Two well-known social media commentators have made a blistering attack on First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as the General Election campaign gets underway.
Category: Argyll and Bute
SCOTTISH COMPANIES PAID TO KEEP ASYLUM SEEKERS OUT
Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new report reveals that arms multinationals funded by Scottish Enterprise are “key players” benefiting from European Union (EU) policies designed to stop the arrival of economic migrants and forcibly displaced people.
WAR IS A RICH MAN’S GAME …
Hat tip to Jane Porteous
DON ROBERTO AND ME
Complete autonomy for our native land. That what is normal for the 195 countries recognised as full sovereign states by the United Nations should be considered a prayer to be put up, a prize to be fought for, by Scotland, a mature and wealthy nation, is a stain on natural justice. Yet both a prayer and a prize it is and now we have it within our grasp.
BOOK REVIEW: CATCH AND KILL BY RONAN FARROW
Farrow and his producer Rich McHugh were investigating rumours about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct for a routine Nightly News slot for NBC – another day, another news story (all that’s missing is the office bottle), when the word came down that the network didn’t want to run it.
He didn’t know it, but this was the beginning of the blooding of Ronan Farrow, his initiation into the consequences of telling truth to power as well as the opening of a new feminist frontier.
McALEESE SCOLDS BISHOPS AND PROMOTES THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
He is also “a fine person, but merciful hour, sometimes he comes out with stuff that just stops you in your tracks and you think, ‘Ah, seriously Bishop Phonsie?’ Yoga? A bunch of old ladies in lycra with rolled-up mats trying to get their muscles working again? I mean, just give them a break for God’s sake!”