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Scottish Popular Music
Popular music can never be valid and worthwhile unless it reflects the environment that it comes from … music of any kind should be a working, living, breathing part of a community. Music and culture are like DNA they spread naturally unhindered. The...
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Weedkiller for breakfast
Good morning nothing better than breakfast Something healthy Some breakfast that children enjoys Something healthy Something that is advertised on TV Something healthy Something that we can Trust Something Healthy Some Cereal to add some milk to something...
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English history denied to Children
The Peterloo massacre The Peterloo massacre is the bloodiest clash in British political history yet even those living nearby don’t know about it. “From where I grew up in Children at the school, Great Cheetham Street could walk to where it happened at...
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Scotland for Europe
Now 66% of Scottish voters (excluding don’t knows) support staying in the EU, compared with 62% who voted for remain in the referendum. Scottish National party supporters, 83% wanted to stay in the EU, 66% backed a people’s vote on Brexit and 18% opposed...
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Paris and Tokyo love Trees
Tokyo has made great progress in reducing city temperatures using trees. There are streets in the city centre now with large 20 year old trees spaced every few metres along the pavement. Walking along those streets is delicious. You are out of the direct...
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Stone-Stacking
Stone-stacking has become an art form and a competitive sport. Stacked stones destroys all sense of the wild. Stacks are an intrusion, enforcing our presence on others long after our departure. It’s an offence against the first and most important rule...
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Why Italian bridges fall
Bridges in Italy are falling down In the country of the Colosseum, Roman aqueducts and 1,000-year-old churches, it seems paradoxical that those new bridge structures are crumbling. They have used materials which are destined to deteriorate quickly, like...
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A Ukrainian Film Director
The Ukrainin Film Director Oleg Sentsov has not eaten for 90 days. For nearly three months, the Ukrainian film director has been on a hunger strike in a remote Russian prison, where advocates say he is being held as a political prisoner. Sentsov, 42,...
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The Clydesdale Horse
The Clydesdale Horse is the pride of Scotland and is a native breed which was founded in Lanarkshire, Clydesdale being the old name for the district. The history of the breed dates back from the middle of the 18th century when native horses of Lanarkshire...
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Elvis Presley memorial
Elvis Presley memorial in Australia The Melbourne General Cemetery has been operational since 1852 and houses prestigious monuments to Malcolm Fraser, Sir Robert Menzies and Burke and Wills. For 100 years, the 36-tonne Burke and Wills monument was the...
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Elvis Presley in Scotland
Despite never playing a show outside North America, Elvis fans in Scotland were treated to one fleeting appearance on March 3, 1960. Following the end of his national service in West Germany, Presley flew back to the US with a brief stop-off at Prestwick...
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Industrial Farming
The problem with industrial farming, which uses pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, monocultures and huge fields. And farmers are getting government subsidy to do this. Yes, we should do something about the farming methods being used, but a piecemeal...
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British housing Crisis
1. Amend the Housing Act to make assured tenancies more secure and fairly balanced for both parties to a tenancy contract, implement fair rent controls and make it illegal for letting agents to charge tenants any form of referencing, inventory checks...
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Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You This film shows how easily people will compromise their principles for money – and, more frightening still, how far owners and management will go to create perfectly obedient workers This film is a mind-blowing idea, yet one firmly...
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Edinburgh Festival Jokes
Here are the best Jokes in The Festival this Year “Working at the jobcentre has to be a tense job,” “Knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day.” “I had a job drilling holes for water – it was well boring” “I took out a loan...
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St Bernard of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux. In the year 1111, at the age of 20, Bernard left his home to join the monastic community of Citeaux. His five brothers, two uncles, and some 30 young friends followed him into the monastery. Within four years, a dying community had...
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Rethinking Consumption
Consumption is necessary for wealth creation via production. The two go hand in hand. But as a nation we produce less (northern wastelands) and therefore have been earning less (balance of payments), and have to borrow more (borrowing/asset bubbles),...
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End of Holiday
End of a Holiday As Holidays end we start to plan another. The pleasure in meeting people The People we consider Friends And yet just meet them yearly Yearly on our lovely holiday Annualy Holiday delightful friends Friends that we would love to take home...
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Outsource the Prison System?
Prison Service in the United Kingdom is Suffering under Private Control Starve a public service of (our) funding. Allow it to collapse. Rely on the media to sell privatisation as the solution. Hand the service to corporate private profiteers. Start pumping...
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Legal vs Lawful
Legal vs Lawful Legal, lawful, legitimate are some words that describe things, events, and activities that are permitted by law and do not attract punishment under the law. However, the words legal and lawful are not synonymous as many believe as there...
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The Finnish sniper
Depending on the record, Simo Häyhä was born in 1905 in the farming town of Rautjärvi. Once the Soviet Union was formed and Finland had gained its independence, the town in which he lived found itself to be only a very short distance from the Russian...
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The Scottish origin of "Buddy"
A common use in Scotland is to call someone from Paisley a “Paisley buddy”. “buddy” is a phonetic spelling of the Scots word “body” or person as in “abody”-everybody. In Robert Burns’ song “Comin Through the Rye” it is used in every verse and particularly...
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The Dominican of Order
A community of nuns in Mexico have become the unlikely collaborators in the race to save one of the world's rarest amphibians from extinction, The zoo, along with the Michoacana University of Mexico, a Mexican government fisheries center and a group of...
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Plant more trees in cities
Plant trees - in cities. Planting trees in urban areas is a low cost, low-tech solution to many environmental problems that face our cities. By the year 2050, 70% of the earth's population will live in cities. Some would say that this is a bad thing....
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A death warrant in England
A cannabis anti-epilepsy medication can transform an effect on people who live with the epilepsy. It is prescribed throughout the world yet it is illegal in UK. Now anti-epileptic medication is being confiscated in England. Without this anti-epileptic...