later moved her in a small boat a ship appeared & her minders prepared to throw her overboard with a rock tied to her neck, I think she had burned the mince!
Lovat had to flee to Dunvegan to his MacLeod relations when things got too hot & Atholl was on his tail. When you look at these family portraits & note that they all looked the same that’s because they were all the same extended family. The Fraser’s nowadays I fear have had any heroism bred out of them, judging by the likes of Murdo & Douglas. Completely ism-less whateffer!
That should be 2006 not 2016.
@yesindyref2: Ben Ledi of the two cairns isn’t a Munro, I think, but the view from the top is pretty special.
Fred: yup, as for the Frasers, how are the mighty fallen. The Scots Nobility must be the ultimate oxymoron. A loathsome bunch who sold us out for buttons and will do so again if we let them.
Hope lies with the proles, imo.
Ooh, I really like this but what’s happened to Bobby G?
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These young chaps covered a room and some groupies in hot chocolate in a hotel in Markinch. I know ‘cos it said so on a photograph on the wall in our room.
My life’s been pretty boring……
So it isn’t! I feel so – cheated. Might have to decrease my Munro count, no idea if I included Venue or even Ledi at the time. Mmm, I’ll just call them hills, that’ll be safe!
Don’t worry, yesindyref2, the only time I climbed Ben Venue the track up became a roaring burn and there was an ugly shack near the top with steel shutters. It’s not really worth the effort, the state it’s in.
After Indy, we should light beacons on all our country’s Munroes and have a giant party, with corned beef and gherkin sandwiches.
Night, all.
Can’t rememeber it TC, would have been early 80s and it’s barely possible I was paying more attention to the females in the group I used to walk with 🙂
Aye Fred , the Frasers hid in Dunvegan in 1702 or thereabouts after raping some lassie that was supposed to marry the young Strichen Fraser, who funnily enough are the line the Lovats are now,
Aye Lady Grange went from Heisker to Hiort, to Rodel then Assynt before ending up in Waternish at the MacNeills, but she apparently spent time in a cave at Idrigill Pointt beside the MaclEods Maidens for upto 18months as well, the guie on my boat didnt think the story was worthwhile telling, but I always found it an integral part of the known Kilda history
@ Wullie, it was the lassie’s mother that he allegedly raped while his piper drowned the screams/orgasmic outpourings, take your pick. Anyhow, she was physically abused by her family the Atholl’s when she wouldn’t testify against Simon which tells U something. The Murray’s were a bunch of Atholl’s.
Would make a good movie, the box-office would Lovat! 🙂
We haff kultcha dontchano.
Western Isles Council have responded to controversy about their anti Gaelic school stance by stating that to do so would be offensive to the Norse/Pictish culture of the islands.
Vilhelm Donaldsson of the Council said “We are Vikings up here. You can see it in the placenames …
link to dailygael.com
FAO DMH – goods arrived, thank you.
A wee plug here for the Saltire Scarves from Dave McEwan Hill at Yes Cowal. They are really nice and only £4.50 each.
________________
On another note and a wee rant.
I purchased the scarves for my friend & I going to Loch Lomond Live, Drymen 22 & 23 Sept.
With only 9 days notice the event has been cancelled.
Although disappointed for myself, I’m devastated for the local businesses. All the hotels and B&B’s have been booked for weeks.
Also seriously annoyed that the ‘Loch Lomond’ Live name will be tainted for any future events.
I’ve been told that the organiser, hasn’t a clue and can’t afford to pay the farmer for his ground (under legislation farm animals must be kept off fields for a period of 6 weeks prior to use). So the organisers knew well in advance of 9 days that they could not continue with the event.
This is a 2 day festival with 50 bands, trade stands, family fun day etc. so there is no way this can be blamed on one person.
If anyone knows who is behind this event, please let me know.
Rant over. Cheers.
I was watching the “independencelive” livestream from George Square today and was AMAZED to see Alastair Macdonald live on stage.
I only possess one of his singles and, prescient me, I linked to it around a month ago. He was one of those ‘weel kent puhsses’ who was on Scottish entertainment progs on TV back in the 70s and 80s. I never had anything against him.
Onnyhoo, it was good to see him coming out for independence (first time at an independence rally?) as he will be ‘weel kent’ to a certain generation.
So, here’s what I posted a month ago…
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Naw BDTT he his been oot fir a while.
Ah’ll admit Ah wis a wee bit surpriset when Ah heard massel.
The first time Ah heard o ‘im wis at Perth Folk Club aroonaboot 1970. Ah arrived a bitty late an the rule wis, if onybuddy wis singin’ ye waited ootside the door till they stoapit singin afore goin in. Weel, furby massel there wis anither chiel waitin tae get in an a.
I keekit through the door windae and clockit that there wisnae mony in that nicht sae Ah turned tae the chiel and said ‘Disnae look like this Alistair McDonald cin be much guid goin by the turnoot.’
When we went in, the chiel went up ontae the stage – it wis him.
By jings! Ah hid a riddy ye cuild hae spied fae Ooter Space.
I hope I’m wrong but I get the feeling something like Independence First might need to be restarted if Westminster refuses a referendum.
Mind you, if they leave the ECHR and like America last week the UNHCR with presumably the ICJ to follow it is difficult to see what might be achieved by it.
For those who do not know what Independence First was (it has been well buried by the media) then here is a flyer for our second march, the first march of about 1500 being depicted on it and some basic info about IF.
Amanda Brown’s ‘mish mash’ between Caledonia and Stanley Od’s ‘Letter’ is exceptional. I heard her do it before but she has really honed the performance now, well worth a listen to.
From 3:19:30 in, it it works.
livestream.com/IndependenceLive/HOFYesRally2018/videos/180318904
@Chick
Have you had any feedback from Callum about the increase in sales of the daily National following last Saturday’s effort? I’m itching to know!
Amanda Brown’s ‘mish mash’ between Caledonia and Stanley Od’s ‘Letter’ is exceptional. I heard her do it before but she has really honed the performance now, well worth a listen to.
From 3:19:30 in, it it works.
livestream.com/IndependenceLive/HOFYesRally2018/videos/180318904
I hope I’m wrong but I get the feeling something like Independence First might need to be restarted if Westminster refuses a referendum.
Mind you, if they leave the ECHR and like America last week the UNHCR with presumably the ICJ to follow it is difficult to see what might be achieved by it.
For those who do not know what Independence First was (it has been well buried by the media) then here is a flyer for our second march, the first march of about 1500 being depicted on it and some basic info about IF.
Sarah,
I don’t know. My sky email account has been hacked and I can’t get access. I changed the password and had temporary access and could see from countless mailer returns that messages had been sent to many folk, none of who’s email addresses I recognised. The email content was a bunch of numbers and letters, virus?
It stopped working again.
I phoned sky and the woman said if resetting doesn’t work there is nothing more she could do. I do not have a sky account and the email account is a legacy free account from years ago so no financial leverage.
She suggested contacting Microsoft. I had a look but couldn’t see anything on Microsoft that might be useful.
So, as I have a bt account and email I am just switching over to that but I can’t see if he has communicated on my old sky account.
Maybe I will email him with my bt email but my suspicion is that, due to the way it was done, it will not have produced the 500-800 circulation increase predicted.
Hope I’m wrong there.
Sarah,
I don’t know. My sky email account has been hacked and I can’t get access. I changed the password and had temporary access and could see from countless mailer returns that messages had been sent to many folk, none of who’s email addresses I recognised. The email content was a bunch of numbers and letters, virus?
It stopped working again.
I phoned sky and the woman said if resetting doesn’t work there is nothing more she could do. I do not have a sky account and the email account is a legacy free account from years ago so no financial leverage.
She suggested contacting Microsoft. I had a look but couldn’t see anything on Microsoft that might be useful.
So, as I have a bt account and email I am just switching over to that but I can’t see if he has communicated on my old sky account.
Maybe I will email him with my bt email but my suspicion is that, due to the way it was done, it will not have produced the 500-800 circulation increase predicted.
Hope I’m wrong there.
Chick,
Sorry to hear about the hacked email – if we weren’t paranoid before, perhaps we are now!
As for the National, I’m sure there will have been a spike – there must be a lot of the 64 groups which delivered them through letter boxes – it can’t have only been us in Ullapool & Lochbroom who did!
And we are prepared to do it again because the 200 we took only covered about 30% of Ullapool. We could spread it out as you advised, and do everything by your method.
Anyway, thank you again for your initiative.
That link doesn’t seem to work automatically. I stripped of the https:// in case it invoked the wrath of Stu like the httpw:// for YT vids.
Worth the effort involved patching it up to catch a great and moving performance.
Just been catching up and have to agree with Liz g, British nationalists do often appear to have a Michael Bentine’s “Potty Time” appreciation of world history. One of the causes is that the practice of studying history in Britain has played an important role in the creation and perpetuation of paternalistic and colonial social structures. Just ask Dan Snow, though I think he’s a British nationalist Tory, so you can’t really consider him impartial nor trustworthy.
link to history.ac.uk
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
link to tandfonline.com
@Chick
Email hacking is very common.
link to securingtomorrow.mcafee.com
Many of the spam emails I get want me to click on a link, and this is mostly how they get past your security. It could be a link, an apparent pdf or jpg which is an exe or a zip underneath,, even a doc file which first steals yoru template and then can get into macros. And it might be from someone you know who’s been hacked.
It can steal your address book, or in more serious cases zombie your computer, maybe even make you a command and control for a zombie network. Main purpose is money, one way or another, whether it’s your bank details, a scam, or blackmail “it found pictures of you mas****** and will send them to all your colleagues unless you pay them £300″” usually by bitcoin.
I have a load of email addresses, and my webserver / mailserver intercepts most of them, up to 100 a day. I personally reckon over 50% of the UK’s computers are currently hacked. People just can’t resist clicking on an enclosure – I never do.
Serious question which I don’t want to make MT – what’s the buzz on the National YES Registry? Is it up to scratch?
I see the anti-smoking brigade are fuming because of a loophole allowing smoking inside bothies. I guess they want us all blown off this mountain, with the wind. One of my all time favourites as it happens. Doesn’t that send a shiver down the backbone when Sandy comes in?
link to youtube.com
As there is an upcoming chinwag about culture, here’s some geeky stuff.
link to criticalrealism.com
Critical Perspectives Toward Cultural and Communication Research
link to researchgate.net
Cultural Value and Inequality: A Critical Literature Review
link to ahrc.ukri.org
Peace, Love and Independence.
“Let’s Work Together”
link to youtube.com
YES?
