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Straight Scotch
http://www.straightscotch.com/
Social observation and political comment from a Scotsman abroad.
Recent Posts
My thoughts on the President Elect…
Yesterday I watched as young and old, black and white, broke down in tears. It felt as though the long awaited rain finally fell upon a dry, parched land. The historical significance of the first Black man reaching the ‘White House’ appea...
Kris Boyd quits - an own goal?
So, in a fit of pique Kris Boyd terminates his International career whilst George Burley remains in charge of the national squad. I read the story on the BBC this morning and unlike Kris Boyd, I suspect how I feel now about the situation is how I wil...
Scotland’s very criminal Justice System.
In previous blogs I’ve highlighted the injustice at the heart of Scotland’s criminal justice system and the apparent lethargy with which politicians and the judiciary themselves address it. I’m so enraged by recent events that IR...
Big Brother Britain
Just what is Prime Minister Gordon Brown thinking of? What’s going on? Britain is acknowledged as being the surveillance society of the western world. There are more CCTV cameras per head of population in Britain than any other nation in the we...
Is there a search engine for blind people?
I’ve been predicting doom and gloom for too long - time for the blogging equivalent of the commercial break. After a few years of doing this I still delight at some of the search terms which bring people to my site - even though no such express...
Forging a Nation - The American identity crisis
Think of England - what do you see in your mind’s eye? Rolling landscapes, villages, warm beer and you lazily lounging on the green at a local cricket match on a Sunday afternoon? Or think of Scotland - do you see mountains, eagles, wilderness...



Interesting and well written. Nice looking theme and catchy name!
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