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23 October 2024

The lies of the "green" agenda and the real reason why governments tell them

 

As the Scottish government tries to destroy the countryside by covering it in vast windmills, you might like to consider the wider implications of climate bullying: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/10/climate-change-and-the-political-utility-of-a-crisis/ There are major lessons to be learned about the dishonesty of government and the willingness of opposition to sponge up the nonsense they are fed by a government with an axe to grind. Better to take the axe to the turbines!




07 October 2024

How Soviet dissidents carried on while the state was trying to carry them off - to psychiatric prisons. They were brave people!

 

As Britain heads into its “late Soviet period” under Starmer and the rump SNP, a brilliant new book has been published showing how the Russian people defended themselves against their Soviet masters. Hamish Gobson, the sage of Great Todday, shines the light of free scholarship on this work in the context of Britain today - see here: https://thinkscotland.org/2024/10/how-the-snp-dallied-with-participatory-dictatorship/ 




Brilliant!