With an MA in Social Policy, Kezia Dugdale’s politics appear to be those of a self-serving opportunist. That’s British nationalism for you, Tory to it’s rotten core.
link to tandfonline.com
P.S. Arbeit macht frei, or so they say.
A decent article…
link to theguardian.com
Found this on
link to moflomojo.blogspot.com
I found it moving and have shared widely.
A declaration
I am a Pictish child
who starved to death
after our crops were burned
by some well-fed warlord
to intimidate another
in whose praise the bards
first elevated speech to poetry,
in the Age of Arthur, long ago.
They never sang a song for me.
I am a child of Dalriada
who perished in the pestilence
which the saints told us God sent
to punish us for the sins
described in their Vulgate
and by their desert fathers,
sins which explained our misery.
But I was happy until they came.
I am the infant daughter of MacWilliam,
brains bashed out against the mercat cross
one dreich day in Forfar:
a lineage extinguished, a dynasty defunct,
to throttle the bifurcations of history
as had been publicly proclaimed in advance.
But what do I know of ambition?
I am the nameless child
ripped from its mother’s womb
in the streets of Berwick
after the three days of its siege and sack
before the flower of our chivalry were captured
at Dunbar, and the country fell,
and the chronicler recorded how the manner of my death
seemed to exceed even the most medieval of excesses,
and prompted churchmen to ask a king
to call a halt to the atrocities.
I and my twin brother were miscarried
before we could be baptised,
dying along with our mother
in the smoke and straw and turmoil
as the blazing thatch collapsed
when they burned us out
to clear the land for sheep.
I took my last breath
before I could speak my first word
when I succumbed to tuberculosis
in the slums of the Calton.
And since you exported these extravagant atrocities
that you had practised on each other
in the narrow corridor of our Scottish centuries
to fulfil some broader civilising duty you say God ordained,
I am the American child skewered by a sabre
as I fled the cavalry, running between our lodges
while my people’s land was seized to satisfy your cupidity,
– or rescued from our savagery, as you would have it –
to submit to the grim teleology of commerce,
the plough, and the long-horned herds of alien ungulates
that replaced the buffalo you machine-gunned to extinction
from the trains you dispatched across the metal web
you spun across our prairies,
that grim teleology that dictates
the dark declining climate of our fates:
that everything is just a means to an end,
in which the end of everything awaits.
I am a child taken from its mother’s arms by the sea
and drowned as we seek these less hostile shores as refugees,
and the very language in which my mother named me,
whose lilt and grace animated my now forgotten name
has itself been forgotten.
I am silence.
I am that mute substratum of your loud history
that has no voice. I am that bloody backdrop
to your every great exploit. I am the sawdust
swept from the stage before the curtain is raised
and you step forth to perform your epic and inspiring tale.
I am every untold story lingering in the interstices of your syllables.
I am the ghost that convects and coils through the shafts of light that project your favourite blockbuster onto the silver screen.
I am every blank page, every pause, every unseen presence
loitering at the back of the darkened auditorium.
But I will be heard now, and it is not for honour
– for what honour is there in being a victim of history,
in being the silt and ashes which settle in unseen anoxic depths,
to form the compacted layers upon which the future struts –
nor for glory – for what glory is there
in being disposed of and stamped down and ignored,
suffocating under wasted generations in the landfill of history –
nor for riches – for there no recompense for annihilation,
no coin that compensates for my enforced absence –
that I speak up, but for freedom
– freedom to be born, freedom to grow,
freedom to learn and love and know
the rain and sun and wind and snow,
the seasons turn and years unfold –
for freedom, yes, and that alone,
which no good man gives up but with his life.
The same freedom which I never gave up,
but which was taken from me, with my life,
when I became a victim of your history,
and I call on you now for restitution,
for resurrection, for restoration, of my dignity
in the dignity you seek to establish for yourselves.
Give your riches to the beggar. Place that coin
in the hand held out where mine has been held back,
and find your glory in the insignificance you embrace,
your honour in the ego you erase. This is my declaration:
make this Scotland, and the world it is in,
a monument to the dignity of all
in commemoration of those who were granted none.
Make this Scotland, and the world it is in,
memorable for the best of reasons,
in memory of those forgotten for the worst.
Cultivate the anonymous ashes of the past
to bring forth a blossom so fragrant with freedom
that its celebration effaces my anonymity,
and let there be no more victims of history
in the future you begin to write today
on the first page of this,
my declaration.
Brexit and the Smelly Rat
Some interesting developments re Brexit today. The EU is making efforts to come up with a plan to solve the Irish backstop.
If they succeed, at the very least a transition period would be doable.
If the Brexit really is all about the Tax Havens – this would be the last thing Westminster will want, since the tax avoidance legislation comes into act 1/1/19 and into enforcement at several stages within the next 2 – 3 years, and there would be no opt out of this legislation for the UK.
Up till now I’ve kind of thought of the DUP as an intransigent, weight around Terrible May’s neck. If the tax haven theory is correct. Right just now they are her best ally – and each and every one of them is likely to be very handsomely rewarded.
Meanwhile the pleasant, reasonable voice of ‘we love you, don’t leave us, lead us’ middle England – i.e. Kirsty Hughes is really pushing for the SNP to back The Peoples Vote.
What a lot of crap it is. Firstly they’ve left if too late, secondly a Peoples Vote on what – EFTA? Canada++, Norway model, in? out? shake it all about. What a great big time wasting operation it is, just to keep the punters occupied. But more importantly – try and split the SNP / Indy vote.
If they were serious about The Peoples vote they would campaigning like mad in the swing areas of England, not preaching to the ‘remain’ converted in Scotland.
Vote remain again Scotland, so we can ignore you all over again and do what we want to you, against your will.
They really do think we’re zipped up the back.
Sorted that link for you Lucia 🙂
link to youtube.com
Hi, Chic(k).
Thanks for posting that, a sad and salutary reminder that the Smaa Folk, for all their efforts and sacrifice, are usually ignored by the “historians”.
I noticed your first commented was moderated. Hope you haven’t been a naughty boy.
Miss Daines: if you come across Paula Rose on your travels, tell her I’ve got two of her library books I found in her smokehouse. Don’t want to publicise the titles, obvs :razz:.
‘I noticed your first commented was moderated. Hope you haven’t been a naughty boy.’
If I have it is inadvertent. Maybe its because I’ve been using my btinternet email address?
I just tried posting this on the Wee Dug’s site but just in case it doesn’t show up. With regard to preserving a society in aspic, like what British nationalism has to do in order to survive.
Axiopsychological Refutation of Totalitarian Ideologisms in the Era of Globalization
link to journals.umcs.pl
Have just voted in the Plaid Cymru Leadership Election by using my SNP pen (picked up at a Perth Conference, some time ago).
How’s that about commitment to the indy of our two nations? 😉
PS ALL three candidates are pledged to the ‘I’ word and they are all strong, decent people. May the best win and lead us in the manner of the SNP to our mutual goals!
Good luck Welsh Sion.
Cultist behaviour is far more common than one might imagine.
link to hgi.org.uk
Escape the echo chamber
First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult
link to aeon.co
Cargo cult science and the death of politics: A critical review of social and environmental accounting research
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Tinto,
I see what you mean, the comment on the blog site.
No, that was me, I deleted it and replaced it.
The original YT I posted had clips of the movie Soldier Blue which were to graphic I felt in hindsight.
Top band.
The Flying Lizards – Move On Up
link to youtube.com
“If we have a fully thought out No Deal, the EU will see that they need a deal that is better than no deal and they will come to the table….” – John Redwood
The man is talking gibberish. I really don’t know how Brexit got this far, as Whitehall must have prepared numerous impact assessments prior to the activation of A50. All of these assessments will have indicated Brexit will be an economic disaster for Britain, so who are the hidden vulture capitalists driving this madness?
link to researchgate.net
Hi, Chick.
Yes, that was a shocking movie. I think I was in S4 at the time but some of my mates got in to see it and were pretty badly affected, even the Tough Guys. Buffy S-M’s song still brings back bad feelings ‘cos I saw some excerpts from the film later on somewhere. Late Night Line-up? Showing my age now.
The Native American genocide is just another to add to the long list of Man’s inhumanity to Man and Woman. The NA peoples were generally spiritual folk who lived close to nature and held land in common and in sync with nature.
As one of their wise said, “You can’t eat money.”
I always think of that when I think of fiat currency and the massive economic spivvery which Max Keiser exposed.
I’m sorry, again, for being a space hog geek, but this is kind of the heart of the matter.
link to lancaster.ac.uk
Fear Among the Extremes: How Political Ideology Predicts Negative Emotions and Outgroup Derogation
link to static1.squarespace.com
Fascism and Political Theory
Critical perspectives on fascist ideology
link to cdchester.co.uk
Darlings – anyone got a sofa on the 5th of October cos I’ve got to be up early to help Ronnie and others – also on the 6th cos I’ll be busy all day.
Sorry folks but here’s another geek-out (responding to Rev’s twitter).
@Skylar Baker-Jordan
OJ does seem a bit of a posser who probably doesn’t appreciate he’s jumped on the misogyny bandwagon in a very public manner. 😉
link to anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu
Positioning language and identity
link to routledgehandbooks.com
link to parrhesiajournal.org
P.S. I might be reaching peak flow. We’ll see. 🙂
P.S. I have read the above and am aware it’s incredibly dense, sorry not my fault, and that Dr Boucher ultimately dismisses Butler’s theory of Performativity as a repackaging of liberal individualism, which suggests a constrained potential for transforming hegemonic cultural practices within liberal society.
That’s what you get for staying up past bedtime.
which suggests a constrained potential for transforming hegemonic cultural practices within liberal society.which suggests the theory may not have the transformative potential that its proponents might suggest.
If someone can turn the graphs into venn diagrams, I might be able to help. Nah, only kidding. 😉
Definately too quick of the mark, I’d forgotten the significance of partiality, tbh.
link to oxfordscholarship.com
Universalism vs Particularism
Resolving Dilemmas from Conflicting Values in Cultural Diversity
link to laits.utexas.edu
The Limits of National Partiality
link to jeffersonmcmahan.com
Hoping Smallaxe is keeping well and hoping today’s shennanigans has put a smile on his face.
Be well fella.
Aye, cheers to ye Smallaxe, hope to catch up with yee’s in Edinburgh.
Howde Macart, what a day we’re all having eh, cheers 🙂
Test 🙂
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Drat! LOL
Test looking good Thepnr 🙂 ahm just about tae stagger out into the south-side of Glasgow…
Gaun clubbin’ hehe!
Cactus have a good one!!
Black 17, 20, 26, 29, 35 straight down the middle LOL
No too shabby Cactus. No too shabby at all.
