As rich and diverse as Scottish political blogging is, I was hoping I would get to avoid the usual bunfights in this week’s edition of the Roundup particularly as I’ve managed to get through a particularly busy week without having the faintest clue what was going on. I only heard about Johann Lamont’s attack on […]
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September 2012
Subjective truth, Singing politicians and Scantily-clad bodies
Picking up the baton for this Round-up malarky is always a bit nerve wracking. I’m never sure quite what to focus on, quite what you all enjoy reading and if my choices will interest you because you are not my readers, you are, well actually I don’t know who you are! I worry that I […]
Batgirl was a Librarian
School this week saw a wonderful query form a pupil. During a discussion on the Scottish Independence debate one pupil asked; “If we get Independence does that mean we’ll be separated by water?†Speaking of Independence Gerry Hassan this week makes a plea for the pro-unionist supporters to make a decent argument of how Britain will […]
Outrage and woodlice
I enjoy a challenge. I enjoy a giant squishy chocolate cake too, but I haven’t got one of those at the moment, so I’ll just need to focus on the challenge. Which is this: to get from woodlice to the independence referendum in under ten paragraphs. Never let it be said that nominations to the […]
Politics, paralympics, piping and produce
It’s been the last week of the parliamentary recess and already the politicians are jockeying for position. You wouldn’t think anything other than the independence referendum was happening in Scotland. Nicola Prigg puts the case for a second question. Think. It’s Free says that the moderate majority can drown out the internet trolls on either […]