This is very funny - and TRUE

 TS 007 - The Threepny Opera

See here: Nicola Sturgeon - The Years of Ascent 

A new story from Hamish Gobson about dark deeds in the corridors of power in Scotland today

 TS 006 - The Coronation of King Humza 

Can this be for real??? See what YOU think!

This is the film referred to in the article - about the Hate Crime Act in Scotland, and My Yousaf's dark part in this appalling drama....

Short 04 - Hate Crime Bill (Humza's Bummer, 2020) - YouTube

Enjoy!

The Scottish parliament is NOT democratic

 An interesting new essay on the undemocratic nature of the Scottish parliament, which is one of the reasons Nicola Sturgeon has been able to hang on to power for so long. She forced through laws which are repugnant to most Scots, like the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which was vetoed by the UK parliament recently, and which probably led to Sturgeon's fall:

CapX 09 - After Sturgeon - Holyrood reform

Two really good and amusing posts from the elusive Hamish Gobson about Scottish politics

Re: Nicola Sturgeon's resignation see this: TS 004 - “Be prepared!”

and then this: TS 005 - “Enough in the tank?” 

This is also worth reading

 CSM 03 - Bryson Affair and Robison

About the truth behind this:

Amusing Scottish diary entry....

 Hamish Gobson is the rising star of the Scottish media firmament:

TS 002 - We’re a’ Jock Tamson’s Bairns 

New Book about Scottish politics and the independence battle

 

Link to Amazon here: Hating Tories: How Nicola Sturgeon Got into Government (1970-2007) 

 Very encouraging review in an important website today - ThinkScotland: 

https://thinkscotland.org/2023/01/the-unremarkable-but-relentless-rise-of-nicola-sturgeon/  

Influential people are beginning to wake to the points I am making.

For more infor, see here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BPVLR9ND?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860

Amazing new short video....

 Try this, for size: Short short 02 - Starkey on Sturgeon and Brexit (2022) - YouTube

Fascinating on the difference between England and Scotland in relation both to Nicola Sturgeon and to Brexit.

 

New book about Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Parliament

 

Surprisingly, this is only the second biography of Nicola Sturgeon ever published. The last one came out in 2015, and so has been overtaken by events. More importantly, this book is founded almost exclusively on what the First Minister said in parliament. It is not a collection of media stories, nor a bloodless academic “assessment”. It is the unarguable truth of what the First Minster thought when she was a junior MSP – sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, sometimes hopeful, but always interesting, accurate and fully referenced. Later volumes will cover her later career in parliament.

This book is also interesting an example of a new genre – the citizen’s biography.  That in itself is original. It represents a move away from the traditional focus on “opinion formers” to actual, real-life opinion holders—that is you and me. The new approach makes the reader part of a horizontal conversation, rather than the vertical one we are accustomed to – being told what to think by politicians, journalists or others with an axe to grind, a policy to sell or another brain to wash. This book presents Nicola Sturgeon as she presented herself to parliament. There can be no arguing with that. YOU are in charge of the interpretation.

Ian Mitchell’s Nicola Sturgeon, published last Tuesday, provides a meticulously referenced account of one woman’s performance in the new Scottish parliament. It is also a history of that parliament. It offers the best possible introduction to the “top table” realities of political life in devolved Scotland. It will be essential reading for anyone concerned by the direction Scottish politics is taking today. It is likely to become the standard work on this woman, this parliament and this period.

Scotland’s leading constitutional authority, Alan Page, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, University of Dundee and author of Constitutional Law of Scotland, has commented:

 

“This is a citizen’s biography not just of the current First Minister but also of the Parliament of which she has been a member since it was first elected in 1999. While some of the language and ideas may be new and unfamiliar, Ian Mitchell’s biography deserves reading by all those who care about Scotland’s political and constitutional future.”

 

Perfect reading for the holidays, if you want to step back from events a bit and give some thought to the wider dilemmas that the whole of Great Britain faces in the near future.

You can order through Amazon here: Nicola Sturgeon, vol. 1 - The Years of Ascent, 1970-2007: A Citizen's Biography of a Driven Woman in a Drifting Parliament