Webcom Radio is Now Playing: The Heavy Hours - Take My Heart (I'll Take Yours Too)Though it might not seem like it today, I truly believe the events of the past week will stand the independence movement in good stead. The cause has been on hold for eight years now. Since November 2014 when Nicola Sturgeon was handed the leadership of the SNP and Yes Movement the lack of inertia Read more about The end of the road[…]
I am joined this week by Phil Boswell, Yvonne Ridley and Eva Comrie for our weekly Scottish political review programme. The furore of Adam Graham and the choice of where to house this convicted rapist is yet another avoidable banana skin our incompetent First Minister stepped on. Everyone else was, of course, not the guilty Read more about Through A Scottish Prism 29/01/23[…]
UK GOVERNMENT MUST END FORCED INSTALLATION OF PRE PAYMENT METERS, ABOLISH HIGHER STANDARD CHARGES AND INTRODUCE A SOCIAL TARIFF East Lothian MP and fair energy prices campaigner Kenny MacAskill has been granted an Urgent Question by the Speaker “to ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy if he will make a Read more about MACASKILL GRANTED URGENT QUESTION IN COMMONS ON SELF DISCONNECTION FROM POWER SOURCES[…]
Live from Noon every Sunday. This week I am joined by Eva, Phil and Yvonne. Also on the panel is John Moir, Advocate to give us the legal position of the Section 35 and the Scottish Government’s options and difficulties. We are also delighted to welcome Maggie Mellon, Social Work Consultant, formerly of Action Read more about Through A Scottish Prism 22/01/23[…]
“THIS IS NOT LEVELLING UP, ITS SHORING UP THE TORIES AND THE UNION” – MACASKILL “STICKING PLASTER WILL NOT COVER THE GAPING WOUND OF BREXIT” – HANVEY ALBA Westminster Leader Neale Hanvey MP and ALBA Depute Leader Kenny MacAskill MP have responded to the announcement today (Thursday) on the allocation of levelling up funds. In a statement Neale Read more about LEVELLING UP – ALBA REACTION[…]
Scotland Secretary Alister Jack, London’s man in Scotland and agent for the UK Government has announced that he is moving to block the controversial GRR Bill after taking legal advice. It is the first time that UK ministers have used a Section 35 order which stops a Scottish bill from becoming law. They have done Read more about Yir teas oot![…]
From Noon,Sunday. Now available on the website, YouTube, Twitter, Rumble. This week I am joined by Eva Comrie, Yvonne Ridley and Charlie Abel. The Coatbridge Cavalier is now in North Dakota and will be back with us next week. With Holyrood back in session, we had lots to talk about. We began with divine Read more about Through A Scottish Prism 15/01/23[…]
Colin Mackay of STV is to be congratulated. He asked the UK Prime Minister the question that our First Minister should have been asking since November 23rd, 2022. That was the day the Supreme Court in London ruled that The Scottish parliament cannot hold a second independence referendum without Westminster approval. We have at last Read more about Now we know![…]
From Noon Sunday, available on YouTube, Rumble, Twitter, Facebook, Anchor and of course www.barrheadboy.com. This is our first Sunday noon show of the year. It is great to be back in our regular spot. This week, Eva, Yvonne and Phil join me for an hour of debate, opinion and views. We begin our show with Read more about Through A Scottish Prism 08/01/23[…]
A Guest Post By Deirdre O’Neill It is becoming quite acceptable for certain sections of the left to declare that people like me – women who are ‘gender critical’ – should not be allowed in leftist or anarchist spaces. Leaving aside the arrogance and implicit authoritarianism of this claim, its lack of critical engagement Read more about Left censorship and exclusion against gender-critical women: a Marxist critique.[…]