Beyond Indy

Those who are questioning the alleged career-minded and self serving rationale of SNP figures guiding the independence drive from a Scottish Government viewpoint are missing some very basic points. Your assumption dissolves instantly when you consider that many SNP members believe that the party would cease to exist in its current format. The role of...

Independence Debate? The Truth Is Irrelevant

I was consulting on a magazine design and layout several years ago in a central London publisher's open plan office and had a query with an ad so walked across to discuss it with the sales guy who contacted and sold the page to the advertiser. He was finishing a call so I pulled up...

Fun with Pest Calls

I never use my house phone much these days but recently I had cancer and all the calls from the hospital and my GP were coming through the home phone so I scramble to answer the inevitable PPI call or Ambulance Chaser. On Friday, I tripped up the stairs to get to the phone only...

What the ‘Angry Caller’ missed by a country mile

I have just listened to a livid man on LBC Radio ranting about how he voted Conservative for the first time because he detests all that Jeremy Corbyn stands for. He was obviously emotional in his anger which was aimed at both Teresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. May was a target because she failed in...

Je suis un pragmatiste

Freedom of speech is an absolute right but we should never allow ourselves the mistaken belief that with that absolute right comes some kind of built-in absolution from any consequence. I am perfectly free to walk up to a father in the street and tell him that he and his children are ugly. I might...

An open letter to Michel Platini

(Note: In December 2012 Michel Platini - president of UEFA  - on hearing that his beloved Juventus were to play Glasgow Celtic in draw for the 1st knockout round of the Champions League stated that Juventus would proceed to the last eight - dismissing Celtic. This open letter to him followed)  Dear Mr Platini You were a...

The lunatics are in the hall

At last the NRA have put their official voice the Newtown shooting incident. They had to make a statement in the wake of the slaughter of twenty six small children as the Gun Control debate rages in USA given that the NRA are the leading advocates of every American's right to bear arms. They are...

Apology schmology

So the British government have come clean and taken ownership of the Pat Finucane murder in 1989. David Cameron yesterday made a statement in parliament following a meeting with the murdered lawyer's wife Geraldine and family representatives. Perfectly admirable some might venture. A closure perhaps. It was heading that way before it was reported that...