Author: Speymouth

Celebrating John Maclean at Celtic Connections

Speymouth January 21, 2024

A century has now passed since the death of “great John Maclean” of pneumonia, aged just 44. The Marxist schoolteacher’s health had been greatly weakened by force-feeding in Peterhead prison, where he was jailed for opposing the First World War. He used the opportunity of a speech from the dock at the High Court to […] Source

An Open Letter to Ian Maxwell from the Scottish Football Supporters Association

Speymouth January 20, 2024

This from the SFSA is an attempt to inject some much needed independent scrutiny, measures to ensure transparency and accessibility, into the Scottish game. The SFSA are disappointed but not surprised by the misinformation that was put in the public domain by the SFA at this recent meeting at Holyrood. https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/health-social-care-and-sport-committee-december-19-2023 ( scroll to 10.40) […] Source

Labour’s betrayal of Scotland

Speymouth January 18, 2024

On Wednesday Anas Sarwar, the branch office manager of Labour’s Scottish accounting unit tweeted: “Every vote matters – and at the next General Election a vote for Scottish Labour is a vote to put Scotland’s voice at the heart of government.” However less than 24 hours previously Labour MPs had voted…

One Tree Falling

Speymouth January 15, 2024

When the times darken will there be singing even then? There will be singing even then. Of how the times darken. The quote is a translation by Edwin Morgan from Bertolt Brecht’s Svendborg Poems, published in 1939 while Brecht was living in exile in Denmark, having fled from Nazi Germany. It’s a quote I often […] Source