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    • Red on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: ““The SNP has always had a hawkish faction,” That’s a polite way of saying “MI5 bumboys”Sep 21, 18:17
    • Bilbo on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “The UK in the worldwide top ten of defence budgets but as a state, it can’t even maintain it’s borders.…Sep 21, 18:10
    • Bilbo on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “I see the State asset said she had turned down an offer to go onto Dancing on Ice TV show.…Sep 21, 18:07
    • Red on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Sounds like MMT, the Sovereign Citizen theory of economics. There’s a finite amount of resources they can seize. An infinite…Sep 21, 17:54
    • Spartan 117 on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Not according to the Fabians who are rife across the major political parties, including those that are purportedly “Conservative”. The…Sep 21, 17:43
    • Minceheid on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Not everything is about Thatcher, unless you’re the early ’90s Ben Elton whose repertoire largely consisted of his shouting “Fatcher!”…Sep 21, 17:14
    • TURABDIN on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Having moved to London she will be concerned about the possibility of her new home being nuked. All this lends…Sep 21, 16:17
    • Adrian on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Government funds are not finiteSep 21, 16:04
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “TRADE UNIONS ‘PUT WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN JEOPARDY’ BY SUPPORTING GENDER ID The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has committed its 5.3…Sep 21, 15:49
    • Rob on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “The first responsibility of any government is defence of the realm. This is whether it is Scotland, the UK or…Sep 21, 15:31
    • Nancy Somerville on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “I note that she says she hopes that the show “..sparks a debate about whether the country is properly prepared.”…Sep 21, 14:42
    • sam on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Thanks Northcode, A constitution is a set of principles and rules that outlines how a country is organised and governed,…Sep 21, 14:40
    • Jacqueline on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Thatcher doesn’t get a look in. What an evil piece. I sincerely hope that Paul gets to the truth and…Sep 21, 14:32
    • Spartan 117 on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “More brilliant journalism from Stu, cutting through the keech in the MSM and delivering the hard facts on multiple fronts.…Sep 21, 14:27
    • Hatey McHateface on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: ““the USSR eventually won that battle” Helped by enormous gifts of material and money from the Yanks. Plus a second…Sep 21, 14:17
    • robertkknight on His Majesty’s Loyal Sabre: “Agent Sturgeon would certainly be best placed to defend mother England from the Orcs. Wouldn’t take much to perfect the…Sep 21, 14:05
    • sam on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Thanks Northcode, A constitution is a set of principles and rules that outlines how a country is organised and governed,…Sep 21, 14:01
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““You’ve taken that one too far” The hunt for a migrant on an Orkney island and how the searchers will…Sep 21, 13:48
    • Mark Beggan on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “That’s just a reflective response from the horses nervous system. It’s dead.Sep 21, 13:18
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Something to remember the next time somebody starts to tell you that an Independent Scotland could be a lot like…Sep 21, 13:03
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Of course, using Confused’s own logic, allowing “the Anglos” to cash in big on The Falkland’s mucho largesse would wean…Sep 21, 12:18
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: ““well established and understood” Ha! I’d wager £100 that hardly any Scot knows of your post colonial boys, Alf. 20%…Sep 21, 12:07
    • Confused on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “ANGLO PHILANTHROPY is jawdropping in its chutzpah : down the bottom – https://archive.ph/efFiS AT THE MOMENT, the deal is that…Sep 21, 11:32
    • Alf Baird on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Nice try, Northcode, but it is well established and understood that “colonialism only ends with the removal of the colonizer”…Sep 21, 11:30
    • Northcode on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “BTL looked clinically dead a couple of hours ago. Now it’s twitching again. Interesting shift.Sep 21, 10:17
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “A fascinating article describing life in the place that has given us so much of what constitutes the modern world,…Sep 21, 09:34
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Can I just clarify that the above Vimeo link and YouTube link are to two different discussions.Sep 21, 09:33
    • diabloandco on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “Fearghas, thank you , much enjoyed!Sep 21, 09:03
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “The majority of Scots cared about their religion back then, Mark. Only a declining minority care today. Within the burgeoning…Sep 21, 08:46
    • Hatey McHateface on A Thousand Islands In The Sea: “It’s a simple fact, discoverable by thought alone, that no revolution can ever be finished. It’s at the moment that…Sep 21, 08:29
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