Monthly Archives: May 2018

Car News: Grilles, Grilles, Grilles

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Grouse Beater

Your weekly guide to all that’s rotten about car ownership, plus some good bits Audi – the car maker whose one-time boss described it in good old Ratner fashion as a “Volkswagen in a dinner suit” and promptly lost his … Continue reading →

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Of Scots, Gaelic and Inglis

Posted on May 26, 2018 by Grouse Beater

Only a submissive nation thinks its indigenous language irrelevant   Memories of youth Many years ago, when I hadn’t enough beard to shave nor hair on my chest, a friend complained about Gaeldom being given a couple of million pounds … Continue reading →

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Car News: Vanishin’ Windaes

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Grouse Beater

A weekly guide to all that’s rotten about car ownership, plus some good bits Given notice of a radically new Peugeot planned for the Paris Motor Show in September – “something very outstanding and radical” – I took a squint … Continue reading →

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The Newspapers Scotland Needs

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Grouse Beater

We don’t have many journalists in the Scottish press. We have a lot of reporters. A good journalist offers insight and the benefit of his experience travelling the world. A reporter tells us this or that happened, and uses press … Continue reading →

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Car News: Fuming

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Grouse Beater

A weekly guide to all that’s rotten in the auto industry, plus some good bits Just as our English cousins thought they’d wrestled £350 million away from the European Union to rejuvenate their ailing National Health Service our friends in the … Continue reading →

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Revenge – a review

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Grouse Beater

The creator of this exploitation movie, a woman, is asking us to think seriously about the pornography of sex but is she asking us to think about the pornography of violence? I’m not so sure. I hae ma doots. The film … Continue reading →

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Scotland’s Constitution

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Grouse Beater

‘More myths than fly around a candle’ (Inspector Clouseau) In a previous essay I attempted to draw attention to the myth promulgated by latter-day imperialists that Scotland annulled its parliament and sovereignty forever in 1707. (The tediously unreliable Wikipedia also … Continue reading →

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Car News: Jaguar Lay-offs

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Grouse Beater

A weekly guide to all that’s rotten about car ownership, plus some good bits The collapse in new car buying as a result of Brexit and austerity continues. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will not renew the contracts of around 1000 agency … Continue reading →

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Car News: Ford Dumps Cars

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Grouse Beater

Your weekly guide to all that’s rotten in the auto industry, plus some good bits Shock and horror! Ford has surprised industry watchers by announcing it is to end the sale of its entire saloon car line in North America. … Continue reading →

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