Fridays Scottish Blogs

 

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http://indyref2.scot/

Indy ref two brings us to pieces today the first by Alan Knight a video with written comment comment on the subject of Ruth Davidson or as I like to think of the elusive Ruth Davidson. Unless of course it’s something that bigs her up.

The second piece is also a video this time of Alex Salmon’s new talk show.

http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles has two concise pieces today one on the times description of a modern day Conservative, the second piece concerning David Davidson’s idea that politics should not trump prosperity or something.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguin’s Republic also goes with the News Watch Scotland video covering the BBC’s protective embrace of Ruth Davidson.

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/

James Kelly at Scot goes pop references a Twitter spat between Leask of the Herald and it seems everyone who supports independence. I doubt Mr Leask will lower himself to read this but I think Mr Kelly gives good advice.

https://www.arcofprosperity.org/

Arc of prosperity looks at the nuts and bolts of minimum pricing how will the shops who sell the alcohol will react with their pricing policy.

https://iainmacwhirter.wordpress.com/

Iain McWhirter wonders if the Brexiteers are actually anarchists in this article remoulded from the Herald

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Caitlin Logan goes with the suspension from the party of SNP SMP Mark McDonald who resigned recently from the frontbench.

Robin McAlpine goes with hypocrisy and how difficult some people find it to toe the right and accepted line.

John Paul Clark has a piece on the homeless and what is unconditional love.

Caitlin Logan pops up again with a piece on bullying at North Lanarkshire Council.

And again Miss Logan has a piece on bullying in an Edinburgh private school.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Mike small takes a wee look at the Herald’s prize-giving day and notes that you can get a prize for criticising another prizewinner.

Mike again has a video up covering mountains and mountains of plastic generated by our Christmas excesses.

George Monbiot has a video about why the present government hates you.

The final piece is a review of photographer Martin Parr’s work on the clichés of Scotland.

https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/

The good news blog, Talking up Scotland, has a piece on Scotland being the most productive part of the UK outside of, yes you guessed it, London and the south.

A link to a landmark study which suggests Tory austerity is responsible for 120,000 deaths.

The third piece is a rather interesting look at how street names may affect how you view yourself. For instance anyone living in Union Square, how did you vote in the 2014 referendum?

Talking up Scotland final piece for today asks whether the Scottish Tories will try to steal the credit for overturning the ridiculous situation where the police and fire brigade in Scotland are the only ones in the UK expected to pay VAT.

Thursdays Scottish Blogs

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http://www.businessforscotland.com/

Business for Scotland has its regular weekly Scottish business buzz covering a new competition launched by virgin start-up for new start-up businesses.

News about ultrafast broadband arriving in Sunderland.

A piece about UK consumer price inflation and another about Edinburgh and Glasgow airports breaking records.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguin’s republic asks how it’s all going and decides it’s maybe not going quite so well as Theresa May would hope. As an added bonus he has a piece about Petula Clark who has a birthday, he is a big fan by all accounts.

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/

James Kelly at Scott goes pop delves into a new ICM poll to discover nothing but bad news for Labour and good news for the SNP.

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/

Wee Ginger dug asks what happened to the sovereignty the Brexiters were so desperate to return to Westminster.

https://scottovoce.wordpress.com/

Peter a bell at Scotto voce has two pieces up one bemoaning the fact that too many people don’t read the small print especially when it comes to the new minimum alcohol pricing which hopefully will be on the statute books soon.

In a good place his second piece argues that Nicholas Sturgeon has many options at her disposal when it comes to the second independence referendum.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

First article of three today from common space is by Linda Pearson who has a deep look into nuclear weapons.

Caitlin Logan writes about the recent UK Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Scottish government to go ahead after a five year battle with minimum alcohol pricing.

Caitlin second piece covers Labour’s investigation into Alex Rowley the interim leader of the Labour Party who has had to stand down amid allegations made by a former partner.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Bella has a piece by Kevin Williamson who in a previous life was an integral part of the team at Bella. This piece is an interview with Kurdish poet and activist be Bejan Matur.

This is followed by a piece on food boycotts.

A good piece from an Irishman Phil Mac Giolla Bhain on the Irish situation and that border the Westminster seems to think doesn’t exist.

A season in the new North covers all the events for your diary over the next wee while if you have an interest in what is happening in your country.

https://thoughtcontrolscotland.com/

Our final blog for today is thought control Scotland hosted by Prof John Robertson an covers four topics today.

