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    • sam on Too Tight To Mention: “From Tom Devine. ““One of my main arguments is that the scale of land loss was greater in lowland Scotland…Jul 7, 10:09
    • sam on Too Tight To Mention: “Don’t overlook the influence of almost all of the media which attributes the poor health and poverty of Scots to…Jul 7, 09:42
    • sam on Too Tight To Mention: “Yep, thanks for reminding me.Jul 7, 09:39
    • Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: “You are doing the colonizer’s work, Andrew with your divide and rule rant.Jul 7, 09:38
    • 100%Yes on Too Tight To Mention: “Was the loan to the SNP in order to prevent him having to pay out on legal cost, for me…Jul 7, 09:02
    • Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “Sorry Andrew Meant to address your last point. As a resident of unfashionable former industrial Lanarkshire with family links over…Jul 7, 04:12
    • Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “Andrew R @ 12.53 Bit partial in your reading of history there Andrew, somewhat post ‘45 influenced.. Prior to that…Jul 7, 03:57
    • Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “Interesting post. Incidentally the “Lowland” clearances took place over 100 years earlier, those on the border even earlier. Just didn’t…Jul 7, 03:35
    • AndrewR on Too Tight To Mention: “The Southern Scots were a part of the oppression of the Northern Scots, the destruction of the northern culture, language,…Jul 7, 00:53
    • Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: ““We can’t prevent poverty being imposed upon us.” Yes sam, the ‘objective of colonialism is to widen inequality’; which is…Jul 6, 22:21
    • Alf Baird on Too Tight To Mention: “Yes Sarah, the Liberate Scotland strategy offering a single unity candidate per constituency and a single policy (i.e. an independence…Jul 6, 22:07
    • Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “We can’t prevent poverty being imposed upon us. Actually, we could if “we” as a people chose to do so…Jul 6, 22:01
    • sam on Too Tight To Mention: ““Sufficient self-government refers to a level of autonomy where a territory can effectively manage its own affairs without external control,…Jul 6, 21:35
    • sam on Too Tight To Mention: “Iain MacKinnon’s work explores the concept of domestic colonization in Scotland, particularly focusing on the Highland Clearances and the cultural…Jul 6, 21:22
    • Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “Or alternatively if more people in the movement who were disgusted with the milquetoast devolutionists in the SNP had gotten…Jul 6, 21:13
    • sarah on Too Tight To Mention: “I hope that spines are shivering in SNP leadership’s clique today. May Kenny Macaskill win a seat in 2026 so…Jul 6, 20:46
    • Andy Ellis on The Con Merchant: “@Alf 6.26 pm Your analysis of the language issue is – as the comments from many people more knowledgeable and…Jul 6, 20:15
    • sarah on Too Tight To Mention: “Thank you, auld highlander!Jul 6, 18:28
    • Alf Baird on The Con Merchant: “Andy, depriving ‘a people’ of their language (and resources, history, culture etc) is a violation of human rights. It is…Jul 6, 18:26
    • auld highlander on Too Tight To Mention: “Here you go. Plus the call for a public enquiry. https://web.archive.org/web/20250706164457/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25290257.albas-kenny-macaskill-says-will-never-forgive-sturgeon/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250706165351/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25292667.albas-kenny-macaskill-calls-alex-salmond-public-inquiry/Jul 6, 18:02
    • sarah on Too Tight To Mention: “O/T Could someone please post an archived link to the Sunday Herald interview with Kenny MacAskill “I will not forgive…Jul 6, 17:29
    • agent x on Too Tight To Mention: “Northcode says: “I even have the S530 DNA marker to prove it.” ————————————————– Did the Police take your DNA for…Jul 6, 17:04
    • Sven on Too Tight To Mention: “Gosh, woe (& confuddlement) is me. First broad Scots. Then Brythonic. Now P-Celtic trace language. How on earth is a…Jul 6, 16:59
    • Northcode on Too Tight To Mention: “You might be on to something there, Confused.Jul 6, 16:57
    • Northcode on Too Tight To Mention: ““St Columba (originally from Ireland) could not communicate with the Picts” I didn’t know that, Young Lochinvar, but it makes…Jul 6, 16:42
    • Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “The farce of the creation of the Church of England is that Henry Tudor 8 reaffirmed his Catholic beliefs on…Jul 6, 16:40
    • Northcode on Too Tight To Mention: ““I am descended of the Danaans.” I hadn’t noticed my misspelling of ‘Danann’ so the opportunity to rectify my error…Jul 6, 16:36
    • Andy Ellis on Too Tight To Mention: “I always thought the usual suspects were a bunch of space cadets. From the mouths of babes….Jul 6, 16:28
    • sarah on Too Tight To Mention: “The SNP should be adopting the Manifesto for Independence and then we wouldn’t need to be signing it! The SNP…Jul 6, 16:21
    • Young Lochinvar on Too Tight To Mention: “Interesting post NC. In line with what you have said, St Columba (originally from Ireland) could not communicate with the…Jul 6, 16:21
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