Have a good one. It is Friday. 🙂
My Ascii text message was meant to be
UKOK
HAHA
Don’t know why only the last two lines were in the right place 🙁
If aye was here right now, I’d be there, aye ahm aye.
Rockin’ ra Southside auld Corona bar like!
Freedom callin’ ye.
Love Scotland.
On the move… saunterin’ thru the Queens Park, music bound. Aye aye may return to the Casino Thepnr… ah Love yer nummers.
Middle column mwah.
@Cactus
Mind an no lose the taxi money it’s no summer now 🙂
@dhothersall
How can you support a political ‘union’ that treats one partner as an insignificant subordinate? Are you a Tory?
link to jeffersonmcmahan.com
P.S. Britain is a ‘union’ of nations and Scotland voted to stay.
Sorry, I missed this bit.
You’ll need to read the rest yourself to find out where moral authority lies. I’ll not spoil it for you.
@dhothersall
I thought you could do with some help on your path to a more social world view.
link to journals.sagepub.com
Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations. Postcolonial Perspectives
link to researchgate.net
Identity in International Relations
link to isa-theory.org
@dhothersall
I’m spoiling you really.
link to internationalstudies.oxfordre.com
@dhothersall
Now just think of the effort I’ve gone to, just for you. Night, night. 😉
link to nationalismstudies.wordpress.com
Politics, eh?
link to andrea-sangiovanni.org.uk
Normative Political Theory
link to researchgate.net
POSITIVE CONSTRAINTS ON NORMATIVE POLITICAL THEORY
link to hummedia.manchester.ac.uk
RIP Chas Hodges.
Chas and Dave’s Christmas Knees Up 1982 (with Eric Clapton, Albert Lee, Lennie Peters):-
link to youtube.com
Howde do y’all, I feel that we are at the cusp of returning our independence to and for Scotland and those who choose to be here with us in our beautiful country. It’s SO exciting! Ye may have picked up on that from me twilight postings hehe.
Have an excellent day sexy sovereign citizens! 🙂
That Tom Gallagher is one to talk about principles.
link to tandfonline.com
Pluralism and consensus in deliberative democracy
link to tandfonline.com
Against naïve pluralism in media politics: on the implications of the radical-pluralist approach to the public sphere
link to blogs.helsinki.fi
A wee victory against the BBC. Please raise your glasses.
This morning, BBC Wales featured the ONS story that there had been an increase in the number of my mother tongue (and 1st professional) language of Cymraeg/Welsh speakers in Cymru/Wales from 726,600 in 2008 to 874,700 people now, 10 years later.
They headed the piece with a 1950’s style signpost, which to all intents and purposes was monolingual English (as they were back then).
An irate phonecall from me to BBC HQ and a promise to refer the matter to the Head Honcho of BBC Wales online followed (apparently the “Complaints Department” is not open on weekends).
Subsequently, some time this afternoon, (I’ve been out), the picture has been removed for a stock one featuring solely the word “Cymraeg”. Thus, the photo used is 100% Welsh in language.
Pints of Brains SA all round!
PS I was wise enough to make screenshots of both photos. It goes to show (as if we didn’t already know it) that Aunty Beeb can amend graphics, text, photos at any time – often, if we are not careful, without our knowledge.
You could say that the Britpop period reinvigorated British culture, though you could also say it simply re-cast the imperial culture that has shaped British society. I think the latter view helps explain Britain’s Brexit stance. Bloody nationalists.
link to sas-space.sas.ac.uk
@Kirstine Hair MP
It’s your party that is endangering the livelihood of workers in the agri-food industries, and will most probably dilute quality standards enjoyed by consumers, in general, as your party appears to be ideologically hostile to scientific advice. You’re a disgrace.
Michael Gove’s agricultural utopia ignores the realities of UK farming
Who’s going to supply the Basics range?
The issue is that British agriculture’s post-Brexit future lies as much in the hands of Liam Fox as with Gove. A leaked Brexit impact assessment seen by Buzzfeed suggested that, unlike the rest of the economy, agriculture would not suffer if Britain defaulted to WTO terms. But that document, though the full details are yet to come out, most likely doesn’t take into account the political decisions that could be taken in such a scenario.
To get the wider benefits of a hard Brexit, many Brexiteers are advocating a lowering of tariffs and a cutting of red tape. In this scenario, where the government agreed trade deals that led to lower quality food produced to lower environmental and welfare standards than the status quo, the “race to the bottom” would come whether British farmers were part of it or not.
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
Brexit: how might UK agriculture survive or thrive? Some early indications.
The UK agri-food will be one of the sectors most seriously affected by Brexit, and a number of potential policy scenarios and their possible consequences need to be considered.
link to ncl.ac.uk
Agriculture after Brexit
link to watermark.silverchair.com
(sorry for the mess but tinyurl didn’t seem to work)
@Historywoman
Your opposition to the principle of universal human rights betrays your inner fascist. Sit down, shut up and learn.
link to opil.ouplaw.com
@Histoywoman
I thought you were an academic. Do you really believe a tradition of cultural chauvinism trumps international jurisprudence? Well, I’ve got some bad news for you.
https://www.diakonia.se/en/IHL/The-Law/International-Law1/IL–Self-Determination/
link to pesd.princeton.edu
link to asil.org
@Richard Leonard
You’re a fud, who seeks to re-invigorate class-war politics so as to protect, rather than sell, British nationalism. High ambitions for a nation. Not.
link to juntendo.ac.jp
Texts and Practices
Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis
link to felsemiotica.org
Class Conflict and Social Change in Historical Perspective
link to jstor.org
Phew. Good to hear friendly voices =)
Found myself in the presence of some Loyal Unionists last night. Rarely do I witness such crass ignorance.
Gently, and as respectfully as possible, put them straight.
Thank you all Wingers for the information and sentiments lent to me that give me the confidence to speak my truth to those who would rubbish my folk.
Peace and love folks =)
Prejudice and bigotry accumulate within culture, if they are not opposed. Re. Andy Kerr. I can’t see how he can keep his job, frankly.
link to oro.open.ac.uk
WOMEN AND SECTARIANISM IN SCOTLAND: BEYOND FOOTBALL
https://www.engender.org.uk/content/publications/Women-and-sectarianism-in-Scotland—March-2014.pdf
Mainstreaming Anti-Sectarianism in Equalities Toolkit
link to wsrec.co.uk
It is difficult to get an impression of what society must have been like when the Acts of Union were signed, but this might help in understanding how anti-Catholicism has evolved in Britain, and how cultural practices are sustained, in general.
link to vam.ac.uk
The way I understand things, patriotism and nationalism expresses an emotional bond and loyalty to one’s nation. Unlike patriotism, nationalism is often supremacist and authoritarian in nature. IMHO, Scottish ‘nationalism’ is the former, where as British nationalism, increasingly the latter.
link to middlewaysociety.org
A cognitive account of belief: a tentative road map
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nationalism, Patriotism and Diversity
Conceptualising the national dimension in Neil MacCormick’s post-sovereign constellation
link to sv.uio.no
Kevin Hague is entitled to his opinion. Unfortunately for him, he has presented himself as an expert, where as, he is in fact clueless. He’s a nationalist, so his thought horizons are bound by the limits of the ‘One Nation’ ideology. Silly man.
@Kevin Hague
I’m just getting warmed up.
link to citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
The Borders of Nationalism and Patriotism: Cosmopolitanism according to Kok-Chor Tan
link to cdn.uclouvain.be
The Ethics of Globalism, Nationalism, and Patriotism
link to humansandnature.org
Or for those not impressed by KH’s liberal nationalism or who are intimidated by critical theory’s Marxist roots, here’s an alternative approach to patriotism and loyalty to nation.
link to watermark.silverchair.com
(sorry, again, for the mess)
@Kevin Hague
Some suggested reading I think you could benefit from. Might knock the edge of that chauvinism problem of yours. 😉
link to hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr
Constitutional Patriotism, Nationalism, and Historicity
link to pol.gu.se
Critical Patriotism: Incorporating Nationality into MFT Education and Training
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
This will do you for now, I don’t want to be accused of attempting to silence you through the weight of relevant literature.
link to zora.uzh.ch
In the Name of the Nation: Reflections on Nationalism and Patriotism
link to sscnet.ucla.edu
“PATRIOTISM” – A CONTRADICTION, A POSSIBILITY OR AN EMPIRICAL REALITY?
link to ecpr.eu
link to these-islands.co.uk
Political choices are made from whatever available menue of political options are available. Political concerns are shaped largely through the media. Hence the BBC’s extremely narrow political outlook and dogmatic, chauvinistically nationalistic, neoliberal programming, as apparently there is no alternative.
P.S. Sorry, I forgot to mention that national security, economic security, and collective security are not best served by Brexit nor neoliberalism, in general.
I continue to make crosses for myself. Sorry for being a space hog.
link to revad.uvvg.ro
The Neoliberal Way of War: A Critical Analysis of Contemporary British Security in Policy and Practice
link to centaur.reading.ac.uk
From Defense to Resilience: Environmental Security beyond Neo-liberalism
link to academic.oup.com
Space Hog =)
I like it!
Thing is Cameron B, that even though I don’t manage to read everything you offer to us, the bits I do read DO add to my understanding and that is brilliant!
Thank you 🙂
Ghillie
You’re very welcome and I’m not expecting folk to consume everything, though that would be great. I reckon Indy would be a doddle if that were to happen. 😉
I’m certainly not re-reading everything.
Ian Dury – clevor trevor
link to youtube.com
Wow, what a bonnie full moon ra nicht ra now.
Gorgeous.
Aooow.
Cactus
And cold (its 4 degrees here at the moment and the sky is not clear) . You heard it here first. We are in for an early winter. Apart from the below seasonal temperatures and the huge profusion of berries and fruit I’ve had seven little toads and a little newt in through my front door at least a month earlier than normal. They are going into hibernation already and make their way to crevices in walls etc but find themselves confused in my hall when they come in under the door.
No idea how the little buggers get up the front steps however.
Mornin’ Dave, aye, aye can feel a change a comin’ too, nature leads the way, will be listenin’ in on Thursday, excellent show. 🙂
Our moon last night was a ‘Harvest Moon’:
link to timeanddate.com
link to timeanddate.com
That’s a belter.
Shine on it:
link to youtube.com
DMH isn’t the profusion of brambles due to conditions earlier in the year. My resident expert says ” many haws many snaws”. We haven’t seen a profusion of haws.
Cactus
I’m almost ready to have a bet on a White Christmas. The robins that were eating out of my hands last winter are back again and I see a collection of green finches and siskins eating the huge profusion of rose hips like I have never seen before on the wild rose bushes at our car park.