Scotland’s airports and their record-breaking throughput.

Scotland unemployment beating the rest of the UK.

The Scottish government’s victory over the Scottish Whisky Association and the fight for minimum alcohol pricing.

Finally a piece about the drop in the number of shops closing albeit the closures are still ahead of the new starts.

Take the time to follow the links in these pieces as you can find some interesting publications that are not mainstream but contain a lot of good information.

Fridays Scottish blogs.

 

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http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles asks if the Brexit negotiations are making progress you may be able to guess his conclusion.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguin’s Republic touches on Alex Salmonds recent announcement that he will be having a show on RT and points out both those that have already been on the station and Nicola Sturgeon’s comments.

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/

James Kelly at Scott goes pop has delved into the 19 poll subsamples taken in Scotland in recent months and discovers the SNP are still in the lead. In the second piece he touches on the Alex Salmond TV show and highlights a Twitter correspondence with Nick, my truth is the truthiest truth Robinson.

http://www.lesleyriddoch.com/

Lesley Riddoch in this week’s podcast covers Priti Patel and the luck of the Mays, that’s Theresa May’s luck, the murky influence of some Tories in the Israel fiasco. She also discusses foot-and-mouth or at least Boris Johnson’s foot in Boris Johnson’s mouth and the consequences for ordinary folk. And Lesley finds time to touch on the Scottish independence convention or build conference as she prefers.

https://scottovoce.wordpress.com/

Peter a bell at Scotto voce pleads for more boring politics if only to shut up the mainstream media.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Loki has a piece in common space today, about his new book.

Sean Bell covers the first ministers upcoming address to the United Nations climate change conference.

Sean also covers the DWP response to the rape clause and tells us that the various charities involved are less than satisfied with the DWP’s response to their concerns.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Bella has only one piece up today by Antonia Uri about menstruation and the government’s trial in Aberdeen. It’s in Scots and well worth reading nice to see something good about the SNP’s policies on this issue in print.

Fridays Scottish Blogs

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https://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

Michael Greenwell at Scottish independent podcast has a short piece up with a hashtag insult royalty day. That could be fun. He also has the latest video from phantom power in the series of journeys to yes. Number 19 no less.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguin’s new Republic manages to have a pop at tax avoiders bricks it tears and empower Westminster governments all in 12 lines.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/

Wings over Scotland also has the latest journey to yes video up but he also has a video from Tom Holland who seems to think Scotland as part of his birthright.

http://www.gerryhassan.com/

Gerry Hassan has written a piece on the culture at Westminster are let you fight your way through it if you’re so inclined.

https://scottovoce.wordpress.com/

Scotto voce has Peter a bell’s piece chaos and corruption covering all the recent , chaos and corruption, and suggest that it’s a structural problem of the British state.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Common space has five pieces up today Robin McAlpine on the idea of a clean economy.

Sean Bell covers Andy Whiteman’s recent debate on short-term lets and the damage this form of housing rental can cause.

Patrick Harvey is call for the Scottish government to sideline companies who avoid tax is covered by yes you guessed it Sean Bell.

Caitlin Logan is an article detailing the reason Gordon McDonald will stand down from the corporate body to make room for a female MSP. Not before time you might think.

Caitlin also has a piece on the Scottish governments launch of a consultation to change the legislation presently in place to make it easier for trans people to change their documentation. At present it can be very difficult for trans people to get all the documentation gender aligned.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Mike small thanks the over 500 readers for supporting their crowdfunding effort.

John Warren covers the Priti Patel debacle from historic point of view, and how the Conservatives seem to have a habit of throwing up these rogue operators.

Mike finishes today’s Bella offerings with a review of wind resistance presently showing at the Lyceum Theatre.

Thursdays Scottish Blogs

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http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles gives us a wee clip from the Guardian just to brighten up our day and perhaps make us think on the pitfalls of holidaying abroad.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguin’s new Republic does a compare and contrast piece on our political class. Depending on where in the country you are you could read this and weep or cry for joy.

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/

Wee Ginger dug goes bat shit crazy today, after having told us yesterday he wouldn’t be blogging as much what does he go and do, gives us two articles today. One on the class distinction of’s wary words and another on the Tories latest cluster F, they told us about their broad shoulders but not about their wonderful holiday adventures.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Common space covers Priti Patel’s journey to oblivion, from Jade Saab an article on Britain’s relationship with Israel, Ben Simmons asks could a basic income be the answer to the future pension problems.

