Category Society & Sociology
BRITAIN UNDER ATTACK – ANY DAY NOW
The Prime Minister was talking today at Prime Minster’s Questions in the House of Commons. According to Sky News and other mainstream media sources, the Prime Minister reckons that unless we go and do something in Iraq (quite what we should do is not clear), then “ISIS (which stands for ‘Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’) […]
ON POLITICS RECENTLY AND THE MIGRATION OF PEOPLES
A Remarkable Political Result It’s perhaps hard to overstate the significance of the recent elections in England and Wales, and in the European Union (EU) of which of course the UK is a member. For the first time in British history a political party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), with no Members of Parliament, […]
INTERLUDE – A MILITARY MATTER
Before I put up my proposed next post entitled ‘What Are We Supposed To Do About It?’, I felt moved to say something about a BBC News item I saw this evening. I know we can’t wind the clock back. However, when I was minded to join the armed forces (in the 1970s) and then […]
UKIP ON IMMIGRATION
Up here on the Moray Firth the local ‘rag’ is a high quality, award winning weekly newspaper called The Northern Scot; I’ve been reading the fine organ since 1984. In 2012 The Northern Scot won the ‘UK Society of Editors’ Weekly Newspaper of the Year (circulation under 20,000)’ award and it was also voted the […]
THE MOSQUE KITCHEN
The Mosque Kitchen, Potterow, Edinburgh When I took my eldest daughter, Victoria, to visit the University of Edinburgh prior to her applying to study there, we had an excellent lunchtime curry in the Mosque kitchen at Potterow. If the men (Muslims) serving from behind the counter thought that the person in the line couldn’t afford […]
HOUSES CREATE MORE HUMAN HAPPINESS THAN FIELDS
… or so we are told today by Mr Nick Boles, Planning Minister (see link below). I live in the Highlands of Scotland: relatively low population density. Recently I found myself spending a couple of weeks living on the eastern outskirts of Bristol; I went down to arrange my father’s funeral. My experiences in the […]
MORAY: A PIECE OF THE PEACE ACTION
Never too sure about studies like these, but here goes anyway. The Institute for Economics and Peace (oh dear) has just published its first ‘UK Peace Index’ (oh dear, oh dear) and are pleased to inform us residents of Moray that we live in the 3rd most peaceful area of Scotland, after the Orkney Islands […]
Moraymint Chatter 