Unrelated to the weather is the growth of our little Holy Loch SNP branch which is now approaching 200 members (from a normal about 50 a couple of years ago).
We intend in conjuction with Dunoon and Strachur SNP branches to take to the air on Argyll Independent radio as a majority of the over 500 members we share in this Cowal area are online. Talking about this on my Roundabout Show on Friday.
Online radio equals huge potential
Anyone still trying to get your head around what it means to be British in the early 21st century?
link to tandfonline.com
British National Identity and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism
link to tandfonline.com
Islamophobia, Racism and Critical Race Theory
link to palermo.edu
Before the gales there were rowans with berries & flowers at the same time. Purple shite appearing under trees in the park, can only guess the perpetrators are woodpigeons feeding on elderberries?
Re. Alastair Cameron c/o Scotland in Union, and latent violence in his tweet. Words matter, as they point to the mindset and pathology of the speaker, as well as transmitting social meaning to the listeners.
link to journals.openedition.org
One does not simply borrow a meme.
Memetics from the perspective of cognitive contact linguistics
link to uni-trier.de
The Psychological Meaning of Words: LIWC and Computerized Text Analysis Methods
link to journals.sagepub.com
His apparent hostility towards Others indicates he’s a staunch British nationalists, so essentially an authoritarian cultural chauvinist. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll accept he’s simply a wank.
link to journals.sagepub.com
Refining Our Understanding of Language Attitudes
link to journals.sagepub.com
Social Identifications
A Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations and Group Processes
link to taylorfrancis.com
I didn’t catch the interview but I just spotted tRuthless being intervened about mental health, on ch4. The Tories (who are different to Conservatives), are free-trade fundamentalists who live by the bible of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism both demands and produces health inequalities.
link to etheses.bham.ac.uk
Examining Neoliberalism and Mental Health Strategy – A Discursive Analysis
of a UK Department of Health Document
link to e-space.mmu.ac.uk
Health Inequalities: Critical Perspectives
Neoliberalism and health inequalities
link to oxfordscholarship.com
I’ve had enough of the trans activism pish myself, things are getting way out of hand. As I’ve said before, I must be old fashioned as I think I live in a world where sex is defined through biology, not unbounded subjectivity. The identity of biological women is being colonised by men, in an act of misogenistic identitarianism. If you are aiming to address mental health or discrimination issues, focus on those fields of law. Don’t look to undermine the written word, bio-medical science, jurisprudence, or the place of biological women in society.
@boodleoops
I’ve got a penis, which helps me know that I am of male sex. I don’t know you well enough so I’ll keep my gender private for now. 😉
link to mercatornet.com
link to read.dukeupress.edu
link to feministcurrent.com
This is just soo-perb:
Feature length documentary/concert featuring Gil-Scott Heron, must be early 80s. Brilliant.
link to youtube.com
Is the meaning of womanhood being erased from public consciousness, as part of the neoliberal project which aims to shed the state’s responsibility for the provision of public services, such as healthcare? From the neoliberal perspective, we are to be self-determining in our own welfare, I shit you not. Obviously, such a strategy is doomed to heighten cultural inequality and social polarisation.
link to jstor.org
Governmentality and Gender: Current Transformations of Gender Regimes revisited from a Foucauldian perspective
link to researchgate.net
Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality
link to rauli.cbs.dk
Sorry for being a space-hog geek but I think this is important, in its self. I think it might also shed light on the intrinsically authoritarian nature of contemporary British, neoliberal, society.
link to journals.sagepub.com
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
link to vc.bridgew.edu
This might help explain that gendered map of projected voting intentions.
link to oxfordhandbooks.com
Gender and Political Behavior
link to politics.oxfordre.com
Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks in International Political Economy
link to uni-kassel.de
Oops, I have been busy.
link to youtube.com
@Fred
Purple shite?
That’s a new one for me and have never come across that before LOL. Here’s some Purple Rain, though it’s not what you might have thought. Ten times better than the original IMO 🙂
link to youtube.com
Nice one Ian, though “waiting for the axe to fall” does lead to unsettling thoughts. Like the anti-democratic violence of Scotland being dragged out of the EU. Such is British democracy and the British state’s respect of human rights.
link to tampub.uta.fi
The Quality of Democracy: The Ambiguous Virtues of
Accountability
link to eui.eu
Fascism? Populism? Democracy? Critical Theory in a Global Context
link to nica-institute.com
Please note there is no mention of Scotland’s circumstances in the last link. Or plight is hidden from view and the threat to our right bearing humanity is subsequently denied significance.
Thepnr
Sorry Alex, please forgive me but I’m totally brickin’ it about Brexit and I’m determined to prove our cause is just.
Purple shite? This is the first year I’ve noticed it but it’s all over the place.
@ Thepnr, Purple Rain sooperb! we are indeed fortunate that swans don’t eat elderberries! “When the deep purple falls……..fancy getting blootered wi that from a great height!
Unless the Russians produce a video of the GRU agent and his tourist look-a-like standing side by side it looks pretty damning for the Kremlin.
Is it time for Alex Salmond and George Galloway to pull out of RT?
Actually, now seen Craig Murray’s article – it’s no him.
Re. institutional corruption. It’s bad, mk. At least from the perspective of normative political theory.
link to projects.iq.harvard.edu
WHAT IS WRONG WITH INSTITUTIONAL CORRUPTION
A philosophical investigation into the moral foundation of modern institutions
link to openaccess.leidenuniv.nl
INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN, NORMATIVE POLITICAL THEORY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
link to bibliotecadigital.fgv.br
re. that 11 year old girl. The regimentation of action fits with the neoliberal aim of producing the neoliberal subject, a right-thinking, correctly consuming, internally self-regulating, entrepreneurial, individualist. Of course, it might have been due to something completely different.
link to tandfonline.com
Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Ethics
link to rauli.cbs.dk
Neoliberal subjectivity – difference, free choice and individualised responsibility in the life plans of young adults in Switzerland
link to geogr-helv.net
Re. austerity and 21st century food-poverty in Britain. Has David Torrance ever mentioned the harmful psychological effects of austerity, given he has a degree in psychology and shit? Doubt it.
link to psychagainstausterity.files.wordpress.com
Austerity, welfare reform and the rising use of food banks by children in England and Wales
link to rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Understanding the health and wellbeing challenges of the food banking system: A qualitative study of food bank users, providers and referrers in London
link to researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
I see the BBC are pimping neocolonial machismo, again. Historically, International Relations Theory and security studies in general, have been dominated by the Realist school of philosophy, which should not be confused with critical realism. As always, don’t believe the Tory hype, there’s usually an alternative.
link to e-ir.info
Critical Theory: International Relations’ Engagement With the Frankfurt School and Marxism
link to internationalstudies.oxfordre.com
Feminist Security Studies
link to oxfordbibliographies.com
Might change my name to Loretta. 🙂
White Town – I Could Never Be Your Woman
link to youtube.com
re. the Trump administration and climate change.
link to philpapers.org
The Global Transformation: The Nineteenth Century and the Making of Modern International Relations
link to eprints.lse.ac.uk
link to triple-c.at
And now for something completely different
link to youtube.com
And away we go again
link to youtube.com
one more, bung ho!
link to youtube.com
Rod Stewart and the song the BBC won’t play
link to youtube.com
Afternoon Bdtt, aye aye, ah was away frae screen at a party t’other evening and then onto an aftershow party in Balfron after that, for some afters, dramos muchos 🙂
Excellent result for Dateline 2018, congratulations to all.
Couple of crackin’ Sunday Wings articles, yum.
A defining moment and turning point…
Get stuck in there.
6 sleeps to go.
I’m pretty new to this trans debate but I’m already beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable. I didn’t realise there are so many women supporting action that can be expected to undermine there already weak position in society. I support the re-writing of social boundaries to undermine hegemonic social practice, but it is possible to take a thing too far.
link to journals.sagepub.com
Neo-liberalism, Masculinity and Femininity
link to www2.le.ac.uk
The Neoliberal Feminist Subject
link to lareviewofbooks.org
Political intent and action does not undo biology, though space should be made for all. Gender equality is important but not worth the practical inhalation of experiential womanhood’s meaning. Is the queering of sex and gender aiding the neoliberal governmentality project?
link to sfonline.barnard.edu
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
link to tandfonline.com
The feminist frontier: on trans and feminism
link to tandfonline.com
How should nations conduct themselves? Is there any guarantee that austerity will ever end in Brexitania? How will England’s culture affect Scotland’s future?
link to scholar.harvard.edu
Evolutionary Political Psychology
link to pure.au.dk
Toward a Psychology of Social Change: A Typology of Social Change
link to frontiersin.org
Just finished Craig Murray’s excellent “Sikunder Burnes!” on the disaster of the first Afghan War 1841, no lessons were learned & Labour embarked on it’s own 4th Afghan War with John Reid claiming the troops would be back without firing a shot. Boom-time for flag manufacturers keeping up with the demand to cover coffins.
Burns the poet’s cousin Alexander Burnes, political officer in Kabul was made a scapegoat for his superiors in the East India Company & was hacked to death at his house in Kabul after a four hour siege while British regiments were in camp 10 minutes away. Then came a government cover-up by Palmerston & Co. Not many of the invading army made it back to India. Riveting stuff pub’ by Birlinn.
link to 131.111.165.101
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Part 5: Critical Realism
link to youtube.com
Folks can anyone confirm AUOB for Saturday is starting at Johnston Terrace?
re. Brexit and immigration.
link to thepienews.com
Migration theories: a critical overview in Triandafyllidou, Anna (ed) Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies.
link to dspace.lboro.ac.uk
Addressing Whiteness with/in (Critical) Migration Studies
https://movements-journal.org/issues/03.rassismus/08.aced,schwab–addressing.whiteness.with.in.critical.migration.studies.html
@ Jason, Johnston Terrace 1 o clock kick-off, Holyrood chances of a rally are still unclear?
Don’t need a rally, Fred.The march is the thing and a picnic at the park.
Fred
Thanks Fred I’ll be there looking forward to seeing some wingers in Edinburgh.
Is this cearc?
link to thenational.scot
@Fred
I won’t be at the march but hubby will and hopes to meet up with Wingers.
If anyone is wondering how Smallaxe is, I’m sorry to report he is not too well at the moment. He was very much looking forward to going and meeting up with indy pals but sadly his health is not up to it.
This one’s for you Smallaxe xx
link to youtube.com
Looking forward to Sat’ Haymarket looks the best bet for Johnstone Terrace & the weather looks OK.
Hope and best wishes Smallaxe and Mrs. Smallaxe.
