Monthly Archives: October 2021

Killing the Planet

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Grouse Beater

CAPITALISM IS KILLING THE PLANET by George Monbiot There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such … Continue reading →

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COP26 – a Film

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Grouse Beater

This a film you can watch of 90 minute duration on how Climate Change affects indigenous people. The UK based environmental charity the Tairona Heritage Trust today releases the environmental film Aluna, documenting the indigenous South American tribe from the Andes, … Continue reading →

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COP26 – The Facts

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Grouse Beater

This is Grouse Beater’s third article on the planet’s impending dweath if homosapiens do not reduce the speed and ferocity with which we are plundering its resources and fogging up the atmosphere. Remarkable, when it comes to a cross-roads in … Continue reading →

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Scotland That Could Be

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Grouse Beater

The journalist Sean Bell takes some moments to indulge in reverie and some poetic license upon the vision of an ideal Scotland. We, of course, can create a fine land fit for all, if we stop believing the anti-independence propaganda, … Continue reading →

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Referenda Franchise

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Grouse Beater

At least four million Scots were displaced from Scotland owing to the chronic lack of economic opportunities in their own land, often helped to abandon their country of birth by United Kingdom state ‘incentives’, such as the Empire Settlement Acts. This is a grand method … Continue reading →

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Played For Fools

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Grouse Beater

The former First Minister of Scotland, the Right Hon Alex Salmond MP, now leader of the ALBA party reminds us we are still at the mercy of vindictive colonials who think Scotland has to be tamed. This is what London … Continue reading →

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Referendum Blues

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Grouse Beater

By putting all her eggs in one basket, a referendum as the final arbiter, Nicola Sturgeon risks making her mark on Scotland’s history as an all-time loser, for the divisiveness of policies she has appropriated from others and subsequently mismanaged, … Continue reading →

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The Last Duel – a Review

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Grouse Beater

The last time I wrote about Matt Damon was his almost solo performance as a marooned astronaut in ‘The Martian‘. I commented he had a habit of choosing storylines in which his character always gets rescued. In Ridley Scott’s medievil … Continue reading →

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Scotland’s Rights – a Discussion

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Grouse Beater

Very rarely does this site post a video, and usually only when it is tied to an historic event. But this is one occasion when a video is better than the written word. International readers are not all following Grouse … Continue reading →

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England Goes Over the Top

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Grouse Beater

David George Hamilton Frost, Baron Frost, CMG, PC, is a British diplomat, politician and appointed member of the House of Lords serving as Minister of State at the Cabinet Office since 2021. He is also that old-fashioned thing but in … Continue reading →

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