Were going to broadcast a piece today that covers a discussion in Canada between the various political parties about basic income. Canada are running a pilot scheme at the moment.

A big piece from common weal about what the Scottish government could do to crack down on tax avoidance.

Sean Bell has an article covering new figures just released about the benefits EU citizens bring to Scotland.

Sean also has a piece about Nicholas Sturgeon signing a pledge in support of a nuclear weapons ban and gives us the detail of that pledge.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Jonathon Shafi gives us a list of the crumbling edifice of neoliberalism no reasons to be cheerful in this list.

Alistair Stewart writes about the strange rise of Moggmentum, and asks why would we want a return to the 1800s under the stewardship of Jacob Rees Mogg. He also mentions an interview Mogg did with Ali G so we thought we’d tag the audio onto the end of our blog report today just to give Mr Mogg the chance to fly his true colours.

Wednesday Scottish blogs eighth of November 2017.

 

 

http://www.businessforscotland.com/

Gordon McIntyre Kemp takes no prisoners in his précis of Gordon Brown’s book or maybe more accurately Gordon Brown’s rewriting of history.

https://wildernessofpeace.wordpress.com/

Wilderness of peace has his latest article up covering the dark side of Brexit and the EU long read but interesting ideas.

http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles quotes the times as Boris fiddles and Patel hides and everyone basks in the Westminster scandal inferno.

https://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

Michael Greenwell’s Scottish independence podcast gives us our Niorm Chomsky video foretelling the future?

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguins new Republic asks why do we pay David Davies..

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/

James Kelly’s Scott goes pop piece points out to Gary Robertson that if you have access to all the information it’s maybe a good idea to use it before you go tweeting nonsense.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/

Stuart Campbell has a delve into Gordon Brown’s book with unsurprising results.

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/

Wee Ginger dug fights back giving Tom Gallagher a taste of his own medicine. Prof Gallagher seems less academic and more epidemic as the days pass.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/

Murray updates us on his libel case and the news is good.

https://scottovoce.wordpress.com/

Peter a bell at Scotto voce reminds us that the Paradise papers fiasco is becoming an annual event and suggest that power pollutes. Are we blaming the wrong celebrities here?

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Three pieces in common space today one covering Nicholas Sturgeon’s apology for the historic injustice against the gay community.

A piece on the new appointment as childcare Minister of Marie Todd.

The final article covers the LGBTI charities launch to support young trans-people in schools.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Mike small runs through the ever-growing list of the present Tory governments woes and a piece entitled good morning Britain.

We then have a video of Aamer Rahman using humour to shoot hypocrisy down in flames.

This is followed by Twitter feed update on the happenings in Brussels from Jonathan lis.

Katie Hopkins has a book out just in time for Christmas and Otto English explains it’s only one in a long line of right wing diatribes now available to ignore.

Football next Mike small has a quick shimmy through a new fans evaluation of the Scottish game and it doesn’t look as though they are particularly supportive of the top men running the game.

Mike finishes off today’s articles with an explanation of why he needs your support for a Gaelic language project.

 

And that folks is your Scottish blog Roundup for Wednesday as ever there are links@ayerightradio.wordpress.com and if we are missing any blogs you enjoy send us a link to them at aye right radio@gmail.com. Enjoy today’s reads.

Tuesdays Scottish blogs seventh of November 2017.

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http://indyref2.scot/

Peter a bell over at Indyref2 treats us to a critique of the Scottish independence convention meeting at the Usher Hall. Peter pulls no punches.

http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles has a video.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguins new republic treats us to some of the better protest signs of Trump’s recent tour.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/

Wings over Scotland tears the daily mail a new one in his inimitable style.

https://moriduraalt.blogspot.com/

Peter Curran over at Moradura is getting pretty sick of the nonsense talked about sacking MPs and so gives us a breakdown on why basically nobody gets sacked as an MP.

https://scottovoce.wordpress.com/

Why do we have to fight for brand Scotland? Scotto voice tells us in no uncertain terms in this article.

http://www.ericjoyce.co.uk/blog/

Eric Joyce over at from No to Yes suggest that Boris Johnson’s presumed gaffe concerning Mrs Ratcliffe in Iran may not in fact be a straightforward mistake. The problem is it’s Boris and we expect him to do stupid things.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Common space has three new articles up today starting with Caitlin Logans piece on calls for accountability over the illegal Iraq war.

The second piece by John Paul Clark picks up on the great work done by food banks and those that volunteer and donate to them.

