Wings Over Scotland

Recent Comments

• Effijy on Scotland In Numbers: “And I thought all candidates for the Raving Looney Party wore top hats. Looks like they are wearing yellow and…” Feb 18, 00:42
• Cameron Lochiel on Scotland In Numbers: “It’s about time we gave up and let the bees take over” Feb 18, 00:04
• Confused on The Longest Road: “Academic writing is boring, flatulent, nonsense, often dipped in jargon, sophistry, even when it is something straightforward; picking through this…” Feb 17, 23:26
• agentx on The Longest Road: “I am pleased to report the Isle of Islay has safely arrived at A Coruna, Spain. Bay of Biscay next!…” Feb 17, 22:02
• Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: ““they clamp the blinkers on tightly” That seems an apt way to describe somebody who refuses to answer a simple…” Feb 17, 20:22
• 100%Yes on The Longest Road: “Slow down, your over thinking politics. Try focusing on the morons back home. Trumps played his TRUMP card and lost…” Feb 17, 19:19
• David Holden on The Longest Road: “Still not seen Melania the movie and it is unlikely to make it onto the Screen Machine play list I…” Feb 17, 18:15
• Sven on The Longest Road: “Did you not inadvertently omit a comma from that book title, agentx ? Surely it should read, “Chunky, new chapter”.” Feb 17, 17:44
• TURABDIN on The Longest Road: “TRUMP the great dictator or the great liberator?….hmmmm If he gets away with this playacting the world becomes the US…” Feb 17, 17:44
• GM on The Longest Road: “It has fuck all to do with his political leanings. I am delighted someone has taken the case on and…” Feb 17, 17:23
• 100%Yes on The Longest Road: “Your welcome Sarah.” Feb 17, 17:08
• bobo bunny on The Longest Road: “Curiouser and curiouser” Feb 17, 16:18
• bobo bunny on The Longest Road: “See how you feel 4 years from now when you are rolling around in aditch, fighting over the last mouldy…” Feb 17, 16:15
• bobo bunny on The Longest Road: “Ok fine. Election. He isn’t doing this because he cares about Alex Salmonds’ legacy, or the cause of independence -…” Feb 17, 16:10
• Alf Baird on The Longest Road: ““they clamp the blinkers on tightly” That seems an apt way to describe the effect of a ‘colonial mindset’ affecting…” Feb 17, 15:07
• Cynicus on The Longest Road: “MaggieC says: “ So tremble false wigs in the midst of yer glee“ ========== Amen to your sentiment, Maggie. There…” Feb 17, 15:05
• sam on The Longest Road: “Northcode I think this is why it happened. Frae the BBC. “The estate of former first minister Alex Salmond is…” Feb 17, 14:10
• Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “It’s an interesting case, right enough. As already covered by Our Host, not that long ago, Mr Hirst lost his…” Feb 17, 14:05
• Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “To paraphrase my dear departed Mammie: Fa “classified [ye] as an inferior subject rather than an equal citizen”, Alf? Haha,…” Feb 17, 13:40
• sarah on The Longest Road: “@ 100%Yes: good man for posting this link to the Mark Hirst crowdfunder. What a wonderful day it will be…” Feb 17, 13:23
• Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “Enough of that, Northy. I don’t want you subtly fooling me into thinking an interstellar Pict can ever be regarded…” Feb 17, 12:42
• Alf Baird on The Longest Road: “Yes indeed, very interesting, including the definition of “modern colonialism” which: “depends first and foremost upon the declaration of sovereignty…” Feb 17, 12:38
• Northcode on The Longest Road: “From the same article. “…colonialism depends first and foremost upon the declaration of sovereignty and/or territorial seizure by a core…” Feb 17, 12:34
• willie on The Longest Road: “I think civil actions can effectively be be bought and sold, The classic example of this is no win,no fee…” Feb 17, 12:22
• 100%Yes on The Longest Road: “He was revealing a lot more than people took on.” Feb 17, 12:22
• Northcode on The Longest Road: “I rarely feel the urge to respond to your stuff, but you actually made me laugh out loud… not bad…” Feb 17, 12:17
• Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “Whoops! “For all their theoretical insights, neither postcolonial theory nor decolonial studies systematically demonstrate through sustained empirical investigation the means…” Feb 17, 12:07
• Hatey McHateface on The Longest Road: “You choose to ignore the complications, Alf. Colonisation is like a set of those nested Orc dolls, with the additional…” Feb 17, 12:03
• Northcode on The Longest Road: “I think there might be more to this story than just someone blowing their trumpet over their ‘funding’ of another’s…” Feb 17, 11:55
• sam on The Longest Road: “Northcode, Alf, others. This is worth reading, I think. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/reverberations-of-empire-how-the-colonial-past-shapes-the-present/178FA24536F578B3EFE2434DFDB87846” Feb 17, 11:55