22 January 2016

Scottish Times

In the interests of shabby self-promotion -- as some of you may have noticed from recent punts on social media, the Scottish edition of the Times has been carrying a few bits and pieces from me of late, most recently a fairly critical, godless look at the emergence of the new anti-abortion group, Don't Stop a Human Heart, and the ailing and somtimes unappealling Scottish religious institutions which have given it birth. 

I've also contributed pieces on the raw, unglamorous perseverance which lies at the heart of the SNP tradition and an extremely uncharitable look at the late, great Secretary of State for Scotland. On a personal basis, this is a splendid opportunity to inflict my outlook and preoccupations on part of the Scottish population which has largely escaped the experience before. You might also think it no bad thing, that the Thunderer north of the Tweed is making a little space for a pro-independence, Nat-sympathetic voice.

I'll be giving my pieces a shameless nudge on Twitter and on the peaty Facebook page. There is always the paywall of doom to contend with, but if you are interested, you can always - in the timeworn phrase - buy a paper.

11 comments :

  1. Think of us - the people who followed you - as the 'wee folk' at Bannockburn.

    You are now Scottish media royalty, and thus can cast us aside...

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    1. {Not to mention the acceptance of Murdoch's 30 silver coins. Or R U doing it for the love of art? Buying the paper? Be thankful I'm not sending my witness to meet with yours, Andrew;-}

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    2. A little from column A, a little from column B.

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  2. "Send Conan the Librarian to where the fighting is thickest," he said.

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    1. The thickest? I spit on the Scotsman's comment pages and as for the Daily Mail? Pah!

      PS Bathsheba gives regards.

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  3. 'You might also think it no bad thing, that the Thunderer north of the Tweed is making a little space for a pro-independence, Nat-sympathetic voice.'

    Well the territory is not quite Mordor for Nats is it - yes certainly The Times is pro-union, but one of RKM's first tweets was to praise Eck and denigrate Cameron, and the presence of a highy redable pro-indy voice does The Times no harm from any perspective.

    Stand out anthology pieces as well, be it said.

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    1. Heh. I now find myself wondering where "Mordor for Nats" would be. What terrain the least fertile? The dark tower of the Express, perhaps? The cruel fief of Cochrane?

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    2. People' Friend I expect.

      http://www.thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/

      They bury dangerous young rads like you in giant embroidered tea cosies.

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