Caitlin Logan has a second piece today on the sexual harassment issue both at Holyrood and Westminster.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Mike small writes about the Paradise papers recently released much to the upset of our own royalty.

The second piece by Mike small covers a photography exhibition by Frank McElhinne.

Again Mike has a wee call for funding to help fight fake news.

Alistair Heather takes on the Scottish branding issue in an article entitled the saltire the Scots an the siller. Written in Scots.

Monday’s Blogs 6th Novemeber 2017

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https://wildernessofpeace.wordpress.com/

Wilderness of peace asks what was the snap general election really all about and why the yes movement has to be vigilant

http://blog.independencelive.net/

the independence live blog keeps us up to date with what’s happening with the Catalan government in exile in Denmark.

http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles brings us a tale of Betty in London savings dilemmas.

https://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

Michael Greenwell across at the Scottish independence podcasts decides to keep stone on the comments front but points out a few interesting facts about a tweet from age Scotland that appeared yesterday.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Mungo in the new Republic has a quick rundown of all the sleaze on the go at the moment, sexual, financial and well some just plain predictable.

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/

James Kelly over at Scott goes pop looks back to the future and ties it very neatly to the goings-on at the top of the EU hierarchy at the moment. Oh and he was on the radio as well.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/

wings over Scotland highlights the problem some Unionists have with supporting democracy.

https://weegingerdug.wordpress.com/

Wee Ginger dug apologises for not blogging as often as he once could and then gives us our diary breakdown of why. Handy if you would like to go and hear him speak because he seems to sell out his meetings rather quickly these days.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Bella has a piece with details of the political prisoners held in Spanish jails from Catalonia and asks for you to give your support and solidarity.

Bella second piece covers gender equality and as a call from Sophie Walker to use your vote to support equality.

Stephen Bullock asks what’s the worst thing about Brexit? You may be surprised by his answer but he makes a powerful argument for it being our constitutional standards.

Scottish Blogs 5th November 2017

 

http://holyroodchronicles.blogspot.co.uk/

Holyrood chronicles has two snippets one about the spy in your pocket and another about the ongoing shenanigans at Westminster.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Munguins new Republic has his soppy Sunday photo collection, what’s he trying to hide there is a squirrel in amongst the photographs.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/

Wings over Scotland has Chris Cairns latest cartoon.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Common space was at the Scottish independence convention yesterday and has taken the temperature of the yes movement through a series of interviews with the grassroots.

 

Scottish Blogs 4th November 2017

 

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http://indyref2.scot/

Peter a bell across at Indyref2 rips into the controversy surrounding the marketing of Scottish produce as British and reminds us you don’t need to meet the darkened room to take part in a conspiracy.

https://michaelgreenwell.wordpress.com/

Michael Greenwell across at Scottish independent podcast gives us the leading contenders for the insult Trump competition.

https://munguin.wordpress.com/

Meanwhile across at Munguins new Republic we are treated to an eye watering display of memes covering the hypocrisy and the rebranding of Scotland produce.

Followed by a video starring fluffy Mundell dismissing all questions from the northern colonies representatives.

http://scotgoespop.blogspot.co.uk/

James Kelly at Scot goes pop informs us of the dangers of removing the whip from even the naughtiest of MP.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/

Wings over Scotland in a piece entitled hurray for the Jock shirts.

It runs through a collection of the extreme public views expressed by all those guys who as young socialist revolutionaries must have sat about plotting the new constitution they would introduce, when in power, to ensure the trampling of democracy.

https://www.commonspace.scot/

Common space’s lead by Sean Bell covers the jailing of pro-independence politicians in Spain and looks at the strategy for the independent side in the upcoming elections on 21st December.

Common space also gives Judy Wilkinson, space to discuss the future for allotments around Scotland the good they bring and asks how effective the community empowerment act will be in reality.

http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/

Bella continues its collaboration with the National and its latest magazine number nine is out today buy your copy of the national to get it.

Mike small contributes to Bella today with a piece about the new Astroturf outfit ‘These islands’. Pointing out much of what has been said by their members today seems not to chime with what they’re trying to claim for Britishness.

In a piece entitled rebellion against nationalism, this is an opinion piece. The view from the left is discussed after a brief look at Spanish nationalism, something we are beginning to see more of from the British side of the Scottish independence argument.

Next up a video celebrating the coming dark nights.

The final new article today covers Scots trad podcast, a podcast around Scottish traditional music, this podcast covers the top 20 albums in this genre released this year.