@ Nana, I was gonnae get U a large Gin tae! sorry to hear about Smallaxe, Off-Topic’s no the same without his repartee!
All my best Smallaxe, haste ye back my friend.X
Stay strong Mrs Smallaxe we are thinking of ye.X
Will you keep us informed please Nana?
Best wishes to Smallaxe and peace always. 🙂
Something I mentioned in passing on one of the main threads, if we do get a big turnout on Saturday it is going to be a quite hard to get 40,000+ people in Johnstone Terrace
@Fred
Never fear Fred, we’ll meet up some time!
@Lizg
I will Liz. I’m pretty sure he’ll be back on off topic soon as he’s fit.
Nana, sorry to hear that Smallaxe is not too well at the moment.I miss his cheery banter and his music on OT. Much love to him and Mrs Smallaxe.
Sorry can’t be at the march on Saturday, but I hope for a wonderful turn out, and a happy and most of all peaceful day.
re. anxiety in the age of global neoliberalism.
link to journals.sagepub.com
link to researchgate.net
link to ir.canterbury.ac.nz
Social space is full of paradoxes, many of them hidden from plain sight..
link to scholarship.law.duke.edu
No.
Nice hat though.
re. (t)Ruthless Davidson’s conception of internationalism.
link to pages.gseis.ucla.edu
Beyond Nineteen Eighty-Four: Doublespeak in a Post-Orwellian Age.
link to files.eric.ed.gov
Equivocation and doublespeak in far right-wing discourse: an analysis of Nick Griin’s performance on BBC’s Question Time
link to eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
re. anxiety.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – 2Kindsa Lov
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe is the original banter boy and I was hoping to see him again on Saturday to discuss Dark Energy but there will be better days for us all quite soon, sodger boy:
link to youtube.com
Fancy a muffin?
link to youtube.com
O what is that sound?
From what I’ve witnessed of the trans debate, it certainly has gone wrong. A totalitarian belief in identitarianism now appears to trump bio-medical science. Woke ‘socialists’ who jump on the neoliberal and misogynistic trans-activist bandwagon, display a hollowed-out appreciation of social solidarity. Probably why some of them have columns in the national press.
link to nature.com
The neuroscience of transgender identity: Transgender brains match their gender identity
link to blog.donders.ru.nl
Which box to check: Assessment norms for gender and the implications for transgender and nonbinary populations
Standard methods in psychology need to be adapted to fully address transgender and nonbinary aspects of gender.
link to apadivisions.org
link to youtube.com
Well, can you?
@Owen Jones
Clue yourself up dude.
link to cyber.harvard.edu
TRANSGENDER INTRASECTIONALITY: RETHINKING ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW AND LITIGATION
link to scholarship.law.upenn.edu
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
link to read.dukeupress.edu
“How on earth have HES come to this place? They have rushed at an enemy which was never there, while simultaneously retreating behind denial and being wounded by inference, while people who had never even considered that HES were part of the political landscape look on in frank amazement. Worse, they have provided a new target for the vocal few ready for a fight, and as someone passionate about our heritage I wish with all my heart that they had not done so.”
Folk might not have previously considered HES political, as “institutional bias” has only recently attained academic recognition.
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International Edition
2. Social Cognition
link to opentextbc.ca
Understanding Implicit Bias
link to kirwaninstitute.osu.edu
It would be kind of handy if Wingers could make sure the banner at the front of the march was appropriate, maybe with use of mobile phones, no “out Tory scum, out”. Otherwise the options would be to politely replace it, or leave a large gap behind the 20 or so people who actually want that as the message, and have another appropriate banner for the real march.
I’m honestly not making any claims as to the actions of HES staff, simply trying to broaden the understanding of the issue at hand.
link to orca.cf.ac.uk
Anyway, here we go, popped out likes peas in a pod as they say
link to youtube.com
Ach and here’s another
link to youtube.com
and one more for luck
link to youtube.com
Hamilton Bohannon – Let’s Start The Dance (Danny Krivit Edit)
link to youtube.com
re. employment and labour markets, especially with regard to Brexit.
link to tandfonline.com
Towards a theoretical framework for the comparative understanding of globalisation, higher education, the labour market and inequality
link to tandfonline.com
Institutional contexts of political conflicts around free movement in the European Union: a theoretical analysis
link to tandfonline.com
#DissolveTheUnion
For all those Wingers visiting the capital tomorrow and taking a stroll through the lovely parks do NOT forget to take a few EU flags with you to show off our unionism to those deluded British nationalist isolationists 😉
link to youtube.com
The reasons behind the Brexit vote are more complex than simply a response to the financialization of society, IMHO. Analysis that only focuses on one parameter of real life events and circumstances, will not accurately portray reality. For example, Marxists tend to display a fetishism towards capital, hence their poor response to cultural or racial matters.
link to nature.com
link to academic.oup.com
link to euroscientist.com
Given the direction that Britain appears to be heading in, it might be an idea to know a bit about power and racism.
link to tandfonline.com
“But I’m not a racist!” Phenomenology, racism, and the body schema in white, pre-service teacher education
link to tandfonline.com
The specter of racism: exploring White racial anxieties in the context of policing
link to tandfonline.com
The violent and world-weary lyrics don’t really match the chillout style but it’s still a classic, imo:
link to youtube.com
FAO Ronnie Anderson,
I am fairly certain that you will be in contact with Ken (iScot)
– if you are in touch, please tell him I have been trying to email him for the past couple of weeks.
The stuff is ready and I will deliver to his home address whenever is convenient for him.
I hope everything is OK and my emails are just going astray/junk folder.
The stuff I have is for both you and he to divvy up to help your fundraisers. Don’t want to put my email out there in cyberspace, but Ian Brotherhood may still have it.
Cheers
What security does Scotland gain from being dragged out of the EU?
Labi Siffre – I Got The…
link to youtube.com
@ Ronnie, PNR etc
Unfortunately, as wur Ronnie says, a wings stall will not happen.
So, to facilitate wingers meeting wingers I propose that ALL Wingers to head for a wings flag, when they see one, and then WE can ALL congregate in the park under Wings Flags
I posted similar in the morning but it never arrived, spooks eh.
Wass it something I said or have you all fecked off to another yooniverse.
Great March today spoke with a few lurkers but no regulars. Just shows that as YES grows Wings is shrinking, relatively, which is encouraging in a way.
Here’s Janey at her best link to twitter.com
I have a cracking video of a chant from the march, will post when I figure out how to trim it down, don’t want hammers.. ducks.
Great turnout in Edinburgh, totally inspiring and an indication that the ‘status quo’ is socially inadequate. Dunc wasn’t there either.
Transgender Issues
link to philpapers.org
TEENAGE GENDER AMBIGUITY: ETHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
link to med.nyu.edu
ETHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL COMPLEXITIES IN RESEARCH INVOLVING SEXUAL MINORITIES
link to files.eric.ed.gov
@Owen Jones
Hope you’re keeping up with your homework.
Bathroom Bills, Bigotry, and Bioethics
link to thehastingscenter.org
Transgender Rights as Human Rights
link to journalofethics.ama-assn.org
Bioethics in Practice: Ethical Issues in the Care of Transgender Patients
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I managed to catch a lot of folk today, and managed to miss a lot too. Whether I caught you or not I love you all. You feel like family. You are family.
Love you too X Sticks =) xxx
Hi Shinty,
I’ve not seen any mails from you can you e mail me ken(at)iscot(dot)scot
Criminy, we’ve transitioned on to child abuse and the sexual reorientation of minors already (Rev.’s twitter). The transsexual debate has global significance, so it is inappropriate to consider the issue from a purely western, neoliberal, perspective. It is the exclusionary social structures and practices of the colonial era that are responsible for much of modern-day life’s dehumanisation of society.
link to opusgay.org
Transgender? Or TrueGender?
Transgender people don’t choose gender identity any more than the rest of us do.
link to psychologytoday.com
Cultural Competency
link to read.dukeupress.edu
re. the “Woke Stasi”. I doubt many of the left-wing enablers of neoliberalism have given much consideration to the issue, other than an ego-driven conflation of gay-rights and trans-rights. I really wish trans-activists wouldn’t reject biological science that doesn’t fit with their ideologically laden self-righteousness. Trans-women are not women, they are trans-women. Trans-sexuality is constructed in the same manner as everyone else’s sexuality, through the interaction of biology with society. To deny this not only undermines the potential to understand the issue, it epitomises bigotry.
Forgot ma links.
Critical Psychology, Philosophy and Social Therapy
link to loisholzman.org
An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion
link to areomagazine.com
Gender Identity and Psychiatric Ethics
link to psychnews.psychiatryonline.org
re. the “Woke Stasi” and the dangers related to practices such as the prohibition of ‘proscribed’ language. Defending the human rights of biological women does not make one trans-phobic. The “Woke Stasi” need to recognise the damage to civil society they are enabling.
link to ijhssnet.com
Gender-Inclusive Guidelines
Gender-Inclusive / Non-Sexist Language Guidelines and Resources
Advice for Classrooms and Other Spaces
link to wstudies.pitt.edu
Bucking the Linguistic Binary: Gender NeutralLanguage in English, Swedish, French, and German
link to ir.lib.uwo.ca
re. the thinking behind the Scottish Government’s new Victim Task Force.
Preventing and responding to hate crimes
A resource guide for NGOs in the OSCE region
link to osce.org
Hate Crime: Taking Stock Programmes for Offenders of Hate
link to eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Protection of Hate Crime Victims’ Rights: the case of Lithuania
link to eeagrants.org
Back to the “Woke Stasi” and their assistance in the dismemberment of language from meaning.
link to etd.ohiolink.edu
Philosophy of language and mind
link to link.springer.com
Philosophy of language and mind
link to youtube.com
As I’ve already pointed out, the human rights of experiential/biological women need protecting from the colonising nature of power, as do Scots.
link to edinburghuniversitypress.com
Language and Nature
link to ucd.ie
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
link to academiaanalitica.files.wordpress.com
I just thought of a way to summaries the above geek-out.
British nationalism is the same sort of identarian bollocks as a biological man putting on a frock and claiming he is a woman. The British national identity has no foundation in reality, it is a product of ideology. Britain is not a One Nation, it’s persistence negates the humanity of non-English identities (see Brexit).
Sorry, same geek-out. Brexit will shatter the psychological continuity of non-Brexit supporting Scots who though Britain was a functioning democracy. That wasn’t in the Vow, was it?
link to philpapers.org
Introducing persons and the psychology of personhood
link to pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Personal Identity – Philosophy Tube
link to youtube.com
@Fabian Society
It’s just not cricket, what?
The Coasters – Run Red Run
link to youtube.com
Shattered.
