The next President of the United States is 78, and has already been shot at once while under secret service protection. He happened to turn his head as the bullet flew past him, which almost certainly saved his life. What if the next assassination attempt is successful? The chances are small but, given American history, not that small. Seven of the 46 presidents to date … Continue reading James David Vance – Who Is He Really?
BY HAMISH GOBSON Climate change and the political utility of a “Crisis” Anyone who has followed the development of the windfarm industry in Scotland will have been struck by the effort which the Scottish government puts into further impoverishing both underprivileged city dwellers and all rural ones. The former suffer from artificially high power costs, and the latter from that plus the desecration of their visual environment … Continue reading “Crisis”
BY HAMISH GOBSON As the power of the nationalist wreckers in Holyrood declines, so the prospects for a comparable programme of socialist wrecking in Westminster rise. Many’s the Todday teacup whose soggy leaves have compared Keir Starmer’s greed with that of the seagulls outside the Snorvaig chip shop. My own fronds have been even more outspoken, giving “gannet” whenever the words Reeves and Rayner are … Continue reading How the SNP Dallied with “Participatory Dictatorship”
BY HAMISH GOBSON Ever since Nicola Sturgeon crashed and burned, and Humza Yousaf promised to emigrate, the question of the Union has gone off the boil in Scotland. The Westminster election earlier this year demonstrated that conclusively. But there are still lunatics in the Holyrood asylum so a study of the Scottish source of the Union idea is welcome. Parochial nationalism gives many people who do not … Continue reading The Scottish Origins of the United Kingdom
BY HAMISH GOBSON Anyone curious about what our failed Scottish First Minister of recent memory, Humza Yousaf, is likely to experience when he leaves Britain for Islamic pastures new would be well advised to read a wonderful book recently published by Princeton University Press called A History of the Muslim World: From its origins to the dawn of modernity. The author is Michael Cook, a British … Continue reading Does Humza Yousaf know his Islamic History?
BY HAMISH GOBSON The problem which this past election has revealed is that no party advocates the rule of law as a specific social virtue, even though it underpins almost everything legal that happens in a free society. Without coherent court, police and legal systems, you either have anarchy or tyranny. There is no third way. I mention this also in the context of the … Continue reading Reparations Now! Induced Guilt is Theft
BY HAMISH GOBSON Now that Humble Humza’s world has ended, and Alister Jack has put himself out to pastures new, Scottish politics is heading in a new direction. Since no-one takes Holyrood seriously anymore, the future is green – by which I mean the field of legitimate conflict about the way forward for this country has moved to the green benches of the House of … Continue reading Life in the Highlands, Then and Then
BY HAMISH GOBSON Given that Humza Yousaf’s Hate Crime Act came into force on April Fools’ Day, I thought it might help to put it in context by remembering Scotland’s fascist past. That story has been well told by a St Andrews academic, Gavin Bowd, in an important book called FASCIST SCOTLAND: Caledonia and the Far Right (2014). Anyone who wants to understand the nationalist connection with … Continue reading April Haters Day Has Fascist Past
BY HAMISH GOBSON The piece planned for today had to be postponed after I made an extraordinary discovery which all literate people in Scotland (or anywhere else for that matter) ought to be warned about urgently. I bought a book from Amazon which turns out to have been written using “Artificial Intelligence technology”. Here is what happened. For reasons connected with the open racism at the … Continue reading Is Humza Yousaf Spouting Artificial Intelligence?
