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Star of Caledonia

July 23, 2011
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As Ms Raccoon languishes in the concerned ministrations of those determined to ensure her convalescence is full of fun and frolics, I thought she must need a little Celtic input to stimulate her emotions. A couple of weeks ago it was announced in the Scottish press that a work of public art would be erected [...]

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Annie votes to give up the national teat.

May 6, 2011
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A search is under way in Donald Dewar’s old fiefdom, for the seven men and women that delivered a resounding punch on the nose to the hallowed ground from which the Nu-Labour project was accidentally born. Anniesland, the Glasgow constituency once held by Dewar himself, whose untimely death opened the door to Blair, should have [...]

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Blowback in the Weegie Sewer.

April 17, 2010

I have for some weeks been regaling southern readers with the hitherto hidden tales of corruption, lies, graft, drug taking and gangsterism in the murky depths of Labour’s Glasgow heartlands. It has seemed a fruitless task at times. The Scottish newspapers have been terminally reticent in their reports of the efforts made by the SNP [...]

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In Pursuit of Purcell.

April 7, 2010

John Mason, the SNP member for Glasgow East made another brave attempt at Prime Minister’s Question Time to open the sewer that Stephen Purcell recently crawled out of to inspection by the electorate. He received nothing more than personal abuse from the Prime Minister by way of response. Gordon Brown made no attempt to answer [...]

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WeegieGate – the Plot Sickens.

March 15, 2010

The political sewer formerly known as Glasgow continues to give good headlines to the eternal shame of its ‘good citizens’. For the benefit of southern readers who have been shielded from the unedifying spectacle that is Nu-Labour’s heartland by a compliant Main Stream Media, we shall start with one of the few stories that did [...]

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‘Brown’ Sugar, and other euphemisms.

March 9, 2010

Southern voters might be surprised to learn that the Labour heartlands are not the romanticised ‘green valleys’  surrounding the far from romantic pit villages of the Rhonda Valley that the wind-bag Neil Kinnock liked to promote as the seat of Labour Power. Nor are they the teeming back alleys of Liverpool surrounding the now redundant [...]

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