Webcom Radio is Now Playing: The Courteeners - Finest HourWith thanks to Wings Over Scotland for allowing me to repost this today. Flying with Wings Posted on September 18, 2019 by Gavin Barrie As the mandate for a second independence referendum currently sits gathering dust in the SNP vaults, discussion has started on ways to generate some movement. One of these has been Read more about Flying with Wings[…]
One of the hacks for the foreign owned press in Scotland the other day asked this question. ‘Is it OK to talk about SNP civil war yet?’ He, of course, was click baiting for attention. His tweets are invariably thus, he tends to have more people read his tweets than the drivel in his weekly Read more about It Is All About Priorities.[…]
For some time now, the SNP has been staggering from one self-inflicted disaster to the next. People, myself included keep asking ‘how did this happen?’ How did the Party that Nicola Sturgeon inherited in November 2014 become so accident prone and riven by so much division in such a short space of time? The Read more about The Strategist & The Apprentice[…]
I had a really strange, stressful and enlightening weekend because of one single tweet and Facebook Post. Someone, not me had taken the latest Survation Opinion Poll on Holyrood voting intentions and ran it through a seat calculator. It was very interesting what the projections revealed. It shows that the SNP wins a majority in Read more about SNP ISP & Me.[…]
A few days ago Wings Over Scotland produced an excellent piece on new media. In this article Stu Campbell highlighted that since 2014 many of those that had contributed to the vibrant scene had long since ceased to exist. There was, of course, some chest beating. He clearly demonstrated that without even trying he is Read more about Talk To Us![…]
It has been trailed in the Sunday newspapers and on English TV. The Tory Party have the destruction of devolution in their sights. Tories throughout their history have always opposed every beneficial change in society. They are Conservatives with a capital C, no small c for them. When the Chartists first appeared the Tories objected Read more about Fight or Flee?[…]
I was still at school when I first joined the SNP in 1968. Then the HQ was in Elmbank Street, Glasgow. I didn’t renew it the following year, records, cafes, and single cigarettes seemed a better investment for a teenager. I became active for the Party in the 1970s. I could take up an entire Read more about Time To Take, Not To Wait![…]
In my working career I worked in the Web Hosting business. Nowadays it seems everyone has something hosted, usually cloud based. I was in the vanguard of the industry which of course, did not come into being till the Internet arrived in the late 1990s. Cloud at that time just didn’t exist. My job was Read more about What if……[…]
Yesterday I had some extraordinary things happen to me on this site. I had a record day of unique visitors 7,446. Quite remarkable and I would like to have my appreciation noted. My last blog is the most read (12311) I have had in over three years of being a blogger. I am flattered that Read more about The ISP, The List & Holyrood[…]
Without any doubt the SNP Debate and policy change on the Party’s NATO stance in 2012 stands out as arguably the best ever Conference Debate of any party in UK. The vote was pretty close and the debate fierce. It is a subject that has very strong views by all sides. The motion debated and Read more about GRA & The Bullies[…]