Category Archives: Human Rights

Now comes the Winter of our Discontent

Posted on September 9, 2017 by auldacquaintance

From the Nightmares of Summer to the Winter of our discontent. How short a time it seems since early summer, and how much has happened since. To begin with we had the vote and the announcement in the Scottish Parliament … Continue reading →

Posted in #Scotref, Brexit, Change, Council Elections, EU, Europe, General Election, Human Rights, independence, Manifesto, Nicola Sturgeon, politics, scotland, Theresa May, YES, YES2 | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

To Live in the early days of a Better Nation

Posted on September 7, 2017 by auldacquaintance

The plan for government introduced by the First Minister yesterday caught everybody by surprise, both her detractors and her supporters. Nobody but nobody was expecting it,and it caught everyone on the hop with its vision, its breadth of intent, its … Continue reading →

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My Fight

Posted on August 15, 2017 by auldacquaintance

WARNING…… What Follows is extremely long and massively contentious “By far the greatest bulk of the political ‘education,’ which in this case one may rightly define with the word ” propaganda,’ is the work of the press. It is the … Continue reading →

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I Defend My Right To Be Offended

Posted on July 30, 2017 by auldacquaintance

You really couldn’t make it up, well actually you could, but it wouldn’t be half as much fun as the the real thing. It’s an absolute twitter storm gone completely out of control which has now spread out into the … Continue reading →

Posted in #Scotref, Brexit, freedom, General Election, Human Rights, independence, politics, scotland, Twitter, Wings over Scotland, YES, YES2 | Tagged , , , , | 17 Comments

Brexit v Independence

Posted on April 20, 2017 by auldacquaintance

The Control freakery of Theresa May seems to know no bounds. First she wanted control of parliament so that parliament would not be able to debate anything to do with her Brexit Bill…. She was challenged and lost in the … Continue reading →

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I am a Scots Nationalist

Posted on October 17, 2016 by auldacquaintance

I am Scottish and proud to be Scottish. I believe in Scotland and in my fellow Scots wherever they may happen to be in the world. I am also a Scottish Nationalist, or should I say a Scottish Internationalist? The … Continue reading →

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The Hard Brexit Exit

Posted on October 10, 2016 by auldacquaintance

As we await the beginnings of the hard brexit exit that the Tories seem hell bent on pursuing with the Article 50 sign off in around late March according to Theresa May. I have been taking some time to consider … Continue reading →

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Naming and Shaming

Posted on July 30, 2016 by auldacquaintance

Oscar Wilde wrote: “In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an improvement certainly. But still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralizing. Somebody — was it Burke? — called journalism the fourth … Continue reading →

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Freedom held hostage by the State

Posted on May 17, 2016 by auldacquaintance

As a follow on to ” An Alien in a Strange Land”, I continue the story here. To recap, after having a perfectly normal and civilized conversation in the driveway of the Brittania Hotel in Stockport with three people from … Continue reading →

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An Alien in a strange land

Posted on May 17, 2016 by auldacquaintance

Imagine for one moment, that you are having a perfectly normal conversation with 3 strangers you have never met before. There is nothing controversial being said,there is no argument or raising of voices above normal conversation level. It is all … Continue reading →

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