Geneva speech by Ailsa Gray, BSc, LLB (Scots Law): Corporate lawyer / former Non-Executive Director of Highlands and Islands Enterprise [Images added added by way of illustration] Robert Black concluded that Scotland did not enter a voluntary partnership in 1707 but was annexed by a continuing English state – a corporate takeover in all butContinue reading “Scotland a Dependency not a Partner”
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Letter from Denmark: A Tale of Two Speeches
In the week before Christmas a relative of mine had a health scare. This meant several hospital visits, MRI scans, x-rays, blood tests, the list goes on. Prompt action by a competent medical staff at two hospitals saved the day. Observing the doctors and nurses, the ambulances, the technical equipment, I realised how vulnerable these facilities are.Continue reading “Letter from Denmark: A Tale of Two Speeches”
Letter from Denmark: Time to Heal
How long does it take to decolonise your mind? I’m not entirely sure if it takes years, decades or a lifetime. That said, the experience of moving from Scotland to live in a small independent nation, is perhaps an indicator? Some of us now realise that Scotland was not only annexed and occupied, but colonised.Continue reading “Letter from Denmark: Time to Heal”
Letter from Exile: Paddy, Jock and Taffy
Paddy, Jock, and Taffy pictured in late 19th century English propaganda as friends in union with John Bull. “Unionists used variations of these figures to project an idealised image of the harmony and unity that they saw existing inside the Union. The cartoon, entitled, “No Home Rule”…is a classic example of this approach, showing theContinue reading “Letter from Exile: Paddy, Jock and Taffy”
Letter from Denmark: Viking Link
A post from Cameron McNeish caught my eye this week. He wrote, “Scotland’s wild landscapes are being torn up by wind farms and miles upon miles of goose-stepping lines of pylons.” I never really noticed pylons in my 1960s childhood. On bus trips to Troon or the Heads of Ayr the landscape looked pretty much rural and natural. I drank it inContinue reading “Letter from Denmark: Viking Link”
Among the Nations of the World
You’re probably familiar with the story. A young man is forced into exile and slavery by his own siblings. Many years later, those same siblings turn up looking for supplies of food due to famine back home. They no longer recognise the brother they sold into slavery, he is in every aspect a citizen ofContinue reading “Among the Nations of the World”
The Grossest Bribery and Corruption
“English bribes outweighed the mistaken zeal of Scottish patriotism and Jacobitism, united against the measure. “On the 25th of March, 1707, the treaty or union was ratified by the Estates, and on the 22nd of April the ancient Parliament of Scotland adjourned, to assemble no more. On that occasion the Chancellor Scofield made use ofContinue reading “The Grossest Bribery and Corruption”
Letter from Denmark: Three Quarters of an Auld Alliance
The drawback with the outdoor ice-rink at the entrance to Frederiksberg Have (park) is the ice-hockey skates for hire. They have no brakes. But the scene is beautiful in the fading light. A few days ago there was a massive march here. Drone footage on Twitter X followed its entire length. It went from theContinue reading “Letter from Denmark: Three Quarters of an Auld Alliance”
Wha Sae Base as Be a Slave?
There was a time when we Scots could safely have styled our liberated nation on our independent Scandinavian neighbours. They had enlightened social policies, investment in infrastructure, solidarity with decolonised states. Internationally, nations of the wider Nordic Council were respected for their honesty and impartiality. And the Swedish-Finnish region was perceived as an oasis ofContinue reading “Wha Sae Base as Be a Slave?”
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