How’s about some popcorn while we await life in austerity riven Brextania.
Willie Jones – Wheres my Money
link to youtube.com
An occasional foray…
link to youtube.com
How’s about a bit of cinema to shine a little light on the dialectics of mutually exclusive opposites expressed by contemporary British nationalism, i.e. austerity Brexitania and the principles of Magna Carta Libertatum.
No Country for Old Men – An explanation
link to youtube.com
Jon Spencer’s Blues Explosion – I wanna make it all right
link to youtube.com
@Miss Daines: another occasional foray…..
link to youtube.com
Apologies in advance.
Am I bullying?
@Annie Wells MSP
You could do worse than learn from the former colonies. Might knock some sense into you and salve that fervent nationalism of yours.
link to civilserviceindia.com
Pluralism: Meaning, Importance and Other Details
link to politicalsciencenotes.com
Monist and Pluralist View of Sovereignty
link to managementstudyguide.com
If Britain was a functioning, pluralistic, democracy, we wouldn’t be facing an epidemic in food poverty and poverty related deaths, in the 21st century ffs. Instead, Britain is an ambiguous and failing democracy dominated by Tory sociopaths and their British Labour counterparts. The combination of neoliberalism and British nationalism grantee poor health and social insecurity for the vast majority of those living in Scotland, mk.
link to thecornerhouse.org.uk
‘Julian Huxley and the Continuity of Eugenics in Twentieth-century Britain’
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Social Work and Social Care seminar: Social Work, Neoliberalism and Neo-eugenics
link to healthcare.ac.uk
#DissolveTheUnion
FAO Ken at iscot.
Emails still not getting through.
I can drop off stuff any day next week (you gave me your home address previously) Just give me a day and time,
Cheers.
(apologies to others for disruption)
Came across this on YouTube whilst searching for something else.
Shows the humour of the YES side and is rather amusing.
link to youtube.com
It’s interesting when a Wings reference comes up in a Google search.
This one came up when researching “The Graham Brown Band”. The comments as you read on, are a potted history of what was going on, back in 2016.
link to wingsoverscotland.com
British nationalism is antagonistic towards the situated and experiential nature of being Scottish. It denies agency to Scots and subsequently impinges on individual autonomy. This is harmful to the psychological well-being of Scottish residents, who are unable to project their cultural values into the future (see Brexit).
How Can Positive Psychology Help in The Treatment of Depression?
link to positivepsychologyprogram.com
Positive psychology: Reflecting on the past and projecting into the future
link to psychology.org.au
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Oops. The bottom-most link is for the top paper, obviously. 🙂
@Brian Doonthetoon
I enjoyed both those links. Cheers.
@ hackalumpoff
Sorry you missed the Wings flag. If you were on the march, ye must have had yer dark glasses on! Wings flag prominently flying at the bottom of the Royal Mile alongside the Choose Scotland banner facing up the street where the march turned the corner of the Scottish Parliament.
There you would have found Ronnie, Briandoonthetoon, JimT and moi. We were there for over three hours and had visits from several Wings folk inc Ken (iScot). It was a grand place to position ourselves as we probably had the best view of the march in the town.
For all those we didn’t see, maybe next time… 🙂
@Dr. Adrian Harrop.
Where did you get your medical license, a cereal box? Stop taking the acid, ya woman-hating fannybawz.
link to sociologicalimagination.org
Relating realist metatheory to issues of gender and mental health.
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Dominant and its Constitutive Other: Feminist Theorizations of Love, Power and Gendered Selves
link to tandfonline.com
Betty Boop
It was lovely to meet up and sorry for the no-show at Deacon B’s. I wasn’t feeling particularly social by the time I’d gotten back to my flat and gone through a pile of unopened mail. Maybe next time. 😉
Betty Boop
Scratch that, I’m getting Wingers mixed up. Maybe next time tough. 😉
Onnyhoo…
It’s weird when you’re researching a particular topic via Google or YouTube or whatever and you find yourself getting further and further into what turns up, to the extent that you forget what you were originally researching.
So, I started mulling things over, Scottish comedy-wise. What has gone wrong with the BBC’s Scottish outpost? OK, I enjoyed “Still Game” and “Chewin’ the Fat” and “Rab C Nesbitt” but the Scottish branch seems to have turned inward over the past 20 years or so.
They produced some great stuff in the 80s and early 90s but where’a the ‘cutting edge’ these days? Even the “Scottish Lift’ is from around 7 years ago.
Maybe it’s time (or after indy) to do stuff like the content of the links below. Where did Rik Mayall get his big break?
By the way, his signature tune is “Alle Marcia” from the Karelia Suite by Sibelius.
link to youtube.com
Those sketches were from “A Kick Up The Eighties”, produced by BBC Scotland.
Another classic from “A Kick Up The Eighties”,
link to youtube.com
I’ll stick the last couple of links in a following post.
@ Betty Boop, there were 2 wings flags, well apart, in front of me as we left Johnstone Terrace. Who was haudin them ah dinna ken.
@Pamela Nash
You have all the appearance of cult member, did you honestly study politics and specialise in human rights and international development? Britain is one of the least equal societies in the developed world, with one of the lowest rates of economic productivity. How do you square Brexit with the inability of Scots to access the “Right to Development” and sundry other human rights? How can you support Northern Ireland gaining preferential treatment re. Brexit, whilst ignoring the popular sovereignty of the Scottish public?
Is the University of Glasgow a serious academic institution or a platform for British nationalism and bias knowledge production?
Political Economy, Measurement and Effects on Performance
Institutions, socio-economic models and development: An overview of the literature and a methodology
link to oecd.org
The True Measures of Success
link to hbr.org
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach
link to people.bu.edu
I can’t ignore “Naked Video”.
“Naked Video – Paul Simon’s agent meets with an orange band”
link to youtube.com
And who can forget “The Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation”?
link to youtube.com
Mind you, Channel 4, back in the day, weren’t averse to exploiting Scottish comedy talent. I have the box set on dvd. Good stuff. Stoneybridge should get a blue plaque or the Scottish equivalent.
link to youtube.com
Now, I’m wondering…
Why didn’t this comment appear two minutes after I’d posted the previous one?
There was no “http” and so on before the links so what has put the post into purgatory? I’ll try reposting…
I can’t ignore “Naked Video”.
“Naked Video – Paul Simon’s agent meets with an orange band”
link to youtube.com
And who can forget “The Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Corporation”?
link to youtube.com
Mind you, Channel 4, back in the day, weren’t averse to exploiting Scottish comedy talent. I have the box set on dvd. Good stuff. Stoneybridge should get a blue plaque or the Scottish equivalent.
link to youtube.com
Weird…
My second post seems to have woken up the WordPress system.
Weird…
My second post seems to have woken up the WordPress system.
Why did it take around an hour to appear?
Oh dear, I think I may have broken loopy fuddiface in a thread appropriately named insanity, I have this vision of him following my instructions, following my instructions, following my instructions …
IMHO, Pamela Nash is either a hopeless liar or is completely detached from reality.
link to siteresources.worldbank.org
Human Rights and Development: a Comment on Challenges and Opportunities from a Legal Perspective
link to academic.oup.com
Failures and Successes of Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Towards a Change Perspective
link to tandfonline.com
@Pamela Nash
London’s intention to drag Scotland out of the EU, is an affront to the international rule-of-law and the principle of universal human rights. Britain is not One Nation, allegedly it is a voluntary political union of nations. You’re certainly no patriot of Scotland, IMHO.
link to harvardilj.org
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights
link to mancept.com
Human rights in international relations
link to socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk
Wee wings gathering in Gretna fir the main man?
Whaz up fir it?
re. the Tories and mental health. IMHO, the Prime minister displays many of the characteristics common to right-wing, authoritarian, sociopaths. Did someone not suggest she had the air of a Nazi about her? She is not fit for public-office, IMHO.
link to rcpsych.ac.uk
Better Mental Health For All
A public health approach to mental health improvement
link to fph.org.uk
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
That includes you Cam. 😉
William Wallace
I’ve never been to Gretna, sounds like a wee adventure. 😉
Maybe it’s a great place for you to give a talk Cam. You have so much to say but, you are limiting your audience here. Help me organise a good night oot fir the big man ;). He deserves nothing less.
Ignore me folks – as per. Making an arse o myself.
William Wallace
Sorry for leaving you hanging William but I just had to go and change my pants. 😉
LEROY AND THE DRIVERS – The Sad Chicken
link to youtube.com
@ Cam
Nah I meant ignore my original suggestion. It might not have been my brightest idea.
re. the gulf between what Scotland wants and what Scotland is prepared to vote for.
link to marxists.org
link to glocalismjournal.net
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
More on opening minds to new horizons.
link to psychologytoday.com
Social psychological reactions to social change and instability : fear of status loss, social discrimination and foreigner hostility
link to journals.openedition.org
Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International Edition
Changing Attitudes through Persuasion
link to opentextbc.ca
And a bit more ’cause the Cringe is strong in some.
link to tandfonline.com;
Fear and psychological reactance: Between- versus within-individuals perspectives.
link to psycnet.apa.org
Functional Freedom: A Psychological Model of Freedom in Decision-Making
link to mdpi.com
The enhanced agency that Scotland’s social character will gain through autonomous self-government, can be expected to result in significant benefits to the psychological health of the nation. Just imagine, Scottish residents will be empowered with real choice and government that is emotionally connected to the electorate. Such empathy has been shown to improve the competance and ethical quality of decision making.
Funky Destination – The Inside Man (Soopasoul remix)
link to youtube.com
re. a written constitution for Scotland.
link to sv.uio.no
Self-Interest and the Constitution
link to chicagounbound.uchicago.edu
Constructivism and Reflexive Constitution-Making Practices
link to cairn.info
@Pamela Nash
Did you really study politics, international development and human rights? You hide it extremely well. Not concerned about the likely impact Brexit will have on Scotland’s civil society and cultural integrity? Are you a Tory?
link to culturalpolicies.net
Mrs Smallaxe…
If you’re reading through to keep oor Smallaxe up to date!!
Tell him we’re asking for him and sending much love..
