Month: September 2022
7 reasons Scots should be concerned by Liz Truss’ energy policy
The UK government is expected to announce a cap on energy bills for businesses today, but there is likely to be a delay before the details are clear. What IS becoming clear is the direction of Liz Truss’ general energy policy. Richer households will benefit more than poorer ones from the plans. Businesses have been […] Source
Is it safe yet?
New wind farm set to provide clean electricity to 21,000 homes
‘Emotional’ Gordonstoun pupils watch Queen’s funeral from King Charles’ former dorm
‘We have lost a Gordonstoun mum and a Gordonstoun grandmother’
Choir at Pluscarden Abbey to celebrate 40th anniversary
The Queue and the Vigil
The spectacle of The Queue, snaking its way through London like a massive gated airport system was an impressive one. People would queue in line for ten to twelve hours or more before spying the coffin lying in state at Westminster Hall. This weird event – and it’s surround media, which some have dubbed ‘coffin […] Source
Strength Through Unity – Unity Through Faith
Some of the more wildly optimistic delusions of British nationalists are that what we are witnessing is a ‘new nation being forged’ and that the experience of dazed supplicants shuffling through Westminster Hall will somehow wipe-away the social, constitutional and ecological crisis that faces us all. This delusion is perhaps understandable. The actual reasons for […] Source
See the Scottish restaurants named in the top 100 by the National Restaurant Awards
Where do you get the name from Willy?
The much-repeated narrative about the collective hysteria we are being forced to live through is that this ‘national moment’ is inevitably forging a new ‘United Kingdom’ as the ‘whole country’ experiences collective grief and a unifying process that will slay any movements of self-determination in Scotland, Ireland or Wales. But as I have said elsewhere […] Source