Monthly Archives: November 2018

Car News: New Cars

A weekly look at all that’s rotten about car ownership plus some good bits The Los Angeles Motor Show is in full swing. Two things stick out: few saloons are being bought just as in the UK – SUVs everybody’s … Continue reading

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A Heinous Crime

Who are my accusers? Some of my family are Jewish, Uncle Hymie, a Holocaust  surviver, buried in the Jewish section of Edinburgh’s Piershill Cemetery. My entertainment lawyer is Jewish, producer colleagues are all Jewish save one Irishman, writer friends are … Continue reading

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Taming Power

When the new culture, the new society has been established in Scotland we shall look back at all the puerile spats, frantic, inane trolls, unionist fabrications and manufactured disputes and insults with a comforting warmth knowing we surmounted them all. … Continue reading

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Car News: The Japanese Chop

A weekly look at all that’s rotten about car ownership, and some good bits Read any Michael Heseltine owned Haymarket publication devoted to the automobile, either street cars of racing cars, and alert readers will realise how lazy are its … Continue reading

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Car Culture: Colour Choice

A weekly guide to all that’s rotten about car ownership, plus some good bits Choosing the correct colour for your spanking new chariot, inside and out, can be the difference between receiving praise from family and friends, or getting the … Continue reading

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Outlaw King – a review

This exciting film is like a Brueghel canvas, so many interesting things happening at once for the eye to take in you hardly know what to concentrate upon. One unexpected and gratifying surprise: I was proud to see so many … Continue reading

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A Declaration of Independence

PREAMBLE Is there a more auspicious time than now to affix a declaration of Scottish independence upon the village marker post? The line of nations governed by Britain, small, medium and dominions, freed of British authority stretches around the globe; none … Continue reading

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Widows – a review

This is the first film by Steve McQueen that doesn’t have Michael Fassbinder as its star, and five years since his Academy winning 12 Years a Slave. As I discovered, you’re only as good as your last film but you … Continue reading

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Car News – Closures

A weekly guide to all that’s rotten about car ownership plus some good bits 850 redundancies plus supply companies going to the wall is what happens when a tyre company fails to take note of the trend to SUV’s and 4×4 … Continue reading

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Too Clever By Half

ON BEING TOO BLOODY CLEVER BY HALF Or writing screeds on why something is not what it’s not – a satire on rushing to judgement and throwing the first stone The furore that has arisen from the unveiling of Francis Bacon’s … Continue reading

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