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Bank holiday reflections from Clootie City

Posted on May 9, 2023May 8, 2023 admin_IndyThoughts

BANK holidays are a novelty to me after a lifetime on the media frontline, and while I am getting used

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Alex Salmond says Alba membership has risen after SNP leadership election

Posted on April 1, 2023 admin_IndyThoughts

Nothing much to add to what I said before, but here’s something you won’t read in the MSM – what

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Humza Yousaf’s kitchen cabinet signals more of the same from the SNP

Posted on March 31, 2023March 30, 2023 admin_IndyThoughts

SO it’s all over now, bar the shouting – the new SNP leader has been installed and he’s surrounded himself

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How ‘fixed’ is SNP leadership contest?

Posted on February 28, 2023February 28, 2023 admin_IndyThoughts

via Substack SO, Nicola Sturgeon has called it a day as Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP and

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What next for Dundee’s Three Js as D C Thomson cuts hundreds of jobs?

Posted on February 10, 2023February 10, 2023 admin_IndyThoughts

I was as shocked as anybody at news that D C Thomson, the company that put the third ‘J’ in

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Unions flexing their reformed muscles … but will it work against an intransigent government?

Posted on December 22, 2022December 21, 2022 admin_IndyThoughts

WHAT a year it’s been, from the musical chairs in Downing Street, to the reshaping of the SNP’s Westminster contingent,

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Could Rishi Sunak take a leaf out of Francis Urquhart’s book?

Posted on November 29, 2022November 30, 2022 admin_IndyThoughts

I CAN barely look at newspapers or news programmes these days – full of politicians, their pals and unelected peers

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Westminster circus is demolishing what’s left of MPs’ reputations

Posted on October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 admin_IndyThoughts

IF my CV showed a job I’d only been in for 44 days before being forced out, I’d be ashamed

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We gotta get out of this place … if it’s the last thing we ever do

Posted on September 26, 2022November 24, 2022 admin_IndyThoughts

IT seems there’s not a day passes but the news gets worse, and our politicians are making it that way.

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Cost of living crisis a ‘looming catastrophe’ as beanz meanz parting with £1 a tin

Posted on September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 admin_IndyThoughts

It’s been a while, but I’ve been completely scunnered by the worsening state of the UK as a handful of

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