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The aftermath of the independence referendum.
I’m ready to embrace the challenges ahead that independence will bring. The only remaining question is do enough of us want to write our future? That would be No. Currently I’m reading Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy. Every engrossing page … Continue reading
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Tagged Aftermath, Alex Salmond, Better Together, Blood Meridian, Cormack McCarthy, David Cameron, Douglas Carswell, Ed Miliband, George Orwell, Glenda Jackson, Gordon Brown, Great Britain, Groupthink, Holyrood, Independence referendum, Jim Murphy, Johann Lamont, Labour, Mark Reckless, Nazi Salutes, NHS, No Thanks, Orange Order, Russell Brand, Scotland, Scottish Green Party, Scottish Indepedence, Scottish Nationalist Party, Scottish Socialist Party, Thatcherism, Tories, UKIP, Unionist scum, Westminster, Yes
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UKIP’s rise? We’re all to blame.
I voted in the European Elections at my local polling station, the Gairbraid Church Hall in Maryhill. Having never been in it before I fully expected the interior to be transformed into a sparse state of temporary surrogacy, the mildly … Continue reading
Essential Listening: New Wave – The Auteurs (1993)
Recently I’ve been trawling through a lot of nineties music. I couldn’t tell you why I’m doing this, or doing this now. I suspect it’s a subconscious hankering to retain fading memories married with the entirely conscious rationalisation of aging. … Continue reading
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Tagged 90's, Aspiration, Blur, Britpop, En Vogue, Essential Listening, Getting old, Luke Haines, New Wave, Not Britpop, Oasis, Pulp, Teens have bad taste in music, Thatcherism, The Auteurs, TLC
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 
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