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Showing posts with label nation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nation. Show all posts
Wednesday, 23 April 2025

Scotland’s Lost Mandates

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  Quebec often comes up, even the newly formed UK Supreme court comparing our ancient Scotland nation to the Canadian state.    If you look ...
Saturday, 30 September 2023

SONGS make a Nation

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The Proclaimers And the poetry and art. Since the 60s Scots have been singing in their own Scots and Gaelic voices – first with Flower of Sc...
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...

Scottish Nationalism for a Progressive modern state

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It’s a strange thing, I’ve been reading Tom Nairn ‘s excellent book the Break up of Britain (1977) and he makes many profound insights into ...
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...
Saturday, 31 December 2022

Dependency Supporters

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Choice between Scotland’s independent sovereignty and the politics of DEPENDENCY   Language really matters. I agree with the Wee Ginger Dog ...
Friday, 30 September 2022

Ukraines Fight to survive: The Freedom Orchestra

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  The Freedom Orchestra -   Ukraines Fight to survive   Putin’s aim is to not only annex, but to erase Ukraine’s unique and distinctive cult...
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

Saving the Scots Language

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Iona Fyfe There’s the issues of Russia’s recent imperialism invasion of Ukraine, is this cultural genocide or fear of the economic successes...
Tuesday, 12 October 2021

Politics today is complex

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I read that Norway has nine political parties – (re a letter National). This is complex and there are online questionnaires listing say 30 o...
Sunday, 29 September 2019

Is Scotland Ready?

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Irish Times writer Fintan O’Toole  is an excellent, creative thinker and I enjoyed his essays, in the Sunday National. He writes that we ...