Monthly Archives: November 2018

Car News: New Cars

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 28, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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 →

Posted in Scottish Politics | 66 Comments

Taming Power

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 23, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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 →

Posted in Scottish Independence Referendum, Scottish Politics | 52 Comments

Widows – a review

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Grouse Beater

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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