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    • Hatey McHateface on The Shortest Day: “Good post, Northy. Lacking only references to and quotes from the post colonial boys (Fanon, Memmi, Cesaire, etc.) to make…Aug 30, 16:47
    • Hatey McHateface on The Shortest Day: “I’m sure something happened in 1066 that made the “English” of 1018 a different people/race/tribe/dynasty from the “English” of 1067…Aug 30, 16:39
    • Young Lochinvar on The Shortest Day: “MB “He (Cnut) became King” Should read “He became King of England”. As for never being beaten, dying at 40…Aug 30, 16:36
    • TURABDIN on The Shortest Day: “everywhere fools, useless idiots and referendum freaks. Scottish democracy is a grotesque inarticulate Frankenstein monster best not viewed in daylight.…Aug 30, 16:10
    • Mark Beggan on The Shortest Day: “@ young Lochinvar It is artistic licence. Loosely based on history. Uhtred spanned four kings and fought in about eighty…Aug 30, 15:58
    • Young Lochinvar on The Shortest Day: “MB Errr, that’s a no. No matter how much you wish it so..Aug 30, 15:31
    • DaveL on The Shortest Day: “If it was up to Chas we’d still be living in caves. “What? Build a shelter? Best not, we don’t…Aug 30, 15:09
    • Mark Beggan on The Shortest Day: “No Lochy I was there., I remember distinctly Uhtred kicking the shit out of the Scot. I can still see…Aug 30, 15:01
    • sam on The Shortest Day: “The first paragraph of Aidan’s post is irrelevant. “Growth in a time of Debt” was published in January 2010. George…Aug 30, 14:49
    • Mark Beggan on The Shortest Day: “That was a worthy effort Northy. The psychiatrists just give him 100mg of largactil three times daily.Aug 30, 14:44
    • Young Lochinvar on The Shortest Day: “One to celebrate; On this month in history (best reckoned as August 1018) the Scots under Malcolm II “Forranach” (the…Aug 30, 14:42
    • Aidan on The Shortest Day: “Why be so equivocal Alf, why not; Do you want: – to be tortured in the fires of hell for…Aug 30, 14:19
    • Chas on The Shortest Day: “Stu. What about starting a ‘crowdfunder’ to get some medical help for Che? If this was a success and the…Aug 30, 14:12
    • Alf Baird on The Shortest Day: “Yes James, if Swinney were really our national liberator he would select a referendum question befitting the reality of the…Aug 30, 14:03
    • Northcode on The Shortest Day: “No, James, I didn’t. Yours is a classic example of someone mixing historical grievance, constitutional myth, and modern legal reality…Aug 30, 13:43
    • Mark Beggan on The Shortest Day: ““What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.” – Captain, ‘Cool Hand Luke’ That is exactly what we’ve got here…Aug 30, 13:29
    • James Che on The Shortest Day: “Alex Salmond like other politicians never read the details, and the SNP today ignore that the old parliament of England…Aug 30, 13:25
    • James Che on The Shortest Day: “North Code. You sadly missed the point on the Scotland act and the 2014 referendum. It is not up to…Aug 30, 13:00
    • Mark Beggan on The Shortest Day: ““Same Shit Different Day” was specifically written for you James. You own that one.Aug 30, 12:59
    • Mark Beggan on The Shortest Day: “There are some men who think they are women and some women who think they are men. There are even…Aug 30, 12:52
    • Aidan on The Shortest Day: “The really incredible part of the story is how David Cameron/George Osbourne, when divising economic policy in 2008/9, were able…Aug 30, 12:24
    • Chas on The Shortest Day: “Easy answer Sam. Who will do the how’s and when? The SNP? Are there people waiting on the periphery ready…Aug 30, 12:24
    • sam on The Shortest Day: “https://russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spreadsheet-that-broke-britain?r=lwml0&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web “In 2013 Thomas Herndon, an unsung, 20-something economics student from Massachusetts, was handed a homework assignment. He was tasked…Aug 30, 11:57
    • Aidan on The Shortest Day: “It’s nonsense to suggest that this single paper was the entire basis for the post-2010 coalition economy policy, not least…Aug 30, 11:47
    • Hatey McHateface on The Shortest Day: “You barsturt, CC. I really didn’t want to know that! Another fondly remembered experience from the past that the young…Aug 30, 11:46
    • factchecker on The Shortest Day: “Perhaps that’s because that’s how democracy works in the 21st century. The reason we (the people of Scotland) were not…Aug 30, 11:43
    • Hatey McHateface on The Shortest Day: “Sure, Bob. If you tell us you don’t celebrate Christmas either, we’ll believe you. After all, that was never a…Aug 30, 11:41
    • Knuckle_Heid on The Shortest Day: ““….Good Governance in Scotland….” er, you what, Dave? As has long been documented on WoS, since 2015 your “Government” has…Aug 30, 11:38
    • Hatey McHateface on The Shortest Day: “Respect to you, Northy, for daring to utter some of the truths that most won’t. It remains but to add…Aug 30, 11:36
    • sam on The Shortest Day: “It can’t be said with any certainty what any independent country will look like as time passes. Within my considerable…Aug 30, 11:33
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