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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
Posted in Transportation
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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
Posted in Scottish Politics
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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
Posted in Uncategorized
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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
Posted in Transportation
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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
Posted in Transportation
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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
Posted in Film review, Scottish Politics
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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
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
Posted in Transportation
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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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