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28 January 2024

Anyone watch Mr Bates vs The Post Office - or interested in Marshal Petain's "betrayal"of France in 1940?

 Is Paula Vennells the new Nicola Sturgeon? And how does Alister Jack stack up against Marshal Petain?


For a clear statement of the comparison between Vennells and Sturgeon in point of public spiritedness, charity, compassion and long-term intelligence, I recommend this thoughtful analysis, as it also places Marshal Petain’s 1945 trial for treason to France in the context of the Tory failure to control the Scottish pirate parliament today: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/01/paula-vennells-and-the-snp-beware-the-sordid-parallels/ 



08 January 2024

Scotland: The Declaration of Arbroath, and the fake analysis which surrounds it

 A film (made in a beautiful location on the Hebridean island of Coll) which explains how many Scottish nationalists manufacture history when the reality does not suit them.

The classic document which offers them an opportunity to do so is one of the most important in Scottish history - but not for the reasons they claim.

Watch the video (and practice your Gaelic) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcS15_hFQL4 

(there is also some beautiful music at the beginning and end)