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- My, how we laughed
Oh yes, the emails are buzzing around today.
- The clear-up begins
Pictures, top, by yours truly, from inside the City of Manchester stadium last night. More here.
Main picture taken by terry6082 Books, showing the clearup in Piccadilly Square, Manchester, this morning.
My dad and I had a memorable time last night at the Uefa Cup final in Manchester, despite Rangers losing 2-0 [...]
- This’ll be the post-mortem, then
The voice is recovering, the head clearing, the cat is back from under the bed. And we’re left confronting the damned obvious, but often overlooked. A final league table never lies.
The relegated team always remembers the dreadful goal conceded in the last game that condemned them to lower-league football - the one where the midfield [...]
- No, no, no - just don’t say that
I’m often asked: Neil, why are you such a miserable, pessimistic bastard?
Well, it’s like this. Scotland play Italy tomorrow at Hampden park, in Glasgow. Win, and we’re through to the finals of the European Championships - a fitting end to an incredible run of results that has seen us beat World Cup runners-up France in [...]
- Scotland’s continued health
It’s good to see Times columnist Magnus Linklater agree with my earlier post here that it’s better to get sick in Scotland than in England, for the moment. He also spots the conflict of interest that a Nationalist parliament has when it’s spending money it doesn’t have to raise.
But he draws a different conclusion.
“The more [...]
- Here’s to Scotland’s health
Today’s Telegraph splash on Scotland’s plans to abolish prescription charges might sound like Tory bleating, not helped by the paper’s distasteful use of the word “apartheid” to describe differences between the health systems north and south of the border.
But, as a Scot living in London, I’d know where I’d rather fall ill.
The health system in [...]
- Is Scotland really voting Nationalist?
In the Scottish elections today, suspicions are the country will back the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP). The SNP, cleverly, have managed to push their raison d’etre to the back of voters’ minds by only promising a referendum on separation from England in the distant future, rather than as their first act in power.
By [...]
- Grand alliance?
G2 ran a fascinating set of pieces today on the state of the union between Scotland and England. May 1 this year will mark the 300th anniversary of the act of union. Yet, notes Ian Black (another Scot who moved south) there will be no celebration on either side of the border - despite this [...]
- Third degree burns
It’s Burns night*, hence the haggis (right). In Comment is free, Iain MacWhirter hails our fine national dish, but delivers a damning verdict on Robert Burns’ credentials to also be a Scottish national icon.
Burns, thinks MacWhirter, was too ambivalent about Scotland and Scottishness. He’s not a fan of the poetry. And he leaves [...]
- Whacking the Union
David Cox has written a provocative piece on the state of the United Kingdom. With both England and Scotland wanting to split, it seems, could the Scottish parliamentary elections in May prove to be the separation that precedes the divorce?
Nobody down here would, it seems, care much.
“The English have far more cause to do [...]
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