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Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 October 2024

British Peerages and Titles

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  The British House of Lords is the second biggest unelected second chamber in the world – after China! Britain’s archaic constitution of 16...
Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Ode to Joy

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  Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ was written in 1823 - and took Beethoven 30 years to write. This year is its 200 anniversary.  The last choral se...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Positives for a Free Scotland II

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Recently I’ve had a health issue, and had to have various procedures and scans to access the problem and now another wait. Then a pre-op. As...
Thursday, 31 August 2023

Declaration of Arbroath on display

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  The Declaration of Arbroath was on display at the national museums of Scotland in June 2023 ,  the first time in 18 years. It is a foundat...
Sunday, 30 April 2023

Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s

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    Tom Nairn why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s   Scotland’s greatest political theorist of the modern times.  Tom Nai...
Friday, 28 April 2023

Walter Scott’s fake nationalism and false myths of Scotland

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“pervasive, second-rate sentimentalist, associated with tartan nostalgia.”  For Walter Scott -  “the past is gone, beyond recall.” ….it evok...
Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Scotland’s Ties to Europe

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One of the main reasons for Scotland’s enlightened thought  - Reformation 1560 to the 1700s – was our close collaboration, integration and t...
Wednesday, 31 August 2022

Claim of Right

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    Is the principle that recognises that the people of Scotland have the sovereign right to determine the form of government best suited to...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Scotland must move forward with new ideas

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  Scotland must move forward with new ideas from the tired, old arguments of the social left vs extreme right capitalism, all controlled fro...

Scotland's Enlightenment Freedom of Thought & Speech

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  The  Scottish enlightenment  has been Scotland's biggest contribution to the world and there were two enlightenments,  according to Al...