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    • Dunx on The Hills Of Far Away: “I think most green voters can get to 12 using their fingers alone.May 13, 13:21
    • Northcode on The Hills Of Far Away: “Ma fowk, the Picts, thank ye , Sam, fir yon link whit ye hiv brung tae us in this place.…May 13, 12:47
    • Sven on The Hills Of Far Away: “Jings, and here was me sitting back with a strongly brewed ‘wet’ thoroughly enjoying watching the Household Brigade doing what…May 13, 12:24
    • sam on The Hills Of Far Away: “Wes Streeting leaving his post won’t be an “unreported removal” though he knows all about unreported removals. “Thank you for…May 13, 12:23
    • Northcode on The Hills Of Far Away: “Since being introduced to postcolonial theory by Alf Baird in this place a couple or so years ago I have…May 13, 12:14
    • Cynicus on The Hills Of Far Away: ““ What century is this?” ======= Maybe you should email that question to Peter Mandelson protégé, Wes Streeting. Beth Rigby…May 13, 11:54
    • TURABDIN on The Hills Of Far Away: “STATE OPENING OF «PARLIAMENT»…..boom, boom, boom…. ruritanian & mega super hyper creepy….mothballs too. What century is this?May 13, 11:33
    • agentx on The Hills Of Far Away: “Operation Branchform has been so weird I am not going to try to guess what will happen at Court.May 13, 11:31
    • Geri on The Hills Of Far Away: “Cause maybe 67,877 ppl didn’t vote Green at all. But just to check, every vote should be traced to its…May 13, 11:30
    • robertkknight on The Hills Of Far Away: “I wonder how many of the 67,877 people who voted Green on the list can count above 10 without taking…May 13, 11:23
    • Cynicus on The Hills Of Far Away: “sam says: “Think you might like this……“ =========== Thanks for that excellent link. All the better fir being in high…May 13, 11:11
    • Geri on The Hills Of Far Away: “I dunno why they sit there still playing this pantomime. It’s only daily reinforcement they’re a clown & provides that…May 13, 11:07
    • Sven on The Hills Of Far Away: “What would youbelieve are the chances of a plea in bar of trial to reduced charge/charges, agent ? And so…May 13, 11:07
    • agentx on The Hills Of Far Away: “I wonder how many of the 67,877 people who voted Green on the list actually knew that Q Manivannan was…May 13, 11:01
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on And Nothing Happened Forever: “And here (finally) are some GAELIC LOTHIAN NAMES (from Iain Taylor’s ‘The Placenames of Scotland’ Revised and updated, Birlinn, 2022)…May 13, 11:00
    • agentx on The Hills Of Far Away: “Don’t forget Murrell is due to appear at Edinburgh High Court on 25 May 2026.May 13, 10:52
    • Geri on The Hills Of Far Away: “It seems my reply went to the wrong bit..lol.. Anyhoo… This was something passed by the Holyrood administration, not Westminster.…May 13, 10:51
    • sam on The Hills Of Far Away: “This is a comment by SeamusM to a blog post on Slugger O’Toole. “It is probably more accurate to describe…May 13, 10:48
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Apologies for posting above Glasgow list twice. Here are some GAELIC FIFE names (from Iain Taylor’s book ‘Place-names of Scotland’)…May 13, 10:45
    • Geri on The Hills Of Far Away: “This was something passed by the Holyrood administration, not Westminster. So, if I’ve got this right, that means… Someone has…May 13, 10:34
    • willie on The Hills Of Far Away: “Looks like the SNP intervention in the Commons today is going to be chucked out. Apparently, according to one senior…May 13, 10:28
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Auchenshuggle > Achadh an t-Seagail (Field of Rye) Cathkin > Coitcheann (Common Grazing) Cessnock > Seasganach (Sedge-Place) Clyde > Cluaidh…May 13, 09:39
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on And Nothing Happened Forever: “Auchenshuggle > Achadh an t-Seagail (Field of Rye) Cathkin > Coitcheann (Common Grazing) Cessnock > Seasganach (Sedge-Place) Clyde > Cluaidh…May 13, 09:37
    • Willie on The Hills Of Far Away: “Well Hatey if you have background as to what may be likely to emerge is our man compromised. Plenty of…May 13, 07:33
    • Captain Caveman on The Hills Of Far Away: “Sounds like a sensible suggestion!May 13, 07:33
    • Debatable Lands on The Hills Of Far Away: “Scots, English, Irish and Welsh need to come together in one important project, which is to fix politics and governance…May 13, 06:08
    • Mark Beggan on The Hills Of Far Away: “Well we’ve had King Kubala of the Forest so Prince Pirrianha of the Pansys seems a natural step in post-colonial…May 13, 05:39
    • Young Lochinvar on The Hills Of Far Away: “Does Mannivanan actually translate to “man in a white van”? Lots of issues going on here as yet lacking discussion..…May 13, 01:47
    • Confused on The Hills Of Far Away: “Not long a guy from Bellshill won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. I think his trajectory was Strathclyde, Princeton.May 13, 01:06
    • Young Lochinvar on And Nothing Happened Forever: “T Correct! Remembering of course that the men of the “old north” actually referred to central Scotland.. It’s good to…May 13, 01:04
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