We are also thinking of you and hope you are looking after yourself too, and if you’re getting any nonsense!!! just tell him you’ll report it to off topic, and he’ll be in big trouble XX
I wonder if Karen White’s life sentence will convince Dr. Adrian Harrop that he is wrong, or if he will continue to be a misogynist dick who misleads the ignorant, the gullible and the woke?
link to researchgate.net
A Self-study into Developing Queer and Critical Pedagogies on Youth and Community Work Courses.
link to lra.le.ac.uk
Empowering Women: The Next Step in Human Evolution?
link to journals.sagepub.com
re. is the DWP guilty of corporate manslaughter, at the very least?
link to classic.austlii.edu.au
Liberal Rights and Critical Legal Theory
link to static1.squarespace.com
Unger’s Philosophy: A Critical Legal Study
link to scholarship.law.upenn.edu
Just when you think society has regained its grip on reality. Trans-activist ideology articulates misogyny aimed at dislocating language from meaning and ultimately feeds in to the Neo-liberal project of redefining human rights through the power of economic force. Trans-activism is a form of authoritarian, neoliberal, totalitarianism.
link to psychologytoday.com
The global politics of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender human rights: an introduction
link to tandfonline.com
The Politics and Ethics of Disenfranchisement
link to mancept.com
re. George Galloway. I think I might already have mentioned he’s a man who is unable to allow his ethics to rise above his beliefs. A political gadfly. A charlatan and ultimately a tool of the Establisment.
Hi folks, it’s kinda quiet around here just now.Anyone have a wee update on how our friend Smallaxe is doing. I know that he has not been too well of late, but by jings wee all miss him. Especially on O/T.
Where’s everyone gone, Thepnr, Tinto, Ian B. we all just seem to pop in now and again. I know I’ve been MIA as well around her, but you know, sometimes all this crap that gets thrown at us all the time, gets you down. I need to take a break now and again, just to recharge the batteries.
Hi Marie,
I spoke to Smallaxe yesterday, he is almost over a chest infection but needs to take care he doesn’t go and catch some other bug.
He was in good form and sends his best wishes to all.
I’m sure once he recovers his strength, he’ll be back here spinning the discs.
re. the Spanish Vice President. Fascists tend to be a bit thick and detached from reality. Who needs brains when you have a radical yet apparently familiar political religion and are told what to think from above? Talking of such, how much longer will Scotland put up with the Tory’s articulation of authoritarian, right-wing, British nationalism?
link to opendemocracy.net
Contemporary Far-Right Racist Populism in Europe
link to tandfonline.com
link to theneweuropean.co.uk
Nana, thanks for the update on Smallaxe. I’m pleased to hear that he is improving, look forward to him coming back to O/T.
Send him my love and best wishes Nana if you are in touch with him again.
re. shared values. Somehow I don’t see Brexit enhancing the social capital enjoyed by Scottish residents, nor any sense they might have of democratic inclusion. Contemporary British nationalism poses a considerable threat to Scotland’s public health, culture and civic society in general.
link to emeraldinsight.com
Biomedical Hegemony: A Critical Perspective on the Cultural Imperialism of Modern Biomedical Perspectives on Human Life
link to euroacademia.eu
link to scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu
I haven’t felt this radical since my twenties. 🙂
Violent Femmes – Love Love Love Love Love
link to youtube.com
Anybody got any succinct comment on the march or the SNP conference that I could reference on my Roundabout show on Argyll Independent Radio at 7 tonight
Ideologically drive scholarly practice isn’t new, I was aware of it in the social sciences 30 years ago (though I was never a proper scholar). Critical theory, post-structuralism and social constructivist views emerged as a response to the dehumanising and totalitarian aspects of modernity. They are useful in the production of knowledge but must be kept in check, largely through keeping a watchful eye on epistemology and ontology.
Sources of Method Bias in Social Science Research and Recommendations on How to Control It
link to annualreviews.org
Post-structuralism, Realism and the Question of Knowledge in Educational Sociology: a Derridian critique of social realism in education
link to journals.sagepub.com
The Specials – Do the Dog
link to youtube.com
Hi, Marie.
I think Smallaxe has had some serious computer problems too which have been preventing him from his disc-jockey duties.
@DMH: can’t think of anything pithy to say re Saturday other than I never thought I’d see 100000 people march through Embra for independence. I first voted SNP in 1974 and in those days you were regarded as a fruit loop.
Marie: you may like this…..
link to youtube.com
I have a problem with this passage, which appears to reject Michel Foucault’s study of power and knowledge production. That’s bold of them. Who are these dudes and what’s their politics?
link to areomagazine.com
Dmh is Argyll Independent radioon the Internet, cant get from Brodick
I feel I have to defend social constructavism now, which makes me a wee bit suspicious of the motives behind the areaomagazine article. The Frankfurt School needs no defense from me.
link to tandfonline.com
link to jsser.org
Social Constructivism – Science topic
Explore the latest articles, projects, and questions and answers in Social Constructivism, and find Social Constructivism experts.
link to researchgate.net
Ah Tinto, you know me so well. Yes I’ve always liked that song, great, but nowadays I prefer this one. Maybe it’s just me getting auld and slowing down, but I really like old slow hand and this version. Does it for me everytime.
link to youtube.com
By the way, how’s Harvey these days, is he behaving himself?
Here’s a wee song for Smallaxe, hope he’s maybe reading this.
link to youtube.com
Hi folks, I’ve risen to the occasion.
link to youtube.com
🙂
Lenny Hartley: Try this, Lenny;
link to raddio.net
It’s not really possible to understand the world in a post-positivist sense, without an appreciation of society’s constructive force. Positivism is bad when studying social space, mk.
Like anything though, you can take a thing too far.
Social Constructionism
link to youtube.com
Professor Obliterates the idea that Gender is a ‘Social Construct’
link to youtube.com
From Identity to Non-Identity & Back Again: Feminist Dialectical Realism – Laura Gillman
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe
Great to see you around, hope your feeling stronger soon.
Hey, smallaxe, good to see you’ve risen.
DMH, It was great. Succinct enough?
There was a bright double rainbow when we were sitting outside the pub later on, a sign?
Cammy. don’t think putting up loads of interesting links lets you off failing to join us for a wee drinkie.
Evening, Marie.
Acoustic Layla? Perhaps a step too far…..
Harvey’s a bit down, tbh. Walked all the Royal Mile on Saturday and not a carrot in sight.
At least Smallaxe is back.
Stand by your bedpans…..
Hi Smallaxe, good to see you back, hope you’re feeling a lot better.
Hi, all you folks up there, let’s cheer this place up a bit. 🙂
link to youtube.com
‘At least Smallaxe is back’. I know that you meant to say ‘at last Smallaxe is back’, Tinto…ye did, didn’t ye?
Hi everybody, my computer is misbehaving a bit, bear with me.
😉
Some more Slowhand, Marie?
link to youtube.com
Hoots Smallaxe!
🙂
Seeing your post there has made my day.
More power to ye mister!
🙂
@Marie –
Hoots to you too!
Here’s a funky version of Inner City Blues (but it’s not by Marvin Gaye…)
link to youtube.com
Hi Sma. 🙂
Good to see you back. Aff topic was near deid withoot yir presence. Hope you are feeling much better.
Hi, Ian!
This one’s for you.
link to youtube.com
That’s jazz!
🙂
Hi Wull!
Take this at bedtime;
link to youtube.com
😉
Hi guys, Tinto, Smallaxe and Ian, thanks for the music. I’m still really an auld rock chick underneath, I think I’m just in a quieter mood this evening. Nice tunes, all of them.
I’m glad I asked the question earlier today about where everyone was. William Wallace has it right, Aff topic was near deid. Yay the world has bee put to right, I feel better already. Cheers guys.
And now for a bit of Management and Applied Science. Sorry for being a geek but I’m concerned folk might take freight at social constructavism.
There is a problem in the authoritarian and scientifically incorrect application of certain interpretations of gender theory. There is also too much tribal hostility for the general public to make sense of the debate. I’m no gender theorist but I think an appreciation of Feminist Dialectical Realism would help lift the scales from many eyes (see above). This combines a scientifically grounded critical realist approach to studying gender, with interpretative constructivism (hope my terminology is acceptable as I am very rusty).
link to iraj.in
link to eric.ed.gov
And now for the secret of my success.
link to youtube.com
Hi Marie, in a quiet mood this evening?
“Turn Your Lights Down Low”
link to youtube.com
Don’t take the words too literally.
🙂
Lenny Hartley at 7.11
Should be available in Brodick. I’ve got friends listening in Nigeria.
Seemed to be a broadband problem tonight however as it was cutting out for about a couple of seconds off and on.
Ye dancin’?
The Dreamboats: “Hippy Hippy Shake”
link to youtube.com
Should really be The Dramboats on here, shouldn’tit?
😉
Hi Smallaxe… So good to see you in your 2nd home.. don’t be going daft now!!
Love to Mrs Smallaxe (also a hero of mine) xxxx
…………..
William Wallace
Hello and where you been hiding too ?
Hope everything is doing ok in all things Wallace xx
……………..
Dave McEwen Hill
I don’t know about a sound bites!!
But it was very much decided ( you had, I suppose to be there) that when telling our great grandchildren “what we did in the struggle for Indy” we would be able to say…
“Well we hired a flat”..??!!!’’***•
?
Cameron, I’ll see your 5.6.7.8s and raise you 6.7.8.9s;
“Woo Hoo”
link to youtube.com
🙂
Hey Smallaxe welcome back and great to have you here again!
The children of Off Topic have all missed they’re mother while you’ve been away, especially Tinto but all is well now.
A wee tune to welcome you back “mother” 🙂
link to youtube.com
Hi Liz, thank you, I’ll play this for Mrs Smallaxe.
Jim Croce: “Time in a Bottle”
link to youtube.com
S’luvly, intit.
🙂
@Smallaxe –
Thanks for the Gil-Scott link, I knew the track but hadn’t seen that YT version, lovely montage along with it too.
You’re on fire the night mister!
🙂
Thepnr, Here you go,’son’,
Johnny Cash: “Singing In Vietnam Talking Blues”
link to youtube.com
Did you know that mother and child reunion is a Jamaican dish made with chicken and eggs?
S’luvly!
😉
@Smallaxe
Thanks for the Johnny Cash number, another great one and you know how to push my buttons. No, I didn’t know about the chicken and eggs mibbee Sybil could give me the recipe:)
Here’s a tune you might have missed in your absence, I’m playing it again because I can and I love a bit of bluegrass 🙂
link to youtube.com
The Corrs: “Everybody Hurts”
link to youtube.com
“Take comfort in your friends”
@Smallaxe
That version of that song gave me goosebumps. It was brilliant “da” 🙂
Thepnr, it’s actually a Chinese dish but they don’t call it mother and child reunion.
🙂
Eric Clapton: “Over the Rainbow”
link to youtube.com
Goodnight, folks.
Thepnr @ 10.52
Mother???
Then..
12.04 Da??
Have you been reading the Revs Twitter and loosing track too??
Anyhoo
Can you ask Mrs pnr what her thoughts are about Vicks Vapour Rub?
Has she tried it?
And did it work??
I know she hadn’t heard of it before, but using it “that” way does come highly recommended??
