People Who Are Wrong

They just are. Says Stendahl, anyway.

 

FOR ALL THE FOOTSOLDIERS : HOW DO YOU FEEL?

A great deal is being written about the star players of the SNP leadership race: "Who should be leader of the SNP? Should it be Humza?  Or Ash? Or should it be Kate?” And most of it isn't an examination of what they propose to do or whether they know how to do it....

Douglas Ross is Wrong.

DOUGLAS ROSS IS WRONG. In a recent article in The National, Douglas Ross proposesing that Holyrood have an Upper House, a House of Lairds in response to “a succession of bad laws passed in Holyrood”. Actually isn't so bad in theory. Numerous democracies around the...

RESOLVE

Resolve When I was a kid, my parents took me to a department store in Glasgow.   There was a Santa’s grotto in the toy section.  We could meet him in person.  At these events, a special ritual is enacted across the Western world.  The parents introduce the child to...

Random Bar Fights : A Gentleman’s Guide

Random Bar Fights : A Gentleman’s GuideAfter many years here in Tokyo, I have only met a handful of Scots. My theory is that while Tokyo is mired in obstinate peacefulness, Scots need debate and disagreement. And anger. They spend months trying to have a decent...

PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG POEM

PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG the person you are arguing with on the netprobably isn’t a paid government trollbrainwashed by mainstream medialost in a rabbit hole echo chamberblinkered by the overton windowtoo left, too right, too centreistcaptured by a sunk cost...