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21 July 2023

Whales in Scotland and the paralysis of the political class

This piece is rather good on Lorna Slater - the Green Goddess of Scotland today - but in reality mutton dressed as cart-horse. She is clearly embarrassed about the intelligence of whales, a number of whom were recently stranded on a beach in the west of Scotland, on a romantic Hebridean isle.

Also our First Minister, Humza Yousaf (also known as “the Hamsta” as he spends his life spinning on a little wheel of insiderism in politics) needs to be unravelled. In the light of the mass stranding of refugee whales trying to get ashore in the Hebrides last weekend, the question arises:  what is the Islamic position on whales?

 

Here are some answers:


https://thinkscotland.org/2023/07/will-continuity-yousaf-stop-whales-getting-the-vote/

 

Enjoy!

 

Empathise!

 

Enthuse!

06 July 2023

THREE new pieces today which might interest the reader wanting to improve their English - about Prigozhin and Bonnie Prince Charlie - Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts - and about Scotland turning anti-bureaucratic

 This the the main one - about Evgeny Prigozhin and Bonnie Prince Charlie:

TS 021 - BPCharlie and upkilting Humza


And this is about Robert Baden-Powell and the Scout movement in real life:

CSM HG 01 - Baden Powell


And here's a bonus track, so to speak, about the Orkney isles and their desire to get out of Scotland - and the Hebrides too. Everyone wants to leave the bureaucratic empire of modern, squalidly nationalist Scotland:

CapX 09 - Orkney and Norway



Enjoy!


Enjoy!


and Enjoy! - respectively!