Chicken Foo Yung! Feck Off LOL
Nighty night.
Smallaxe
A much underated band, IMHO, though some might think me a bit weird. 😉
5, 6, 7, 8s – Bomb The Twist
link to youtube.com
“Wingnut”? This attitude will not assist the social empowerment of women. I could say more but I’m a team player.
link to socresonline.org.uk
Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
link to scholarworks.umass.edu
Viewpoint: Understanding Anti-transgender Feminism
link to discoversociety.org
Steven Pinker on Sex Differences, Human Nature, and Identity Politics (Pt. 1)
link to youtube.com
Smallaxe, you are a veritable catalyst, sirrah.
Who’s been eating a Vesta curry in the gentlemen’s excuse me?
Someone lacking in the culinary discernment dept.
I suppose it is only natural that there’s widespread confusion over what sex and gender are and how they relate to human rights. Though a pretty straightforward concept, the cultural tools available to the general public are not adequate to the task of critically considering the full complexity of the issue. This problem also appears to affect many of our policy makers (socially privileged members of the general public with a managerial responsibility to protect society).
link to jfsonline.org
GENERATION X AND THE INVENTION OF A THIRD FEMINIST WAVE
link to etd.ohiolink.edu
Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor
link to researchgate.net
Sex is biological and gender is psychological, generated through the interaction of the biological with the social.
Crossing Sexual Boundaries: Transgender Journeys, Uncharted Paths
link to link.springer.com
Measures of Transgender Behavior
link to link.springer.com
Messer Chups – Sex change
link to youtube.com
cearc says: “Someone lacking in the culinary discernment dept.”
Indeed. I remember when they were the height of soffistication in the 60s. You even got a few sultanas in them, as I recall. And there was disgusting Heinz curry powder with too much turmeric and fenugreek and no cumin or garam masala.
Never mind, when we’re out the EU, we can go back to the dreadful food we had in the fifties, including sossages wot never saw a piggy.
Another Great Thott I must share with you before I go a-nadgering is about the demise of The Scotsman. I used to buy it in the 70s and early 80s. It was quite progressive and even supported a teachers’ strike as I recall, had a great Letters page and a variety of wicked X-Word compilers. And Albert Morris’s column, full of low-key hilarious madness, like a teetotal Flann O’Brien.
Then Brillo Heid and Murdoch came along and destroyed it all.
*Muse over*
Hey guys, have you ever considered changing your name to Loretta? 🙂
link to onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Why “intergenerational feminist media studies”?
Why “intergenerational feminist media studies”?
link to tandfonline.com
Reclaiming and Reconciling What Was Originally Ours—Christianity and Feminism: A Concise History
link to digitalcommons.calpoly.edu
re. ideological rigidity and the closing down of debate.
link to depts.washington.edu
Economics as a pluralist liberal education
link to res.org.uk
UNITARISM, PLURALISM, RADICALISM… AND THE REST ?
Why the frames of reference approach is still relevant to the study of industrial relations, but why we need nine frames rather than just three.
link to unige.ch
re. the racialised ideological rigidity of Brexit and the government’s apparent inability to adequately respond to complexity.
Complexity Management Theory: Motivation for Ideological Rigidity and Social Conflict
link to researchgate.net
WHY A BALANCE IS BEST: THE PLURALIST INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS PARADIGM OF BALANCING COMPETING INTERESTS
link to jbudd.csom.umn.edu
Shifting paradigms: towards economic pluralism
link to opendemocracy.net
I’m on the point of giving up myself, with some of the fuckwits we have in the movement, projecting their own prejudice and ego laden ideology on to those they disapprove of.
love – everybody’s gotta live
link to youtube.com
‘height of soffistication’, well not quite.
Add a few prawns with a dollop of ketchup on a lettuce leaf for ‘orse derv and you had a dinner party, puur posh, eh?
cearc: Abigail’s (dinner) Party, perhaps.
Mine’s a white pudding supper btw.
Here’s one for those who still think it possible to change sex, or that the distinction between biological women and trans-women is unimportant. Trans-activism is characterised by scientific ignorance and articulates “gender ideology” that is illiberal and counter to individual autonomy. As such, it undermines the potential for emancipatory social transformation.
link to revisesociology.com
link to medium.com
Gender ideology, new right, new left. Mr. Agustín Laje
link to youtube.com
P.S. As “gender ideology” is illiberal in nature, it requires the states assistance in order to become established and to function.
Doh! Link for Gender Ideologies in Europe.
link to ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tinto, white pudding?
Get your Teef into this;
link to youtube.com
Did you enjoy that?
🙂
CameronB Brodie says:
13 October 2018 at 6:13 pm
“I’m on the point of giving up myself”
Don’t give yourself up, Cameron. Go on the lam, like me!
link to youtube.com
Keep on running mate.
🙂
That last track was quite haunting, wasn’t it, this one is even more so.
link to youtube.com
Ur ye feart?
@Smallaxe: far out, man, like my teef.
Don’t have a late night ‘cos we’re auditioning for McCann and Goldberg ramorra, remember and I have to work out what my motivation is.
Ooh, where’s me washboard?
Laters, haters.
cearc, this one is for you.
link to youtube.com
Don’t tell me to cluck off, please.
🙂
Just in case folk can’t be bothered checking out expert evidence and opinion, gender ideology comes from the New Left but feeds into the New Right’s desire to turn the clock back to a patriarchal society.
Those who seek to shut down this debate are practicing authoritarian totalitarianism. They might want to reconsider the ethics of their own conduct? Perhaps not?
link to thepublicdiscourse.com
The far left and far right converge on transgender rights in Canada: Neil Macdonald
link to cbc.ca
link to unherd.com
For Nana,
link to youtube.com
Thanks’ for All that you do.
🙂
Tinto,
Yer motivation!Jist mind and loss a bit a weight this time, a’ve telt ye afore aboot that!
link to youtube.com
Remember?
😉
Smallaxe
I’ve no real plans to stop mate. It just frustrates when those who should be lightening to public concerns, appear not be interested.
Portishead – Roads
link to youtube.com
@Smallaxe –
One for you, and abody else who has a family. (!)
‘Now, more than ever, all the families must be together…’
Gil Scott Heron, ‘Peace Go With You Brother’
link to youtube.com
Cameron, there are always some people that you’ll never get through to, don’t let it frustrate you, others are getting the message.
Streets;
link to youtube.com
Go placidly, my friend.
Beautiful, Ian, thanks’ for that.
Another poet;
link to youtube.com
Thepnr likes this one.
Listen to the Man;
link to youtube.com
Cock-a-doodle-doo,
I hadn’t heard Sam Cooke for ages.
How about Gordon Lightfoot?
link to youtube.com
re. the dysfunctional inhumanity we are witnessing in the Palestine. You won’t hear this perspective on the BBC. It would upset their Neo-colonial narrative.
link to journals.sagepub.com
Zionism: A Critical Account 1897-1948. The Development of Israel and the Exodus of Palestine from A “New Historian” Perspective.
link to polis.leeds.ac.uk
Promised Land or Homeland?
link to jewishreviewofbooks.com
@Smallaxe
Yes I do like it, a very cheery tune and I’m a cheery fellow 🙂
The Promised Land;
link to youtube.com
Nuff sed!
A cheery song for a cheery fellow;
Stevie Wonder: “Uptight” (Everything’s Alright)
link to youtube.com
🙂
Good Night.
link to youtube.com
Dream sweet dreams for me, dream sweet dreams for you.
@Smallaxe
You’re a cracking man Billy and I wish I’d known you earlier in my life. I think you would have had an influence especially if I met you when I still lived in Glasgow.
Anyways I’m happy that I have met you and your lovely missus x
I think of you as my friend and a brother because we’re the same.
link to youtube.com
We’ll meet again soon Alex.
“Brother to Brother”
link to youtube.com
Each of us enters this world on our own
bonded together by forces unknown
first, we crawl and then stumble
then learn how to run
one day we find ourselves running for home
Brother to brother
father to son
mother and daughter
together as one
Fight all our battles
make our amends
shoulder to shoulder
until the end.
Peace brother, good night.
🙂
Goodnight to you also Billy, I think your a wise man.
Much respect.
While violent struggle in the Palestine is still fresh in folks imagination, I don’t know if anyone remembers me suggesting British nationalism and Zionist nationalism shared pathological similarities.
link to oxfordhandbooks.com
link to dsq-sds.org
link to criticallegalthinking.com
re. The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the gender re-alignment of minors. It certainly looks as if the Scottish judicial system has caved in to the anti-scientific and illiberal sophistry of “gender ideology”..
Jurisprudence and Gender
link to scholarship.law.georgetown.edu
The Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and the
gendergenital mutilation of minors.From a post-colonial, critical realist, feminist legal studies perspective, gender ideology is bad, mk.
link to internationalstudies.oxfordre.com
Feminist Jurisprudence: Grounding the Theories
link to scholarship.law.berkeley.edu
RECONSTRUCTION OF GENDER LAW VIA A CRITICAL DISCOURSE
ANALYSIS OF TRANS AND 3rdWAVE FEMINIST NARRATIVES OF SEXUAL SUBJECTIVITY
link to e-space.mmu.ac.uk
Good to see you back, Smallaxe!
And HELLO to Mrs Smallaxe!
8=)
re. the legally instituted practice of giving cervical smears to biological men.
link to oxfordscholarship.com
The Variety of Feminisms and their Contribution to Gender Equality
link to diglib.bis.uni-oldenburg.de
Feminism and rational choice theory
link to myweb.fsu.edu
re. Tory voting parents who can’t see the inherent inhumanity underpinning contemporary social policy. The easiest way to change minds is to convince folk not to consume the corporate media, especially the BBC. I imagine David Torrance would agree, that is if he were an ethical being, given his degree in psychology and shit.
link to utwente.nl
How and Why to Reduce the Cognitive Dissonance You Feel
link to everydayhealth.com
Principles of Social Psychology – 1st International Edition
Changing Attitudes by Changing Behavior
link to opentextbc.ca
The Tory mind is probably a hopeless case but the Conservative mind is defiantly open to persuasion. Remember though, the conservative mind is preoccupied with fear and anxiety, and they don’t handle new concepts or scenarios particularly well. So take it easy on the poor souls, as the thought of change scares the wits out of them. 😉
link to communicationstudies.com
The Critique of Uncertainty Reduction
link to cedar.wwu.edu
Uncertainty Reduction: Definition, Theory & Examples
link to study.com
Sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself.
link to behavioraleconomics.com
link to instituteforpr.org
10 Strategies You Can Use to Overcome Resistance to Change
link to opwl.boisestate.edu