BY HAMISH GOBSON Values are eternal, despite the efforts of FDR, Nixon and the likes of Yousaf It is becoming increasingly obvious why the current Scottish government wants to undermine the independence of the judiciary. They are terrified of what a genuinely free court system would do to them if the police would only present their allegations against the several delinquent leaders in a timely … Continue reading Values are Eternal
BY HAMISH GOBSON Why Sturgeon’s clannish conceit is a challenge to democracy Many of those who watched a bit of Nicola Sturgeon and Alister Jack in the Covid show of late will have been struck, as I was, by how accurate Ian Mitchell’s analysis of nationalistic Scottish politics was in the two books he has written on the subject (see foot of this article). His essential … Continue reading Clannish Conceit
BY HAMISH GOBSON Is Paula Vennells the new Nicola Sturgeon? She is undoubtedly one of the most arrogant, untrustworthy, incompetent and conceited women to have flitted across the nation’s consciousness in recent years. Despite that, I think it would be hard to elevate her to the Sturgeon category, for one main reason. Nobody made any money out of the Post Office scandal. All the sub-postmasters’ … Continue reading Paula Vennells & the SNP – Beware the Sordid Parallels
BY HAMISH GOBSON The Rule of Law, Abolition of (Scotland) Bill has been slithering its inglorious way through the Fake Parliament recently, with almost everyone outside opposed to it for one simple reason: it will destroy the independence of the judiciary, and deprive Scotland of the benefits of the rule of law. This is SNP policy. The question is: do the Humzoids understand what they … Continue reading Learning at the Feet of Erdogan & Putin
BY HAMISH GOBSON Humza Yousaf calling Suella Braverman “unfit for public office” seems to me to be a clear case of the pot calling the kettle white. Last Monday’s Herald reported our whiter-than-white First Minister, who thinks it wrong for Scotland to have so many “white” people in senior positions in public life, considers that no wrong was done when his Minister for Net Zero Moroccans, Michael Matheson, … Continue reading Yousurf, Matheson & Titillating Footie in Morocco
BY HAMISH GOBSON In 1910 the future President of the SNP wrote to a suffragette campaigning for women’s rights—an objective he strongly supported—saying: “Women should not forget that a ‘cause’ is the means whereby a politician is put into the position of being able to plunder the nation.” In 1936, when already President, he told a journalist that “politics is a matter of rich men … Continue reading Yousaf, Jack & Chinese Emperor Gaozong of Qing
BY HAMISH GOBSON In his play about Scottish politics, the prominent English opinion former, William Shakespeare, had “Three Witches” chant: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.” The Witches were not identified, presumably on data protection grounds, but the Director of a recent production of “the Scottish play” made them look like women, though they all had … Continue reading Fergus Ewing’s Witches Brew
BY HAMISH GOBSON When Greta Thunberg won the Eurovision Sob Contest in 2019, she was the youngest winner of a major compassion tournie since Mother Teresa took gold at the Nobels in Oslo in 1979. Like the “crinklie of Calcutta”, the tear-jerking Swedelette was taken up by the great and the good as if she were a new health recipe. One of the first politicians … Continue reading Beware the likes of Tintin Thunberg & Mrs Murrell
BY HAMISH GOBSON The revelation that Sir Michael Parkinson suffered from “imposter syndrome” would have caused a flutter in the nationalist dovecote were all the doves not so narcissistic. Part of narcissism is factionalism because everyone has to resemble me. Narcissists cannot have allies, only disciples. That is a terrific weakness. The SNP illustrates this perfectly. Does Humza Yousaf suffer from a bad case of narcissistic imposter … Continue reading A Bad Case of Narcissistic Imposter Syndrome?
BY HAMISH GOBSON Robertson is no Charlemagne One of the pleasures of living on an affordable island like Great Todday is that you have time to read for pleasure beyond the river of woke fiction that flows out of the Edinburgh Book Festival these days. Older readers will recall that Peter Cook once referred to the event, in a perfectly clipped “Moarrningsaide accountant” accent, as … Continue reading Angus ‘Jumbo on a Junket’
BY HAMISH GOBSON Even the Archers’ lesbian kiss would be subject to Yousaf’s Legal Services Bill Our anti-affordable “government” in Scotland has been conspicuous by its silence in the matter of the first lesbian kiss to be broadcast on The Archers, the celebrated radio series which has been telling “an everyday story of countryfolk” since 1951. This happened on 10 August yet Humza Yousaf, who has … Continue reading Thongweed & Lugworms
