Putin - Scotland and nuclear weapons

Thought this might be of interest to you all:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/is-sturgeon-happy-to-be-in-bed-with-putin/ 

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Murder of a member of Parliament

 An important dimension to the murder of Sir Derek Amess is discussed in this article (about the position in Scotland):

CSM 05 - Amess and no Scottish surgeries

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The AUKUS deal and the rule of law

 A must read on Scotland's delicate position in the emerging global architecture, as dictate by English-speaking countries' responses to China's attempt to destroy the rule of law internationally:

CapX 05 - China, the Arctic and Trident 

Sturgeon in Scotland is like Putin - never listens to anything

 Try to substitute Putin and the Duma for Sturgeon and the Scottish parliament when you read this piece:

TCW - Answer the question, Ms Sturgeon

Here is the book referred to:

The Justice Factory (second edition): Can the Rule of Law Survive in Twenty-First Century Scotland?

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Rule of Law and democracy are NOT the same thing - though they ought to work together more than they do

 Very interesting article on the above subject:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/eroding-the-rule-of-law-the-snps-brit-haters/ 

The imperialism of the anti-=imperialists

Check this out:  

https://countrysquire.co.uk/2021/06/16/the-imperialism-of-anti-imperialists/ 

When King Edward said: "I want to pump shit" ...

Chips Channon Diaries

This film is a review of the beautifully written diaries of a waspish insider (American who became and MP and married into the Guinness family) and obsessional social climber, from 1918-38. It includes his visit to the Olympics in Berlin and his impressions of the competitive party-giving by Ribbentrop, Goering and Goebbels (each of which he attended). It goes on to cover Channon's dislike of socialists (except Ramsay MacDonald as ex-socialist) and, most remarkably of all, the night the King came to dinner, and the extraordinary thing he said. I am sure you will enjoy watching - just 35 minutes! 60 - Chips Channon Diaries - ed. Heffer (2021) - YouTube

Elections and the Putin approach to Scottish poltics

 This is what happened when I tried to ask the candidates int his election a few questions: Hustings by Email in Scotland – COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

And this is the latest 5-star review of my book on Amazon:

Jim

5.0 out of 5 stars An important book for anyone wanting to understand how modern Scotland is governed.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2021

Verified Purchase

This is really two books in one, it is Ian Mitchell's 2008 explanation of different systems of law across the globe and an explanation of the development of Scottish law. It is very approachable and no where near as dry as the subject matter would lead you to believe. The final third is a codicil written lat in 2020 that explains the current defects in the Scottish political/legal system. An important book for anyone wanting to understand how modern Scotland is governed.

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Similarity between Peter III and Nicola Sturgeon

 

Reading in bed this morning an Edwardian biography of Peter III of Russia, a tragic figure because of his pro-Prussian obsession (he was also Duke of Holstein), I came upon a sentence describing him which struck me as applying to Nicola Sturgeon: "No stubbornness is so stubborn as that of a feeble mind under the domination of a fixed idea." (Nisbet Bain, Peter III, 1902, p. 43; to Bain and his contemporaries, “feeble” implied “narrow”)

I wish I had conveyed that point as clearly in my own book which, though not on Sturgeon specifically, mentions her a lot and is, in the second half, substantially about the SNP stubborn obsession with a fixed idea. The idea was born in the seventies, nourished in the eighties by Margaret Thatcher, and given an opportunity to come to fruition by Blair, Dewar and the Labour gang who thought it would make them friends in Scotland. Then – horror of horrors – it was rejected by the Scottish people, rather as the Russian nobility rejected the Prussianism of Peter.

Nonetheless, the circumstances have something in common. Let us hope that Sturgeon and the pilot fish that swim about her, catering to her every obsession, come to as abrupt an end as Peter did (though not in the same way: he was beaten to death by Count Orlov in his palace and the rumour put about that he had died of “haemorrhoidal colic”).

My description of the "court" surrounding Sturgeon, and the obsequiousness of its members, which reminds me of the eighteenth century Russian court, with all the corruption but without the talent, can be read here: "THE JUSTICE FACTORY: CAN THE RULE OF LAW SURVIVE IN 21st CENTURY SCOTLAND?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020)

It is not a party-political screed. It has been endorsed by both ends of the political spectrum here: Ian ("Stone of Destiny") Hamilton QC, the renegade nationalist, and Adam Tomkins, who is both an MSP (Tory) and Professor of Constitutional Law in the University of Glasgow. The Foreword is written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and Alan Page, Professor of Public Law at Dundee, who is the author “Constitutional Law of Scotland”, the main reference work, has written an Introduction to Part II.

Details of the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

A Russian Tsar

   

 A Scottish nationalist

Who started the First World War?

Watch a video review of the most recent and authoritative biography of Sir Edward Grey, the man who took Britain to war in 1914 as Foreign Secretary. Considers the question of whose fault the war was and whether the "war guilt" allegation against Germany is fair. Compares the Prussian military militants with the Scottish political militants in Holyrood today in terms of both groups' preference for conflict rather than the negotiated settlement of disputes.

Was the "war guilt clause" in the Versailles peace treaty in 1919 fair in saying "Germany did it"?

Make you own mind up based on this biography of the man who took Britain to war in defence of the treaty rights of neutral Belgium.

At this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QYNgCS_K8Y