by Sara Salyers | Aug 2, 2023 | Blog, General
I’m going to an AGM! Ok, not the most exciting thing that you might say to anyone but hey, this was a Salvo AGM and the most exciting AGM that I would ever go to! It was in Stirling, so I boarded the bus from Edinburgh early on Sunday morning, clutching my AGM pass....
by Sara Salyers | May 12, 2023 | Blog
In the December 1984 issue of the Scots Magazine, an article appeared entitled ‘Where is the Real Stone’. It electrified nationalists across Scotland. The author was Archie, ‘A C’, McKerracher, FSA, whose 2001 obituary in the Herald described him as a, “Scot – author,...
by Sara Salyers | Apr 14, 2023 | Blog
Gaslighting. Force your victim to swallow the opposite of the truth, then teach your victim to parrot the opposite and to do so while the truth stands, naked, in plain sight. Once you can do that, you have absolute control. That’s the core message of...
by Sara Salyers | Mar 24, 2023 | Blog
In 2022, while ‘the nation(s) mourned’ the death of Queen Elizabeth, officially anyway, Scotland had another reason for mourning. Along with the mortal remains of Elizabeth Windsor, the dazzling but entirely English royal pageant, representing an ancient but entirely...
by Peter A. Bell | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog
Republished here with permission Language matters! When discussing important topics, it is important to get the terminology right. For politicians, language matters because they may be speaking for their party or for the government or even for the country. Look at the...
by Dave Llewellyn | Jan 22, 2023 | Blog
Click here to listen to this post Two years ago Mike Fenwick and I had a show on Independence live called TwaAuld Heids. One of our more memorable guests was a farmer from Perthshire called Jim Fairlie. Jim, came out with the (left field at the time ) suggestion that...
