Category Politics
ANTI-MUSLIM HOSTILITY
Reading Time: 6 minutes. Abhorrent Racist: Qui, Moi? The Leader of the Labour Party in Scotland is Mr Anas Sarwar; he’s a Muslim, as a matter of fact. In August 2019, Mr Sarwar labelled me “an abhorrent racist” which several newspapers at the time, including ‘The National’ (the Scottish nationalists’ news organ of choice), made […]
SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS 2021
Political Priorities In the last Scottish Parliament elections (2016), most voters in Scotland (53.5%) did not vote for the Scottish National Party (SNP). Listening to the SNP minority-government’s political pronouncements over many years, one could be forgiven for thinking that Scotland was defined by Scottish nationalism. Sure, the SNP is defined by Scottish nationalism (not […]
MR ANAS SARWAR MEMBER OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT
This post reflects advice provided to me by my solicitor, Harper Macleod, and by The Free Speech Union, of which I’m a Gold Member, and other substantial individuals whose opinions I trust and value If you’re reading this post, the assumption is that you’re conducting ‘background checks’ on me, Mark Nash, also known as Moraymint. […]
COVID-19 | A MORAL MAZE
Pressure is mounting to enforce the lockdown-equivalent of super-gluing every citizen in the land to their living room sofa to prevent us all from dying of COVID-19. One has to question the morality of blanket, state-enforced lockdowns. Holding the Contrary View One of the drawbacks of being a lockdown sceptic – I’m one of them […]
COVID-19 | A VERY BRITISH TYRANNY
The principal reason I write about anything at all is to help shape my understanding of topics of interest to me. If in so doing your own understanding of the topic in question is also shaped in some way – possibly not in the same direction as mine – then that’s a good thing. The […]
COVID | AN EARLY CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
At the time of writing, Scotland’s National Clinical Director (who’s a dentist in fact, but there you go) has just told me to ‘get your digital Christmas ready’. How exciting! On Professor Leitch’s Wikipedia page, under ‘Awards and Honours’, Prof Leitch is attributed with being ‘The Grinch who stole Christmas 2020’. We shouldn’t be surprised […]
HSBC BACKS SUPPRESSION OF FREEDOM IN HONG KONG
This is an open letter to Mr Noel Quinn, Group Chief Executive of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). The picture above is Mr Peter Wong, HSBC’s Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive. Dear Mr Quinn It looks almost certain that the Communist Party of China will enact a law which would bypass Hong […]
CORONAVIRUS | POLITICS (STILL) GOING CRAZY
This Covid-19 crisis is certainly flushing out who and what we are as a nation – with an awful lot of road to travel yet. Douglas Ross probably had no choice in resigning as a junior government minister and I respect his decision; he’s a dyed-in-the-wool constituency MP and I admire him for that. However, […]
FREEDOM OF SPEECH | SCOTLAND’S HATE CRIME BILL
Three years ago this month, on Monday 22 May 2017, twenty-two people were massacred, and 139 people were wounded by a suicide bomber at the Manchester Arena. The victims were mainly teenagers and young people. At the time, I wrote a post on my blog challenging the impact of Islam on the British way of […]
CORONAVIRUS | THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
This is the second post in a mini-series of three. In the first post I wanted to scope out what I thought could be the Covid-19 worst-case scenario. In this post I want to build on that theme to understand if the worst-case scenario is more or less likely to unfold. I’ve written this in […]
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