Freedom and Whisky

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St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh behind Morrison Street crane.  

In the meantime I was still reading the Scotsman and also the rather better Glasgow Herald (as it should still be called). I would visit Sco...

I quickly realised that there was something fundamentally wrong with the New Left position and with socialism in general. Soon I started to ...

I'll start off by giving some personal background which explains how I came to my current political position. My late father came from C...

The other day I was interviewed by Andy Duncan on the  Mises UK  website about "Freedom, Whisky, Scotland, & Secession". I am ...

The day after the referendum I was interviewed by Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute. Here is  a link to the interview  in which we discuss t...

I've used Nikon cameras for over thirty years and am currently considering a new camera purchase. For the time being I'm holding off...

The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England A fascinating history of the territory that was once neither English nor ...

Back in January I was  asked by Keir Martland, of  Mises UK , to give a talk to a Glasgow University student group. Here are the notes that...

I posted a link to my Monday Airdrie photos and now wish to give some observations on the whole Dankula affair.  What was particularly fa...

Last week I attended an event in Edinburgh. After dinner there was discussion about prisons and their role in society. One of our number sug...

You can see my photographs taken at the Count Dankula sentencing over here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/56701337@N00/sets/72157668143762...

I've decided that it's time to restart this blog. The very first post in 2002 started as follows: Welcome to this new blog. The ...

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I wrote this over on the Libertarian Alliance website Nigel gets it. Over the years, opinion polls here show that Scotland is only one o...

I am qualified as a Chartered Secretary. The very nature of the job means that company secretaries tend to be employed in head offices. Th...

I've managed to copy the two comments from e-mail notifications. The first: I doubt the Daily Mail thinks voting for twenty years of soc...

I'm very sorry to say that I accidentally deleted two comments that were awaiting approval. Please resubmit. I think there was reference...

There was a fascinating article from Pete Martin in the Scotsman the other day: With dwindling readerships and financial problems aplenty, ...

On the third of January I attended the funeral of David Reid, one of the founders of the Prestwick Airport Aviation Group. Here is an apprec...

I am please to announce that I've become a supporter of Wealthy Nation , a new Scottish site "in favour of Empowerment, Independenc...

I was having a look at some old posts on this site and came across this 2003 one about Edinburgh's buses. Note the quote from the Scots...