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- Great bevvy ads of my youth, part two
The regular reader will, of course, recall part one of my occasional series on Great Alcoholic Beverage (“bevvy”) Ads of Our Time, from September 2007.
Today I’m happy to bring you another installment, prompted by a newer campaign for Scotland’s Homecoming, which uses Dougie MacLean’s sentimental song Caledonia (plus Sean Connery, Lulu and others) to help [...]
- Chick hits out at axis, sorry, *kicks* of evil
Scottish football and media personality Chick Young hits out at a shocking tackle during a charity match between a team of Scottish journalists and MPs
- More on the crunch and Scotland
The question is now being widely asked: what does the credit crunch mean for Scottish nationalism?
- Is the crash really Scotland’s “financial Culloden?”
Gordon Brown might be doing well out the crash, but his native Scotland is full of gloom after its major banks are part-nationalised
- 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 [...]
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