A couple of the qualifying rounds of the men’s and women’s team sprint on Day1 of the World Championships, Chris Hoy Velodrome, Glasgow, Aug 3, 2023

Along the tow path on the Forth & Clyde Canal from Anniesland to Lambhill.

Just to cheer us all up…… NASA’s data visualisation of polar ice loss. Antarctica is melting…. And latest data shows the circumstances polar ocean currents are stalling. So is Greenland….. The North Atlantic Circulation currents have been slowing down for years now. This will directly effect us as the the North Atlantic Drift that keeps […]The post Ice Loss:...

The People Greater Glasgow Pensioners for Indy Group are a stalwart bunch. I’m a member of the group too. But the core gang – not me – out on their campaign stalls twice a week in the city centre in Argyll St, and every fortnight in Milngavie. But in March they came up with a […]The post At the Governor General’s Glasgow HQ… appeared first on Weegie Fifer.

Now I’m a fan of statistics. But statistics about apples are not the same as statistics about pears. It’s fine to compare apples and pears, but not if you insist that them’s all apples and there’s no pears! Yet that is what happens on the BBC and other mainstream media about NHS A&E Depts. Them’s […]The post When is an A&E Not an A&E? appeared first on Weegie Fifer.

The Unionist parties are already nailing their colours to the mast on basis that you can’t make a general election into a one-issue referendum. Just yesterday, Keir Starmer again rejected the idea of a de facto referendum, saying : This (a de facto independence referendum) was firmly rejected by Starmer in Edinburgh yesterday, who said […]The post Sauce for English ganders but no’ for...

Ipsos Moro released their latest poll on 15th November. They polled nearly 7,000 people aged 16+, including 2,086 Scots. And it has thrown up some interesting findings. Independence Support Starting off with their questions about support for independence. They asked everyone in the poll on whether they’d prefer Scots to vote for independence. Here are […]The post Attitudes to Scottish...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any polling info. With all the media hoo-hah about the “surge” in support for Labour I thought I’d have a look to see how what’s happening here in Scotland compares with down South. Clue? It doesn’t. Current Prediction for Scottish Westminster seats Tories are completely routed from 6 […]The post Polls, polls,...

This week saw the death of Ian Hamilton KC. Ian was one of the four students who, seventy years ago, ‘stole’ the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey and brought it back to Scotland.  The Stone of Destiny is an ancient symbol of Scotland’s monarchy. And for centuries it was used at Scone Abbey in the inauguration […]The post Ian Hamilton KC, Liberator of the Stone of...

A couple of months back, I spent a fair bit of time swotting up on Constitutions, what does and doesn’t get written into a Constitution, and what a Scottish constitution might look like. I hope no-one reading this is asking why I was doing all this swotting because it’s clear that Scotland will need its […]The post A Constitution for Scotland appeared first on Weegie Fifer.

Is this as special a document and idea as some people say it is?  In May and June I presented two Indy Jigsaw programmes on the the theme of creating a Constitution for an independent Scotland. There are moves afoot to to draft a provisional constitution which would safeguard us immediately after independence until we […]The post The Scottish Claim of Right appeared first on Weegie...

Is Land Tax the way forward for Scotland? In the August Indy Jigsaw Show edition, I interviewed to Graeme McCormick about his suggestions for a Scottish land tax. He reckons it would add significant momentum towards a Scottish economy based on well-being criteria. And he calculates that, fully applied, it generates sufficient revenue to provide […]The post Land Tax – The Way Forward...

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In July 2020, Grassroots Oban organised a meeting with Dr Paul Gillespie of University College Dublin. He is a former foreign affairs editor at the Irish Times. At University College Dublin he focusses on research looking at the changing face of Irish / UK relations, especially post-Brexit, the effect of Brexit in Northern Ireland, and […]The post Scotland & Ireland: Compare &...

March 2019: This was written a couple of weeks after the lockdown began. Back then I was presenting the Daytime Show for IndyLive Radio. This appeared on the radio blog. Since then I’ve helped set up IndyLive Podcasters, part of IndependenceLive Media, where I’m reaching many times more people via video programmes and audio podcasts. […]The post Fossil Fuel Divestment appeared...

This is a blog post I wrote for IndyLive Radio. But they have separated from IndependenceLive Media and are going their own way. I’m no longer a presenter with ILR. I’m making video-casts for IndependenceLive Media and podcasts for IndyLive Podcasters. If you’d like to know more about the background to all that read about […]The post Nicola Has Lost Interest in...

Galileo couldn’t do this experiment. No way of creating a vacuum. So Brian Cox did it for him…. Four hundred years later. I love this ….The post The Gravity Experiment Galileo Couldn’t Do appeared first on Weegie Fifer.

Yes Glasgow NW activists take the Big Blue Saltire into George Square, and then later in the week on the COP26 Climate March.

Yes Glasgow NW are out and about in Glasgow this first COP26 week with the Big Blue Saltire. First two places were Trinley Braes under the flight path into Glasgow airport. A friend took photos as he flew in from Barra! Second outing was down on the Clyde to greet the Rainbow Warrior as she sailed upriver to COP26.

At present it is a criminal offence in Scotland to assist in anyone’s death. Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur has just lodged a Bill to change the law and allow assisted dying for adults who are terminally ill. Personally I am very grateful to him and to the cross-party group of MSPs who are supporting […]The post Assisted Dying Bill Lodged at Holyrood appeared first on Weegie...